About this title: Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is frequently considered the most significant American female composer in this century. Joining Aaron Copland and Henry Cowell as a key member of the 1920s musical avant-garde, she went on to study with modernist theorist and future husband Charles Seeger, writing her masterpiece, String Quartet 1931, not long ...
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Description: Fine. 0195137922 NEW/UNREAD BOOK! ! ! Text is clean and unmarked! Publisher's ink mark on outside bottom edge of pages. May have light shelf wear to cover, if any. --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing-- read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780195065091ISBN:0195065093
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Library stamp, overstamped discarded, on title page, label on cpyright page, DJ cover glued to endpages. DJ spine faded, except 1 areas where labels were removed from cplastic cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 488 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Hardcover First Printing
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
Date Published: 1997
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. A Composer's Search for American Music. Very clean and tight ex-library copy. 457 pages. Blue cloth with silver lettering. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780195137927ISBN:0195137922
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Covers show light edge and corner wear. Back cover shows some light dinging and light creasing. Right side page ends show small ding. Clean and unmarked text. No creasing to spine. Tightly bound. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 488 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First printing
Binding: Hardcover--cloth
Publisher: Oxford University Press,, New York, New York:
Date Published: 1997.
ISBN-13:9780195065091ISBN:0195065093
Description: Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2"tall, xiv + 457 pages, blue cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780195065091ISBN:0195065093
Description: Fine. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. "In the end Ruth Crawford Seeger's struggles with her own multiple and divided selves dod not dissolve through ideas....She acted out the tensions inh the paradoxical modernist idiom of dissonant counterpoint that so engrossed her as a young woman-'sounding together while sounding apart. ' That phase from art turned into a leitmotif of her humanity as a woman, whose genius transformed all the music where she found a home. " This book has 457 pages and is ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780195137927ISBN:0195137922
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 234x156 mm. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (472) this is a full biography of the talented american woman composer ruth crawford seeger. she was a prominent member of the american avant-garde composers in the 1920s, then married charles seeger and became very involved in the american folk song movement of the 1930s and 1940s, which also included seeger's son peter and john lomax. the book also discusses the dilemma of a creative woman who was ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OUP USA
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780195137927ISBN:0195137922
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780195065091ISBN:0195065093
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 234x156. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (472) this is a full biography of the talented american woman composer ruth crawford seeger. she was a prominent member of the american avant-garde composers in the 1920s, then married charles seeger and became very involved in the american folk song movement of the 1930s and 1940s, which also included seeger's son peter and john lomax. the book also discusses the dilemma of a creative woman who was ... read more
"Ruth Crawford Seeger was perhaps best know for being Pete Seeger's stepmom, but she was also an extremely talented 20th century composer. There isn't enough written about women's contribution to 20th century music, so I was glad to come across this text."
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