The Snows of Fuji-Yama

Henry Cowell wrote the piano piece The Snows of Fuji-Yama[n 1], HC 395, in 1924.

The piece was from Cowell's tone cluster phase and was his first expedition into the foray of Asian-inspired music, using black-key clusters to emphasize a pentatonic scale in F♯ major.[1] He first performed the piece at a concert in the Los Angeles Millennium Biltmore Hotel on November 20, 1926.[2]

See also

Notes
  1. Often is misspelled as "The Snows of Fujiyama".

References

Citations
  1. Sachs (2012), p. 146
  2. The New York Times, November 14, 1926

Sources
  • Sachs, Joel (2012). Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-510895-8
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