Ruth Crawford Seeger

Author : Judith Tick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195350197

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Ruth Crawford Seeger by Judith Tick Pdf

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 her masterpiece, String Quartet 1931, not long after. But her legacy extends far beyond the cutting edge of modern music. Collaborating with poet Carl Sandburg on folk song arrangements in the twenties, and with the famous folk-song collectors John and Alan Lomax in the 1930s, she emerged as a central figure in the American folk music revival, issuing several important books of transcriptions and arrangements and pioneering the use of American folk songs in children's music education. Radicalized by the Depression, she spent much of the ensuing two decades working aggressively for social change with her husband and stepson, the folksinger Pete Seeger. This engrossing new biography emphasizes the choices Crawford Seeger made in her roles as composer, activist, teacher, wife and mother. The first woman to win a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in music composition, Crawford Seeger nearly gave up writing music as the demands of family, politics, and the folk song movement intervened. It was only at the very end of her life, with cancer sapping her strength, that she returned to composing. Written with unique insight and compassion, this book offers the definitive treatment of a fascinating twentieth-century figure.

Author : Ray Allen,Ellie M. Hisama
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 158046212X

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Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds by Ray Allen,Ellie M. Hisama Pdf

Offers fresh perspectives on the life and pioneering musical activities of American composer and folk music activist Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-53). This book presents a collection of studies that reveals how innovation and tradition intertwined in surprising ways to shape the cultural landscape of twentieth-century America.

Author : Joseph N. Straus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521548187

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The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger by Joseph N. Straus Pdf

This book is the first to study the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger, widely considered to be the most important American woman composer of this century. Indeed, it is the first full-length analytical study of the music of any woman composer. The book contains extensive technical descriptions of Ruth Crawford Seeger's music, and also considers her in relation to her contemporaries and to the history of women and music.

Author : Ruth Crawford
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780895793263

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Music for Small Ochestra (1926); Suite No. 2 for Four Strings and Piano (1929) by Ruth Crawford Pdf

Author : Ruth Crawford Seeger,Larry Polansky
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 158046095X

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"The Music of American Folk Song" and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music by Ruth Crawford Seeger,Larry Polansky Pdf

This is the first publication of an annotated monograph by the noted composer and folksong scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger. Originally written as a foreword for the 1940 book Our Singing Country, it was considered too long and was replaced by a much shorter version. According to her stepson, Pete Seeger, when the original was not included "Ruth suffered one of the biggest disappointments of the last ten years of her life. It just killed her . . . She was trying to analyze the whole style and problem of performing this music." Along with her children Mike and Peggy Seeger, he has long desired to see this work in print as it was meant to be read. The manuscript has been edited from several varying sources by Larry Polansky, with the assistance of Seeger's biographer Judith Tick. It is divided into two sections: I. "A Note on Transcription" and II. "Notes on the Songs and on Manners of Singing." Seeger examines all aspects of the relationship between singer, song, notation, the eventual performer, and the transcriber. In Section I, Seeger develops a complex and well-organized system of notation for these songs which is meant to be both descritive (transcription as cultural preservation) and prescriptive (she intended that others would be able to perform these songs). In Section II, she provides an interpretive theory for performance of this music, and suggests how performers might make the songs "their own" through a deep knowledge of the original styles. Ruth Crawford Seeger considered this work to be both a major accomplishment and a central statement of her own ideas on the topic. Larry Polansky is Associate Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, and a well-known composer and theorist on American music. Judith Tick is Professor of Music at Northeastern University and author of the first major biography of Ruth Crawford Seeger.

Author : Ellie M. Hisama
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521028431

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Gendering Musical Modernism by Ellie M. Hisama Pdf

This book explores the work of three significant American women composers of the twentieth century: Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer and Miriam Gideon. It offers information on both their lives and music and skillfully interweaves history and musical analysis in ways that both the specialist and the more general reader will find compelling. Ellie Hisama suggests that recognising the impact of a composer's identity on the music itself imparts valuable ways of hearing and understanding these works and breaks important new ground towards constructing a feminist music theory.

Author : Matilda Gaume
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042613484

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Ruth Crawford Seeger by Matilda Gaume Pdf

Author : Ruth Crawford Seeger
Publisher : Garden City : Doubleday
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Children's songs
ISBN : MINN:31951D01406342X

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American Folk Songs for Children in Home, School and Nursery School by Ruth Crawford Seeger Pdf

More than 90 favorite folk songs for children, including ballads, work songs, chants, spirituals, and blues.

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429932882

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The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross Pdf

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Author : Judith Tick Professor of Music Northeastern University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780198022992

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Ruth Crawford Seeger : A Composer's Search for American Music by Judith Tick Professor of Music Northeastern University Pdf

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 her masterpiece, String Quartet 1931, not long after. But her legacy extends far beyond the cutting edge of modern music. Collaborating with poet Carl Sandburg on folk song arrangements in the twenties, and with the famous folk-song collectors John and Alan Lomax in the 1930s, she emerged as a central figure in the American folk music revival, issuing several important books of transcriptions and arrangements and pioneering the use of American folk songs in children's music education. Radicalized by the Depression, she spent much of the ensuing two decades working aggressively for social change with her husband and stepson, the folksinger Pete Seeger. This engrossing new biography emphasizes the choices Crawford Seeger made in her roles as composer, activist, teacher, wife and mother. The first woman to win a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in music composition, Crawford Seeger nearly gave up writing music as the demands of family, politics, and the folk song movement intervened. It was only at the very end of her life, with cancer sapping her strength, that she returned to composing. Written with unique insight and compassion, this book offers the definitive treatment of a fascinating twentieth-century figure.

Author : Bill C. Malone
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780807835104

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Music from the True Vine by Bill C. Malone Pdf

Music from the True Vine

Author : Joel Sachs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199939183

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Henry Cowell by Joel Sachs Pdf

Joel Sachs offers the first complete biography of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American music. Henry Cowell, a major musical innovator of the first half of the century, left a rich body of compositions spanning a wide range of styles. But as Sachs shows, Cowell's legacy extends far beyond his music. He worked tirelessly to create organizations such as the highly influential New Music Quarterly, New Music Recordings, and the Pan-American Association of Composers, through which great talents like Ruth Crawford Seeger and Charles Ives first became known in the US and abroad. As one of the first Western advocates for World Music, he used lectures, articles, and recordings to bring other musical cultures to myriad listeners and students including John Cage and Lou Harrison, who attributed their life work to Cowell's influence. Finally, Sachs describes the tragedy of Cowell's life, being sentenced to fifteen years in San Quentin -- of which he served four -- after pleading guilty to a morals charge that even the prosecutor felt was trivial. Providing a wealth of insight into Cowell's ideas and philosophy, Joel Sachs lays out a much-needed perspective on one of the giants of twentieth-century American music.

Author : David Nicholls
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN : 052142464X

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American Experimental Music 1890-1940 by David Nicholls Pdf

From the end of the nineteenth century a national musical consciousness gradually developed in the USA as composers began to turn away from the European conventions on which their music had hitherto been modelled. It was in this period of change that experimentation was born. In this book, the composer and scholar David Nicholls considers the most influential figures in the development of American experimental music, including Charles Ives, Charles Seeger, Ruth Crawford, Henry Cowell, and the young John Cage. He analyses the music and ideas of this group, explaining the compositional techniques invented and employed by them and the historical and cultural context in which they emerged.

Author : Mary Matilda Gaume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:164780049

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Ruth Crawford Seeger by Mary Matilda Gaume Pdf

Author : Laura Veirs
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781452148588

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Libba by Laura Veirs Pdf

Elizabeth Cotten was only a little girl when she picked up a guitar for the first time. It wasn't hers (it was her big brother's), and it wasn't strung right for her (she was left-handed). But she flipped that guitar upside down and backwards and taught herself how to play it anyway. By age eleven, she'd written "Freight Train," one of the most famous folk songs of the twentieth century. And by the end of her life, people everywhere—from the sunny beaches of California to the rolling hills of England—knew her music. This lyrical, loving picture book from popular singer-songwriter Laura Veirs and debut illustrator Tatyana Fazlalizadeh tells the story of the determined, gifted, daring Elizabeth Cotten—one of the most celebrated American folk musicians of all time.