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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tick, Judith (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000, ©1997.
Temas:
Seeger, Ruth Crawford, > 1901-1953.
Seeger, Ruth Crawford, > 1901-1953
Composers > United States > Biography.
Compositeurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
MUSIC > Individual Composer & Musician.
Composers
United States
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.

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