Ruth Crawford Seeger : a composer's search for American music /
Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is frequently considered the most significant American female composer in this century. Joining Aaron Copland and Henry Cowell as a key member of the 1920s musical avant-garde, she went on to study with modernist theorist and future husband Charles Seeger, writing he...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000, ©1997.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I-Early Years: 1901-1920
- A Minister's Daughter
- An "American Woman Pianist"
- Part II-Chicago: 1921-1929
- The "Wonder City"
- New Ways of Knowing
- "Trees of Sound and Color": Music, 1924-1929
- Part III-New York: 1929-1930
- One West 68th Street
- "The Curves in our friendship"
- Part IV-Europe: 1930-1931
- "In Europe one can work!"
- "Dear Superwoman"
- Part V-New York: 1932-1936
- Homecoming
- "Music as a weapon in the class struggle"
- "A thread unwinding": Music, 1930-1932
- "Composing babies"
- Part VI-Washington: 1936-1953
- Discovering "Unmusical" America
- Lomax Country
- The breath of the singer": Transcriptions
- American folk songs go to school
- Dio's Circus
- A fork in the road
- "Keep the song going": Folk-song arrangements
- "Wading in grace"
- Appendix A.
- Analysis by Ruth Crawford Seeger of the Third and Fourth Movements of the String Quartet.