Nome legal: Seeger, Ruth Porter Crawford
Data de nascimento: 1901-07-03
Data de falecimento: 1953-11-18
Sexo: female
Nacionalidade: USA
Local de nascimento: East Liverpool, Ohio, USA
Local de falecimento: Washington, DC, USA
Locais de residência: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Berlin, Germany
Paris, France
Washington, D.C., USA
Educação: American Conservatory of Music
Ocupações: composer
folk music collector
Relações: Seeger, Charles (husband)
Seeger, Peggy (daughter)
Seeger, Pete (step-son)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425: Ruth Crawford Seeger, née Porter, was born and raised in small towns in the Midwest and Florida to which her father, a Methodist minister, traveled for work. She began piano lessons at the age of 11 and decided to pursue formal music studies in order to work as a piano teacher. In 1921, she entered the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, Illinois. After changing her focus first to becoming a concert pianist, she then chose composition. She is considered both as the most important American woman composer of the 20th century, and as a major figure in the study and preservation of American folk music. She was active as a composer primarily during the 1920s and 1930s and as a folk music specialist from the late 1930s until her death. She was a prominent member of a group of American composers known as the "ultra-moderns," and her work influenced later composers.

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Our Singing Country - A Second Volume Of American… por John A. Lomax

Sheet music (and some folk lyrics without music). More songs collected by Lomax, c. 1941, but in this second volume more than half come with sheet music, plus anecdotes from the folks contributing the songs. Though I probably won't learn more than a couple of these songs (since I neither attend "play parties" or belong to a chain gang), I do feel like it's another national treasure of historical import.

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reader1009 | 2 outras críticas | Jul 3, 2021 |

American Folk Songs for Children por Ruth Seeger

Sheet music (piano and chord suggestions for other instrumental accompaniment)/children's folksongs (with ideas for incorporating in a classroom/storytime setting). Over 90 songs in here, so you're bound to find a few that you like.

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reader1009 | 2 outras críticas | Jul 3, 2021 |

American Folk Songs for Christmas por Ruth Crawford Seeger

Wonderful collection of classic American Christmas folk songs.

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auntieknickers | Jul 15, 2020 |

American folk songs for children : in home, school… por Ruth Crawford Seeger

Ruth Crawford Seeger was a serious scholar of American folk music, who listened obsessively to field recordings of American folk song, and made hundreds of transcriptions, including for the definitive Lomax collections. She was also a brilliant composer in her own right. Finally, she was a mother and a volunteer preschool teacher who had great insight into young children.

She brings all these talents and abilities to her work on this brilliant book. Her choice of songs is superb, and will keep children singing while also keeping adults engaged. She combines her deep understanding of the folk process with her knowledge of preschool education to give you hints and tips for adapting the songs to the children you're working with. The piano accompaniments are simple enough to be playable even by ham-handed people like me -- but the simplicity is deceptive, for in many places she manages to suggest harmonic and rhythmic possibilities that will stretch your musical imagination (and the children's musical imaginations, too!).

My well-worn copy of the book belonged to my mother, and she used it while she was a kindergarten and preschool teacher. Half a century later, I can still use these timeless songs with children with great success. Quite simply, one of the best children's music books you can get.… (mais)

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danrharper | 2 outras críticas | Dec 30, 2012 |

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