Ruth Crawford Seeger

Ruth Crawford was a pioneering subversive in both American music and socioeconomic politics. In 1932 she discovered H. T. Tsiang's polemic poetry in The Daily Worker (a NYC-based Communist journal), a...

For Violin and Piano

For Piano. Soft Cover. Composed DECEMBER, 1930. 5 pages.

Study Score

For Solo Flute or oboe

Four preludes--Nos.6;7;8 and 9--from a large group first published in the New Music Edition. They exhibit Ruth Crawford's earthy; uncompromising use of dissonance coupled with her well- defined musica...

Like Ruth Crawford-Seeger's (1901-1953) THREE CHANTS FOR FEMALE CHORUS, also written in 1930, CHANT, 1930 (for SATB mixed chorus and soprano solo, a cappella) uses a construction of syllables created...

American composer and folk music specialist, Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), was a prominent voice in the emerging modernist aesthetic in the early 20th century, and she became a central member of a...

American composer Ruth Crawford Seeger is best known for her place in developing the modernist aesthetic, and she became a notable figure of a group of American composers called the "ultramoderns." Sh...

American composer Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is best known for her place in developing the modernist aesthetic, and she became a notable figure of a group of American composers called the "ultra...

Among the most intriguing of this pioneering American composer's works, Three Songs on Poems of Carl Sandburg is scored for Contralto with Oboe, Percussion, and Piano, plus an optional orchestra. The...