The Snows of Fuji-Yama

Henry Cowell wrote the piano piece The Snows of Fuji-Yama, 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.Sachs (2012), p. 146 He first performed the piece at a concert in the Los Angeles Millennium Biltmore Hotel on November 20, 1926.The New York Times, November 14, 1926 __NOTOC__ See also List of solo piano compositions by Henry Cowell

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Sources Sachs, Joel (2012). Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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