Author: Cowell, Henry.
Title: New Music. A Quarterly of Modern Compositions. Volume 14, Number 1. October 1940. ["This Issue Contains Maestoso for Piano by Henry Cowell"].
Description: San Francisco, CA: The New Music Society of California, 1940. 1940. - Folio, 14 inches high by 10-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled orange wraps, titled and decorated in black on the front cover. The edges of the covers are darkened and lightly creased. 7 pages. The top corner of the first page is soiled. Very good.

First edition of Henry Cowell's important periodical. Through "New Music" Cowell, an important composer himself, published scores by modern composers who would otherwise have little opportunity to see their works distributed through the mainstream.

The editor Henry Cowell's own work "Maestoso" is here published in this issue of the periodical he founded. As per Cowell's own biographical notes: "Henry Cowell was born at Menlo Park, California in the year 1897. After having composed over one hundred works without instruction, he studied under Charles Seeger at the University of California, under R. Huntington Woodman at the Institute of Applied Music in New York, and later with a Guggenheim Fellowship under Prof. Erich Von Hornbostel at the University of Berlin. He has composed over seven hundred works for orchestra, chamber combinations, voice, and piano solo; and has been a pioneer in the use of a number of different sorts of new musical materials, although his style is eclectic, and has never been exclusively 'Modernistic' or 'Classical'. He founded New Music in 1927, and is now an editor of this periodical. He has worked toward the furthering of contemporary American and other composers through writing books and articles, forming publication and recording organizations, and organizing concerts... Very good .

Keywords: MUSIC; CLASSICAL; MODERN; MODERNIST; NEW MUSIC; A QUARTERLY OF MODERN COMPOSITIONS; VOLUME 14, NUMBER 1; OCTOBER 1940; HENRY COWELL; MAESTOSO FOR PIANO; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY.

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