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Holograph manuscript, n.d.
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| Editor
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First edition (reprint)
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| Publisher. Info.
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Los Angeles: W.A. Quincke & Co., 1930.
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| Reprinted
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New York: Associated Music Publishers, 1960. Plate AMP-95611.
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General Information
| Work Title
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Aeolian Harp
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| Composer
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Cowell, Henry
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| Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.
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HC 370
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| Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.
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IHC 1
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| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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Tempo rubato
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| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.
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1923 ca.
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| First Publication.
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1930 - Los Angeles: W.A. Quincke
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| Dedication
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Armitt Brown
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| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Early 20th century
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| Piece Style
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Modern
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| Instrumentation
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piano (strings)
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This is an example of the "piano string" pieces of HC in which the player strokes, plucks, and otherwise sounds the piano strings directly?in this instance suggesting the gentle, murmuring tones of an aeolian harp, or wind harp, set in vibration by the breeze. In 1930-31 HC took a poem written by his father and put it to a melody using this piece as a background (no. 477); that work he later arranged for violin and piano (no. 477a).
