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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.

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.

References

1. Sachs (2012), p. 91

External links

• Fabric, HC 307: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

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Piano works	Dynamic Motion (1916) The Tides of Manaunaun (1917) Fabric (1920) Six Ings (1922) Aeolian Harp (1923) The Snows of Fuji-Yama (1924) The Banshee (1925) Two Pieces (1928) Sinister Resonance (1930) Rhythmicana (1938)
Concertante	Piano Concerto (1928) Percussion Concerto (1958) Harmonica Concerto (1962)
Orchestral	Variations for Orchestra (1956) Symphony No. 13 "Madras" (1958)
Books	New Musical Resources (1930)
Family	Harry Cowell (father) Clarissa Dixon (mother) Sidney Robertson Cowell (wife)
Pupils	Burt Bacharach John Cage George Gershwin Lou Harrison Ruth Crawford J. H. Kwabena Nketia Irwin Swack ...more...
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