This book is the first full-length analytical study of the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Crawford was a pivotal figure in the American avant-garde, the so-called 'ultra-modern' movement of the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to her historical significance, as part of the first generation of American composers to step out from the shadow of European models, her music deserves attention for its original and compelling structures and its expressive power. Crawford created new ways of writing melodies, of combining them in heterogeneous juxtaposition, of projecting musical ideas over the largest spans of time, and of structuring rhythm and dynamics alongside pitch. In her innovative musical language, Crawford wrote a small handful of works that should now take their rightful place in the musical modernist canon.
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."..engagingly readable, conveying complex observations with utter clarity....Straus confronts gender-related issues squarely, providing even-handed insights and posing a series of intriguing questions." I.S.A.M. (Institute for Studies in American Music) Newsletter
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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.
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Ruth Crawford was a pivotal figure in American avant-garde music of the 1920s and 1930s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
segmental subsets, chromatic zone, serial melodies, serial melody, intervallic concerns, registral lines, chromatic completion, retrograde symmetry, thirteen semitones, dynamic high points, eleven semitones, inversional balance, free duet, durational intervals, prime ordering, serial rotations, triadic implications, inversional symmetry, pitch inversion, chromatic cluster, twelve pitch classes, musical spans, pitch space, contrasting melodies, dissonant counterpoint Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wind Quintet, Mixed Accents, Piano Study, Prayers of Steel, Rat Riddles, Violin Sonata, New York, Three Sandburg Songs, Three Songs, Carl Sandburg, Henry Cowell, Unkind God, Blanche Walton, Five Songs, Home Thoughts, Alto Oboe, Charles Seeger, Five Sandburg Songs, Great Depression, Piano Preludes, Dane Rudhyar, Flute Oboe Clarinet, Trb Bass, Where Voice New!
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Ruth Crawford was a pivotal figure in American avant-garde music of the 1920s and 1930s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
segmental subsets, chromatic zone, serial melodies, serial melody, intervallic concerns, registral lines, chromatic completion, retrograde symmetry, thirteen semitones, dynamic high points, eleven semitones, inversional balance, free duet, durational intervals, prime ordering, serial rotations, triadic implications, inversional symmetry, pitch inversion, chromatic cluster, twelve pitch classes, musical spans, pitch space, contrasting melodies, dissonant counterpoint Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wind Quintet, Mixed Accents, Piano Study, Prayers of Steel, Rat Riddles, Violin Sonata, New York, Three Sandburg Songs, Three Songs, Carl Sandburg, Henry Cowell, Unkind God, Blanche Walton, Five Songs, Home Thoughts, Alto Oboe, Charles Seeger, Five Sandburg Songs, Great Depression, Piano Preludes, Dane Rudhyar, Flute Oboe Clarinet, Trb Bass, Where Voice New!
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- New Musical Resources by Henry Cowell on 7 pages
- A History of Musical Americanism (Studies in Musicology, No. 19) by Barbara A. Zuck on 5 pages
- Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations by David Lewin on 4 pages
- Charles Seeger: A Life in American Music by Ann M. Pescatello in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Basic Atonal Theory by John Rahn in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- A Question of Balance: Charles Seeger's Philosophy of Music by Taylor Aitken Greer on 7 pages
- Understanding Charles Seeger, Pioneer in Musicology (Music in American Life) by Bell Yung on page 28, and page 129
- Creative Music Composition: The Young Composer's Voice by Margaret Lucy Wilkins on page 185, and Back Matter
- Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Michael Nyman in Front Matter
- Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Keith Potter in Front Matter
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