Luis Hernández Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Henry Cowell is one of my favourite composers. I enjoy his compositions opening the possibilities of the piano, and also his modal and oriental scales based works. I have read many times some parts of his book, one of the bests explaining bitonality, politonality, harmony by seconds, clusters, etc... So, he "tautgh" me many of these concepts. The first 4 bars of this little piece aren't part of one of his compositions. In fact, it is just the beginning of one of the examples in his book (New Musical Resources), the start point to rework it in politonality. And that's what I've done: a few variations, some tonal, some politonal. MP3 Play / pause JavaScript is required. 0:00 0:00 volume > next menu Var Cowell > next PDF Var Cowell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishyfry Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 This is interesting. I like polytonality, but I have yet to learn how to write with it. I had not heard of Henry Cowell before, but it really sounds like I should pick up his book when I get a chance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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