ABSTRACT
“Up to this year, in my experience as a music publisher,” wrote Henry Cowell in 1933, “I have never been offered any work for percussion instruments alone. This season I have been offered fifteen.” 2 Cowell immediately published the two he found most compelling: William Russell’s Fugue for Eight Percussion Instruments, and Edgard Varèse’s lonisation. In 1936 he issued a collection containing six more works. 3
