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    Ruth Crawford Seeger (born Ruth Porter Crawford; July 3, 1901 – November 18, 1953) was an American composer and folk music specialist. Her music (especially...
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  • Ruth Seeger may refer to: Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953), American modernist composer Ruth Taubert Seeger (1924–2014), American athlete and coach This...
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    Ruth Crawford Seeger's String Quartet (1931) is "regarded as one of the finest modernist works of the genre". It was funded by the Guggenheim Foundation...
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    Ruth Crawford Seeger: a Composer's Search for American Music (1997). Archived May 11, 2023, at the Wayback Machine "David Lewis, Ruth Crawford Seeger...
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    and non-Western music. His mother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, was a composer. His eldest half-brother, Charles Seeger III, was a radio astronomer, and his...
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    musician Ruth Crawford Seeger (née Ruth Porter Crawford). With her he had four children: Mike Seeger (1933–2009), Peggy Seeger (b. 1935), Barbara Seeger and...
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    1989. Seeger's father was Charles Seeger (1886–1979), a folklorist and musicologist; her mother was Seeger's second wife, Ruth Porter Crawford (1901–1953)...
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    stepmother, noted modernist composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, and would have heard Bumgarner perform there. Seeger has credited Bumgarner as his inspiration...
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    Collett studied with teachers including Agathe Backer-Grøndahl. Ruth Crawford Seeger [pupils] Giovanni Bononcini this teacher's teachers Cone (1917–2004)...
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  • Messiaen, Arvo Pärt, Walter Piston, Ned Rorem, Alfred Schnittke, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Igor Stravinsky used serialism only in...
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    8, Episode 15 of the TV Series, The Practice. In 1932, composer Ruth Crawford Seeger wrote the song "Sacco, Vanzetti" on commission from the Society of...
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  • Johanna Beyer (category Pupils of Ruth Crawford Seeger)
    In the late 1920s or early thirties she began studying with Ruth Crawford, Charles Seeger, and Dane Rudhyar and in 1934 took Henry Cowell's percussion...
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  • and his father John A. Lomax, with the transcription being done by Ruth Crawford Seeger. The recording was released in 1942 by the Library of Congress as...
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  • composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger. The song depicts the exploitation of an immigrant Chinese laundry worker. In 1932 Ruth Crawford Seeger composed two...
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  • and Toshi Seeger Tao Rodríguez-Seeger (b. 1972), a contemporary American folk musician; son of Mika Tinya Seeger (ii) Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953)...
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  • Peggy Seeger, and the mother was the composer Ruth Crawford Seeger. Soon after this, Cotten again began working as a maid, this time for Ruth Crawford Seeger...
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    contains a movement with only one note), the third movement of Ruth Crawford-Seeger's String Quartet 1931 (later re-orchestrated as Andante for string...
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  •  United Kingdom 23 April 1882 11 December 1953 Composer, conductor Ruth Crawford Seeger  United States 3 July 1901 18 November 1953 Composer String Quartet...
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    Song: USA. With John A. Lomax. Piano accompaniment by Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pierce, c.1947. Republished as Best Loved...
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  • Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1987) 1901 – Ruth Crawford Seeger, American composer (d. 1953) 1903 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey...
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  • Baptist hymnal from Kentucky. "Bright Morning Stars" appears in Ruth Crawford Seeger's American Folk Songs for Christmas. She credits it to the Archive...
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  • composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, to whom she introduced the music of Scriabin and the ideas of theosophy. Herz’s mentorship was a formative part of Seeger’s journey...
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    Bauer (1882–1955) (two trio sonatas for flute, cello, and piano) and Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953) (Diaphonic suite No. 2 for bassoon and cello). The cello's...
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  • Recordings, 2012 The Sounding Joy: Christmas Songs In and Out of the Ruth Crawford Seeger Songbook - Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2013 Turn Turn Turn with...
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    ultramodernist movement of American composers that included Henry Cowell and Ruth Crawford Seeger, among others. He had no formal musical education, yet was an extreme...
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    not in the exact manner prescribed by Charles Seeger, include Johanna Beyer, John Cage, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Vivian Fine, Carl Ruggles, Henry Cowell, Carlos...
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  • "American Experimental School". These include Charles Ives, Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger, Henry Cowell, Carl Ruggles, and John Becker. The New York School...
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  • has published editions of the works of Johanna Magdalena Beyer, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and an on-line web-book, Janet and Her Dear Pheobe, written by Henry...
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    Music (University Press of Kentucky, 2003), p. 33. Tick, Judith, Ruth Crawford Seeger, A Composer's Search for American Music (Oxford University Press...
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    Musical Modernism, 99. For a complete look at Crawford's life and career, see Judith Tick, Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music (New...
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