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Chapter 75 Self-Reliance in American Music: Ives, Seeger, Nancarrow Lecture Overview • American music in the 18th and early 19th centuries • The American spirit of independence, simplicity, and common values: Emerson and Whitman • Charles E. Ives: – – – – life and works theories of manner and substance in music two songs: “Feldeinsamkeit” and “Charlie Rutlage” The Unanswered Question • Ruth Crawford Seeger: – life and works – String Quartet, movement 3 • Conlon Nancarrow: – life and works – Study 3a for player piano • Review The Life of Charles E. Ives (1874–1954) • 1874 born in Danbury, CT, to the family of a musician • 1894–98 attends Yale University, studies music with Horatio Parker • 1898 begins career in the insurance industry in New York • 1912 settles on a farm near Danbury • 1930 retires from the insurance business • 1947 wins Pulitzer Prize for Symphony No. 3 • 1954 dies in New York Principal Compositions by Charles Ives • Orchestra: symphonies (4), tone poems including – The Unanswered Question – Central Park in the Dark – Decoration Day • Songs: about 150, many published in 1922 in the collection 114 Songs • Piano and Organ: sonatas (2), character pieces, Variations on America (organ) • Chorus: works include – Three Harvest Home Chorales – The Celestial Country • Chamber music: violin sonatas (4), string quartets (2), experimental pieces Charles Ives, song “Feldeinsamkeit,” 1897 Ternary form Charles Ives, song “Charlie Rutlage,” c1920 Ternary form Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question, c1906 Through-composed form The Life of Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953) • • • • • • • 1901 born in Ohio, grows up in Jacksonville, Florida 1921 enters the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, studying mainly piano and composition 1929 moves to New York, studies with Charles Seeger 1930 awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the first female composer to be so honored 1932 marries Charles Seeger 1936 the Seegers move to Washington, DC; work in the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress 1953 dies in Chevy Chase, MD Principal Compositions by Ruth Crawford Seeger • Chamber music: includes String Quartet, Violin Sonata, and Woodwind Quintet • Piano: mainly collections of preludes and other short pieces • Songs: several collections on the poetry of Carl Sandburg • Folk song arrangements: collections include Our Singing Country (1941) Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet, 1934, movement 3 (Andante) Through-composed form The Life of Conlon Nancarrow (1912–1997) • 1912 born in Texarkana, Ark. • 1929–32 attends Cincinnati College-Conservatory • 1937–39 fights with Communist forces in the Spanish Civil War • 1940 emigrates permanently to Mexico • 1947 acquires a player piano on which to compose • 1983 awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant • 1997 dies in Mexico City Principal Compositions by Conlon Nancarrow • Player piano: roughly 50 studies • Piano: several short character pieces • Chamber music: includes string quartets (3), chamber orchestra pieces Conlon Nancarrow, Study 3a for player piano, c1948 12-bar blues form Review Key Terms • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Ralph Waldo Emerson William Billings fuguing tune Leopold Stokowski Metropolitan Opera Edward MacDowell shanty Horatio Parker tone cluster Harry Partch Ruth Crawford Seeger Charles Seeger dissonant counterpoint Conlon Nancarrow • polyrhythm • boogie woogie • rhythm-and-blues
