Fabric_(Cowell)

<i>Fabric</i> (Cowell)

Fabric (Cowell)

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Henry Cowell's 1920 work Fabric, HC 307, is a short piano piece meant to be an exercise in a form of experimental rhythmic notation he had been developing at the time.

Bars 3-9 of the piece, showing different shaped note heads for each rhythmic subdivision

Background

It was written in the month of September 1922, with the complexity resulting from Cowell's preoccupation with rhythmic exploration and polyrhythmic tendencies. The piece is dedicated to Georgia Kober.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Sachs (2012), p. 91
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