Includes essays by Sidney Cowell on Henry Cowell’s sexuality and how his pardon was secured, and interview transcripts of Sidney Cowell discussing the prison years.

The Henry Cowell Music Manuscripts consist of holograph scores, sketches, and parts donated by the composer or his wife, Sidney Robertson Cowell, from the 1950s through the 1970s.

This concept (and its multiple illustrations in Cowell’s own music) is responsible for Cowell’s influence on the composers of emerging nations in Asia and Africa.

Different ways of playing the strings are indicated by a letter over each tone, as follows: (A) Indicates a sweep with the flesh of the finger from the lowest string up to the note given. (B) …

Henry Cowell wrote hundreds of piano compositions in which he notated the use of extended technique, where the performer plays with their fists, forearms, and palms, in addition to fingers.

Contemporary music makes almost universal use of materials formerly considered unusable. These mate rials are in some degree acceptable to almost all music lovers, and there is a …

After describing the general background, I will turn to the main topic of the paper, a summary and interpretation of Cowell's theory of scales in "The Nature of Melody" that discusses its …