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Author |
: Judith Tick |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 488 |
Release |
: 2000-02-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195350197 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195350197 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ruth Crawford Seeger by : Judith Tick
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 |
: Judith Tick Professor of Music Northeastern University |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 490 |
Release |
: 1997-08-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198022992 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198022999 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ruth Crawford Seeger : A Composer's Search for American Music by : Judith Tick Professor of Music Northeastern University
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 |
: Ruth Crawford Seeger |
Publisher |
: University Rochester Press |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 158046095X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781580460958 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis "The Music of American Folk Song" and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music by : Ruth Crawford Seeger
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 |
: Ray Allen |
Publisher |
: University Rochester Press |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 158046212X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781580462129 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds by : Ray Allen
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 |
: Joel Sachs |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 619 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190227920 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190227923 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry Cowell by : Joel Sachs
Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music is the first complete biography of one of the most innovative figures in twentieth-century American music. It explores in detail the complexities and impact of his life, work, and teachings.
Author |
: Ellie M. Hisama |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 221 |
Release |
: 2006-11-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521028431 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521028434 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gendering Musical Modernism by : Ellie M. Hisama
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 |
: Judith Tick |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 920 |
Release |
: 2008-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198032038 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019803203X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Music in the USA by : Judith Tick
Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion charts a path through American music and musical life using as guides the words of composers, performers, writers and the rest of us ordinary folks who sing, dance, and listen. The anthology of primary sources contains about 160 selections from 1540 to 2000. Sometimes the sources are classics in the literature around American music, for example, the Preface to the Bay Psalm Book, excerpts from Slave Songs of the United States, and Charles Ives extolling Emerson. But many other selections offer uncommon sources, including a satirical story about a Yankee music teacher; various columns from 19th-century German American newspapers; the memoirs of a 19th-century diva; Lottie Joplin remembering her husband Scott; a little-known reflection of Copland about Stravinsky; an interview with Muddy Waters from the Chicago Defender; a letter from Woody Guthrie on the "spunkfire" attitude of a folk song; a press release from the Country Music Association; and the Congressional testimony around "Napster." "Sidebar" entries occasionally bring a topic or an idea into the present, acknowledging the extent to which revivals of many kinds of music play a role in American contemporary culture. This book focuses on the connections between theory and practice to enrich our understanding of the diversity of American musical experiences. Designed especially to accompany college courses which survey American music as a whole, the book is also relevant to courses in American history and American Studies.
Author |
: Joseph N. Straus |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:470064079 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis The music of Ruth Crawford Seeger by : Joseph N. Straus
Author |
: Ruth Crawford |
Publisher |
: A-R Editions, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 98 |
Release |
: 1996-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780895793263 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0895793261 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Music for Small Ochestra (1926); Suite No. 2 for Four Strings and Piano (1929) by : Ruth Crawford
Author |
: Joseph N. Straus |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2003-12-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521548187 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521548182 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger by : Joseph N. Straus
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.