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Music of the United States of America
[Recent Researches in American Music] [Women Composers]Ruth Crawford
Music for Small Orchestra (1926); Suite No. 2 for Four
Strings and Piano (1929)
Edited by Judith Tick and Wayne Schneider
| A 19/MU 1 (2nd edition) | ISBN 0-89579-326-1 | (1996) xxvi+63 pp. | $47.00 |
| ISBN 978-0-89579-326-3
(13-digit) |
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| MU 1P1 | Music for Small Orchestra parts | $16.00 | |
| MU 1P2 | Suite No. 2 parts | $10.00 |
By the late 1920s, before composing her landmark String Quartet 1931, Ruth Crawford had already found a strong and individual voice as an American modernist. This edition presents two important unpublished compositions from that period: Music for Small Orchestra (1926) and Suite No. 2 for Four Strings and Piano (1929). The style of these works, dubbed "post tonal pluralism," shows Crawford handling tonality as an option rather that a given and responding originally to a wide range of musical, literary, and intellectual currents--including the music of Scriabin, Cowell, Rudhyar, and Ruggles, the poetry of Carl Sandburg, and the religious-philosophical movement known as theosophy.
- Parts
- Music for Small Orchestra: fl.; cl.; bn.; vn. 1; vn. 2; vn. 3; vn. 4; vc. 1; vc. 2; pn.
- Suite No. 2 for Four Strings and Piano: vn. 1; vn. 2; va.; vc.; pn.