Henry Cowell wrote the piano piece The Snows of Fuji-Yama [n 1], HC 395, in 1924.
The piece was from Cowell's tone cluster phase and was his first expedition into the foray of Asian-inspired music, using black-key clusters to emphasize a pentatonic scale in F♯ major. [1] He first performed the piece at a concert in the Los Angeles Millennium Biltmore Hotel on November 20, 1926. [2]
Henry Cowell wrote the piano piece The Snows of Fuji-Yama [n 1], HC 395, in 1924.
The piece was from Cowell's tone cluster phase and was his first expedition into the foray of Asian-inspired music, using black-key clusters to emphasize a pentatonic scale in F♯ major. [1] He first performed the piece at a concert in the Los Angeles Millennium Biltmore Hotel on November 20, 1926. [2]