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Book Synopsis Carl Ruggles' Sun-treader by : Tucker Robison
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.
Book Synopsis Carl Ruggles' "Sun-treader" by : Robert Tucker Robinson
Download or read book Carl Ruggles' "Sun-treader" written by Robert Tucker Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Carl Ruggles by : Marilyn J. Ziffrin
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 Sun-Treader written by Carl Ruggles and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Intervallic and Structural Cohesion in the Sun-treader of Carl Ruggles ; The Phoenix Rising by : Bruce Edward Miller
Download or read book Intervallic and Structural Cohesion in the Sun-treader of Carl Ruggles ; The Phoenix Rising written by Bruce Edward Miller and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Volume I: Intervallic and Structural Cohesion in the Sun-treader of Carl Ruggles ; Volume II: The Phoenix Rising for Large Orchestra by : Bruce Edward Miller
Download or read book Volume I: Intervallic and Structural Cohesion in the Sun-treader of Carl Ruggles ; Volume II: The Phoenix Rising for Large Orchestra written by Bruce Edward Miller and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Book Synopsis About Carl Ruggles by : Lou Harrison
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:
Book Synopsis A Vast Simplicity by : Stephen P. Slottow
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.
Book Synopsis The Music of Carl Ruggles by : Thomas Elliot Peterson
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:
Book Synopsis The Great Animal Orchestra by : Bernie Krause
Download or read book The Great Animal Orchestra written by Bernie Krause and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "passionate amalgam of science and autobiography" that will leave you hearing -- and seeing -- nature as never before (New York Times Book Review). Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's leading experts in natural sound, and he's spent his life discovering and recording nature's rich chorus. Searching far beyond our modern world's honking horns and buzzing machinery, he has sought out the truly wild places that remain, where natural soundscapes exist virtually unchanged from when the earliest humans first inhabited the earth. Krause shares fascinating insight into how deeply animals rely on their aural habitat to survive and the damaging effects of extraneous noise on the delicate balance between predator and prey. But natural soundscapes aren't vital only to the animal kingdom; Krause explores how the myriad voices and rhythms of the natural world formed a basis from which our own musical expression emerged. From snapping shrimp, popping viruses, and the songs of humpback whales -- whose voices, if unimpeded, could circle the earth in hours -- to cracking glaciers, bubbling streams, and the roar of intense storms; from melody-singing birds to the organlike drone of wind blowing over reeds, the sounds Krause has experienced and describes are like no others. And from recording jaguars at night in the Amazon rain forest to encountering mountain gorillas in Africa's Virunga Mountains, Krause offers an intense and intensely personal narrative of the planet's deep and connected natural sounds and rhythm. The Great Animal Orchestra is the story of one man's pursuit of natural music in its purest form, and an impassioned case for the conservation of one of our most overlooked natural resources-the music of the wild.
Book Synopsis The Music of Carl Ruggles by : Wha-Kyoung Woo
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 Sun-treader written by Carl Ruggles and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Carl Ruggles by : Nina Marchetti Archabal
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:
Book Synopsis Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound by : Leo G. Mazow
Download or read book Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound written by Leo G. Mazow and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Argues that musical imagery in the art of American painter Thomas Hart Benton was part of a larger belief in the capacity of sound to register and convey meaning"--Provided by publisher.
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.
Book Synopsis Carl Ruggles Papers by : Yale University. Music Library
Download or read book Carl Ruggles Papers written by Yale University. Music Library and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
