Henry Cowell Henry Dixon Cowell (; March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher, teacher Marchioni, Tonimarie (2012)"Henry Cowell: A Life Stranger Than Fiction" ''The Juilliard Journal''. Retrieved 19 June 2022.C ...

's 1920 work ''Fabric'', HC 307, is a short piano piece meant to be an exercise in a form of experimental rhythmic

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he had been developing at the time.

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.Sachs (2012), p. 91

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* 20th-century classical music 1920 compositions Compositions by Henry Cowell Compositions for solo piano Modernist compositions {{Classical-composition-stub