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Fabric (Cowell)

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Bars 3-9 of the piece, showing different shaped note heads for each rhythmic subdivision

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

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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.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Sachs (2012), p. 91
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