Ruth Crawford Seeger
2 Ricercare on poems by H. T. Tsiang
for Voice and Piano
Ruth Crawford Seeger
2 Ricercare on poems by H. T. Tsiang
for Voice and Piano
- Instrumentation Piano and Voice
- Composer Ruth Crawford Seeger
- Edition Sheet Music
- Publisher Theodore Presser Company
- Order no. PRES141-40103
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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), and two poems leapt out as dramatically expressing oppression of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie, showing internal class struggle even within immigrant communities. This is the genesis of the songs 'Sacco, Vanzetti' and 'Chinaman, Laundryman. ' Musically, Crawford's rigorous modernism not only serialized pitches, but other elements as well. This explains the slightly surprising title Two Ricercare, a reference to the Renaissance precursor of fugue.
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