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| [369] | mosso e Piu Maestoso - Poco meno mosso - Faster - Slower - Very broadly (larghissimo) - Listesso tempo | |
| D | As a piano piece this work must have been completed before 23 Jun 1923 when HC wrote his father from Berlin that he was working on it "to make it suitable for singing." No vocal version has been found. | |
| M | Pencil sketch essentially complete on 12p, corrections in ink | |
| C | The series of tempo marks for this work takes the top prize among HC's for length, variety of language, and minute concern for the art of indicating tempo changes (15 in 12 pages!). The piece was on the program of his Chicago debut, 28 Feb 1924, with no claim of first performance. Full title there: Irish Legend: The Vision ofAma [sic]. | |
| 370 | The Aeolian Harp For Piano Strings Lento, in improvisatory style | |
| D | [ ca 1923] HC often referred to this work as his "first piano string piece" (but see no. 367) and he sometimes (according to SRC) spoke of its dating from before the 1920s. Yet when he came to introduce this piece on a recording (Folkways FM-3349) he said only that it was written "about 1923." Source (a) bears a dedication to Armitt Brown. | |
| M | (a) Ink copy complete in 30m on 2p (b) Pencil draft complete in 30m on Ip. On verso are 5m of sketches for Scooting (no. 353/4). | |
| P | Sheet music (2p, marked Tempo rubato) copyright 1930 by Walter Quincke (later AMP); R in Piano Music by Henry Cowell (AMP, 1960), plO | |
| C | This is an example of the "piano string" pieces of HC in which the player strokes, plucks, and otherwise sounds the piano strings di- rectly?in this instance suggesting the gentle, murmuring tones of an aeolian harp, or wind harp, set in vibration by the breeze. In 1930-31 HC took a poem written by his father and put it to a melody using this piece as a background (no. 477); that work he later arranged for violin and piano (no. 477a). | |
| 371 | Love Song [for piano] Moderate maestoso | |
| D | [ca 1923?] | |
| M | Pencil draft complete on 4p. Musically distinct from no. 372. | |
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