Tone cluster

after the devices used by the composer.

The first is called polyharmony, the second tone cluster, and the third counter rhythm.

Our next work is the Sinfonietta, which was written in 1928.

It's based in part on Cowell's first important chamber work, Ensemble, which we're going to hear a little later.

The section titled Tiger is a reflection of William Blake's Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright and may be truly one of Cowell's most dissonant pieces.

The suite for violin and piano In six parts is our next work.

Here, Carol fuses the tone cluster with the language of the Baroque, a musical marriage that succeeds because of the faith that the composer had in his instincts about sound.

In 1925, when he came to California, and founded the California Society for New Music.