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NEW MUSIC EDITIONS

New Music, A Quarterly Publishing of Modern Compositions

Henry Cowell, ed. San Francisco: New Music Society of California: San Francisco (before 1941, large quarto). New York: New Music Society Publisher, American Music Center (after 1941, small quarto). Condition: mostly good to excellent, a few issues only fair.
A scarce large run, 1927-1952, missing only Oct. 1942 and Jan. 1951. 95 issues in all.

This famous quarterly was launched single-handedly in 1927 by Henry Cowell (1897-1965). Cowell, who became one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American music, was already well-established by then as a prolific composer using trailblazing sound combinations and was an indefatigable champion of "ultra-modern" music. The run includes:

1927: Oct - Ruggles

1928: Jan - Rudhyar; Apr - Ornstein/Weisshaus; Jul - Chavez; Oct - Crawford

1929: Jan - Ives; Apr - Weiss; Jul - Copland; Oct - Slonimsky

1930: Jan - Becker; Apr - Ruggles; Jul - Riegger/McPhee; Oct - Webern/Weiss/Chavez

1931: Jan - McPhee; Apr - Antheil; Jul - Brant; Oct - Achron

1932: Jan - Ives; Apr - Schoenberg; Jul - Riegger/Strang; Oct - Crawford/Engel

1933: Jan - Chavez; Apr - Donovan/Hardcastle; Jul - Piston/Fine; Oct - Ives

1934: Jan - Roldan/Ruyneman; Apr - Green; Jul - Ardevol/Caturla/Strang; Oct - Davidenko/Khachaturian/Mossolov/Polovinkin/Veprik

1935: Jan - Creston; Apr - Chavez/Bowles; Jul - Rudhyar/Luening/Heilner; Oct - Ives

1936: Jan - Rozsa; Apr - Harris; Jul - Siegmeister/Brooks; Oct - Chavez

1937: Jan - Bailey/Couper; Apr - Caturla/Stocker; Jul - Luening/Strang; Oct - Finney

1938: Jan - Nancarrow; Apr - Creston; Jul - Cleghorn/Harrison; Oct - Ficher

1939: Jan - Tremblay; Apr - Santa Cruz; Jul - Carvajal/Uribe-Holguin; Oct - Diamond

1940: Jan - Cazden/McKay; Apr - Kerr; Jul - Weber; Oct - Cowell

1941: Jan - Crawford; Apr - Donovan/Kerr; Jul - Strang; Oct - Goldman/Jeminitz

1942: Jan - Bacon; Apr - Luening/Pisk; Jul - Achron

1943: Jan - Paz; Apr - Ruggles; Jul - Cage; Oct - Harrison

1944: Jan - Van Vactor; Apr - Carrillo; Jul - Riegger; Oct - Thomson

1945: Jan - Ruggles; Apr - Carter; Jul - McPhee; Oct - Cowell

1946: Jan - Brown; Apr - Hovhaness; Jul - Dahl/Varèse; Oct - Wolpe

1947: Jan - Gideon; Apr - Thomson; Jul - Sessions; Oct - Cowell/Ruggles/Ives

1948: Jan - Harrison; Apr - Fine/Strongin; Jul - Haines/Bradley; Oct - Becker

1949: Jan - Weber/Perle/Prausnitz; Apr - Kauder; Jul -Babbitt; Oct - Perle

1950: Jan - Toch; Apr - Woronoff; Jul - Shifrin/Feldman; Oct - Berger

1951: Apr - Wolff; Jul - Wilkinson; Oct - Nancarrow

1952: Jan - Monod; Apr - Nowak; Jul - Wen-Chung; Oct - Cowell

The volumes of this quarterly usually sell for $175 to $250 each. We are selling this large run for $12,000.

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