Orchestra Bassoon, Clarinet, Contrabass, Contralto voice, Horn, Oboe, Percussion, Piano, Trombone, Trumpet, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello

SKU: PR.11641600S

Composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger. [20 pages of analytic essay]. Study Score. 76 pages. Duration 10 minutes. Merion Music #116-41600S. Published by Merion Music (PR.11641600S).

ISBN 9781491134689. UPC: 680160685271. English. Text: Ryan Carson.

Among the most intriguing of this pioneering American composer’s works, Three Songs on poems of Carl Sandburg is scored for Contralto with Oboe, Percussion, and Piano, plus an optional orchestra. The study score includes an essay introducing Crawford’s unique work in historical contexts as she sought a new musical language accessible to the many, while remaining uncompromisingly avant-garde.

For Piano. By Ruth Crawford Seeger. Solo piano. For piano. New Music Edition. Classical. Solo part. 15 pages. Published by Theodore Presser Company.

By Ruth Crawford Seeger. For Voice. Folk, Children's. 190 pages. Published by Oak Publications.

Chamber Music Piano, Voice

SKU: PR.141401030

Composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger. Sws. Performance Score. 24 pages. Duration 9 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #141-40103. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.141401030).

ISBN 9781491131657. UPC: 680160679997. English. Poems by H.T. Tsiang, originally published in The Daily Worker (1928).

Ruth Crawford was a pioneering subversive in both American music and socioeconomic politics. In 1932 she discovered H.T.Tsiang’s polemic poetry in The Daily Worker (a NYC-based Communist journal), and two poems leapt out as dramatically expressing oppression of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie, showing internal class struggle even within immigrant communities. This is the genesis of the songs “Sacco, Vanzetti” and “Chinaman, Laundryman.” Musically, Crawford’s rigorous modernism not only serialized pitches, but other elements as well. This explains the slightly surprising title TWO RICERCARE, a reference to the Renaissance precursor of fugue.

Orchestra Bassoon, Clarinet, Contrabass, Contralto voice, Horn, Oboe, Percussion, Piano, Trombone, Trumpet, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello

SKU: PR.11641600L

Composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger. [20 pages of analytic essay]. Large Score. Duration 10 minutes. Merion Music #116-41600L. Published by Merion Music (PR.11641600L).

UPC: 680160686346. Text: Ryan Carson.

Among the most intriguing of this pioneering American composer’s works, Three Songs on poems of Carl Sandburg is scored for Contralto with Oboe, Percussion, and Piano, plus an optional orchestra. The study score includes an essay introducing Crawford’s unique work in historical contexts as she sought a new musical language accessible to the many, while remaining uncompromisingly avant-garde.

Orchestra Orchestra

SKU: PR.116415990

Composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger. Edited by Douglas Adams Ryan Carson. Please see extensive historical and editorial notes in the full score. Set of Score and Parts. 36+4+4+4+4+4+2+2+2+2+2+2+ 32+32+20+20+20 pages. Duration 3 minutes. Merion Music #116-41599. Published by Merion Music (PR.116415990).

ISBN 9781491135945. UPC: 680160688128.

RISSO LTY ROSSOLTY is ideal for high school festival orchestras, while still of great interest to college and professional ensembles. Composed in 1939 for a radio show introducing audiences to American folk music, RISSOLTY ROSSOLTY is warmly entertaining yet surprisingly complex. Some elements are reminiscent of both Copland and Ives, and Crawford’s inventiveness is on full display, juggling three different tunes into a mesmerizing polyphonic dance. Complete set of score and parts published.

SKU: SU.91409193

Composed by Christopher Fulkerson. CD (Audio). Subito Music Corporation #91409193. Published by Subito Music Corporation (SU.91409193).

Modernism Forever Volume 2 - Fulkerson, Boulez, Berio, Seeger, Basart, Kalmar, Humel Disc 1 Christopher Fulkerson 1. At the Mountains of Madness for large orchestra - 13:42 2. A Screaming Comes Across the Sky for two antiphonal quartets - 1:49 3. The Scream That Peaks Past Fear (Live) for eight antiphonal voices - 7:15 Pierre Boulez Le Marteu Sans Maitre for alto voice & six instrumentalists Marcia Gronewold, mezzo & Ken Cramer, alto fulte 4. Avant L'artisanat Furieux (Live) 2:10 5. Commentaire I de Bourreaux de Solitude (Live) - 4:42 6. L'artisanat Furieux (Live) - 3:26 7. Commentaire II de Bourreaux de Solitude (Live) - 4:32 8. Bel Edifice et les Presentiments (Live) - 4:31 9. Bourreaux de Solitude (Live)- 3:57 10. Apres L'artisanat Furieux (Live) - 1:33 11. Commentaire III de Bourreaux de Solitude (Live) - 5:20 12. Bel Edifice et les Presentiments: Double (Live) - 9:40 Luciano Berio Cries of London for eight voices 13. These Are the Cries (Live) - 1:13 14. Where Are Ye Fair Maids (Live) - 1:34 15. Good Garlic (Live) - 2:41 16. Some Go Up (Live) - 1:12 17. These Are the Cries, Variant (Live) - 1:24 18. Money Money Money (Live) - 3:46 19. Cry of Cries (Live) - 4:08 Disc 2 Christopher Fulkerson 1. Moys Icos for orchestra - 9:10 2. Remember the Stars (Live) Cantata #3 for STAB soli, trebles, & quartet - 8:17 3. Night Litany (Live) Recital Aria #1 Marcia Gronewold, soloist for mezzo soprano & trio - 5:18 4. Celestial Sixties II (Fragment) - 1:43 5. Capriccio (Live) for viola & piano - 5:18 6. One Winter Sparrow (Live) Elizabeth Appling & the SF Girls Chorus - 1:39 Ruth Crawford Seeger 7. Chant (Live) for treble solo & chorus Alyssa Kingsbury, soprano - 2:34 Robert Basart 8. Stillness and the Night Become (Live) for eight voices. A Christopher Fulkerson Commission - 9:19 Laszlo Kalmar 9. Hora Eius In Eight Movements for three female voices - 15:51 Gerald Humel 10. Et in Terra Pax (Live) for eight voices, a Christopher Fulkerson Commission - 21:21.

Orchestra Orchestra

SKU: PR.11641599L

Composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger. Edited by Ryan Carson Douglas Adams. Please see extensive historical and editorial notes on pages 2-4 of this score. Large Score. 36 pages. Duration 3 minutes. Merion Music #116-41599L. Published by Merion Music (PR.11641599L).

UPC: 680160680085.