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1 online resource (xiv, 457 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
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"Chronological checklist of works": pages 361-371 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-432), discography (pages 433-435) , and index |
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Print version record |
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Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953.
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Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953 fast |
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Composers -- United States -- Biography
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MUSIC -- Individual Composer & Musician.
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Composers
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United States
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1423760662 |
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9781423760665 |
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0195137922 |
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9780195137927 |
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