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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