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Ruth Crawford Seeger

Ruth Crawford Seeger (July 3, 1901 November 18, 1953), born Ruth Porter Crawford, was a modernist composer active primarily during the 1920s and 30s...

Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music (Eastman Studies in Music)

Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds offers new perspectives on the life and pioneering musical activities of American composer and folk music activist Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953). Ruth Crawford developed a unique modernist style with such now-esteemed works as her String Quartet 1931. In 1933, after ...

American Folk Songs for Children, in Home, School and Nursery School: A Book for Children, Parents and Teachers

Ninety of America's best-loved songs, both wordsand music, are accompanied by charming drawings,suggestions for text improvisations, rhythmic playand games. Complete with an easy-to-use index.

Folk Song USA

Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis)

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...

The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger (Music in the Twentieth Century)

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 c...

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...

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...