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Music Library Associationis collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Notes. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 188.72.96.138 on Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:53:20 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions are frequent; and, if the violin lines are hardly melodic in a traditional sense, they are nonetheless lyrically conceived.The piano writing is spare and quite easy to play (the violin part is trickier), and comparatively long note-values for 12tone music make the piece almost easy to read. For one who has had reasonable listening experience with 12-tone-romantic-expressionism, Cloud's Music will pose no problems. The suite will make a superb concert piece, but can also serve wonderfully well to introduce the violin student to dodecaphony. He might have some trouble with frequent large leaps, peculiarly spelled intervals, in addition to numerous metrical and tempo changes; but Brindle, personal as his music is, has seemingly accepted these characteristics as inherent in the technique. Well, maybe they are. Cowell's Homage to Iran is in four movements, the first and third being next to indistinguishable, and only the fourth necessitating the services of a two-handed pianist. Whether this music is any more Persian than the Capriccio Ilalien is Italian only a Persian would know, but I suspect that it takes more than a heap of augmented seconds and a repeated -note-one-line-piano-(imitation Persian drum) part to pay proper homage to Iran. And even if it were authentic stuff, it seems a queer sort of thing for an Occidental to want to turn out.The second movement, called Interlude, is almost 21/2 piano-score pages worth of 16th-note triplets for both instruments, and could just as easily, and probably to better effect, be played on two violins. Mr. Cowell has already written enough music not to feel the need to publish a piece which clearly took just a little more time to write than it does to perform.The final movement is a toccata-like affair with somewhat less built-in monotony than the other three, but it sounds equally spurious.The Haydn Divertimento is a captivating sonata type of piece in four movements dating from the years before the composer had completely broken with the Baroque. Indeed, the Adagio-a are frequent; and, if the violin lines
