Download or read book Carl Ruggles written by Marilyn J. Ziffrin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography of the late American composer-artist, Marilyn Ziffrin draws on interviews with those who knew him, on letters and other papers from Ruggles's collection, and on her extensive interviews and developing friendship with him in his final years. She creates a picture of a man who was proud, stubborn, insecure, irascible, prejudiced - and deeply human and lovable.

Download or read book About Carl Ruggles Section Four of a Book on Ruggles Etc With a Portrait written by Lou Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book About Carl Ruggles written by Lou Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Music of Carl Ruggles written by Thomas Elliot Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Carl Ruggles Papers written by Adrienne Scholtz and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book About Carl Ruggles written by Lou Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Analytic Overview of the Music of Carl Ruggles written by Paul Thomas Orkiszewski and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Music of Carl Ruggles written by Thomas E. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Carl Ruggles written by Nina Marchetti Archabal and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Carl Ruggles written by Helen C. Kinder and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Carl Ruggles written by Jonathan D. Green and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1995-11-20 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Ruggles (1876-1971) was the epitome of the New England iconoclast. A composer of the American avant-garde movement, he wrote, in a very concise and dissonant style, a small body of truly unique musical works. He lived to be 95, composing to the very end of his life, but left behind a mere eight sanctioned works which he had rewritten and refined over decades. In the 1920s, he was at the focal point of ultra-modern music-making. Since there is currently a renewed interest in his work, this bio-bibliography is timely and needed, and of interest to scholars, students, and performers. During the 1920s, had Edgard Varese or Charles Ives been asked to name America's greatest living composer, the response would have been Carl Ruggles. Forty years later, such eminent experts on American music as Nicolas Slonimsky, Virgil Thomson, and Aaron Copland would each describe Ruggles as our most technically refined composer. Ruggles, with Varese and Ives, was the standard-bearer of the atonal movement in this century's third decade. With the rise of American realism, he slipped out of the public eye. Recent years have seen a resurgence of performances of his works and research on his music; consequently, there is a need for this timely bio-bibliography.

Download or read book The Music of Carl Ruggles written by Thomas Elliot Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Carl Ruggles in Winona written by Jan Saecker and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Vast Simplicity written by Stephen P. Slottow and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American composer Carl Ruggles (1876-1971) wrote a small number of powerful, finely crafted, intensely dissonant, and utterly individual works. Although sometimes viewed as ?a stubbornly reclusive New Englander, painstakingly creating his uncompromisingly dissonant music in the wilds of Vermont, ?Ruggles was in fact an integral member of a close-knit group of composers known as the ?ultramoderns, ? which included (among others) Charles Seeger, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Henry Cowell, Edgard Varèse, Dane Rudhyar, and Charles Ives (mainly in the role of financier). The ultramoderns were interested in creating a distinctive dissonant American music free of the cultural hegemony of European musical authority and convention. As part of this group, Ruggles formed especially strong ties with Charles Ives__?-each considered the other the world's second-best composer?-and with Charles Seeger, whose theory of dissonant counterpoint exerted a strong influence on Ruggles' evolving compositional style. This study examines the distinctive musical characteristics and compositional procedures that characterize Ruggles' work, and places them in the context of Ruggles?' spiritual aesthetic of the transcendent and the sublime.

Download or read book Carl Ruggles and His Evocations for Piano written by Susan Faulkner and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Music of Carl Ruggles written by Wha-Kyoung Woo and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Carl Ruggles Sun treader written by Tucker Robison and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the music of Carl Ruggles in an effort to reveal some of the ways that he uses melody, harmony and rhythm in the articulation of form. The study proceeds in two main parts. Part one considers Ruggles' work as a whole and attempts to identify the basic principles of form that underlie it. Melody, harmony and rhythm are first examined separately to define their individual characteristics within this music, and then the ways that they are combined in the molding of form are considered. This examination does not present a detailed analysis of each of Ruggles' major works, but, rather, draws examples from those works to illustrate his methods of articulating phrases, establishing cadences, creating drama, and maintaining unity and continuity of material. The second part takes the findings of part one and applies them in a detailed analysis of Sun-treader. The results of this study reveal a pervasive simultaneity of unity and conflict in Ruggles' work. Unity, here, is primarily the result of an elegant balancing of tonal and rhythmic materials. The highly chromatic tonal vocabulary from which both melody and harmony spring is complemented by a largely asymmetrical orientation of rhythm. The combination of these tonal and rhythmic materials creates an environment of almost continuous change. Arching melodic lines constructed on the principle of non-repetition of tone, undulating chromatic harmonic progressions and rhythms of continually varying density and complexity generate a musical wave motion that is central to the music's form. Drama, or conflict, enters this unified environment through the introduction of resistance to the musical norm of change. Repetition, reiteration of tones, and regular progression in many guises energize form by impeding or focusing musical movement, thus offering the opportunity for the generation of tension and release. This simultaneity of conflict and unity--suggesting the human struggle to transcend worldly limitations and grasp the ultimate unity of the cosmos--is offered as a possible key to understanding Ruggles' ideal expression: the expression in music of the sublime.