Carl Ruggles
Born: 11th March 1876, Marion, Mass. United States
Died: 24th October 1971, Bennington, Vermont, United States
Nationality: American
Carl Ruggles was an American composer, painter and teacher. His pieces employed "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by fellow composer and musicologist Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music. His method of atonal counterpoint was based on a non-serial technique of avoiding repeating a pitch class until a generally fixed number of eight pitch classes intervened. He is considered a founder of the ultramodernist movement of American composers that included Henry Cowell and Ruth Crawford Seeger, among others. He had no formal musical education, yet was an extreme perfectionist—writing music at a painstakingly slow rate and leaving behind a very small output.
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Americascapes from Robert Trevino and the Basque National Orchestra
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Four different voices from the melting-pot of early twentieth-century America come together to create a fascinating snapshot of a time of great change and innovation, ranging from melodious Romanticism to uncompromising atonality.
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- Prayer (1)
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- Valse Lente (1)
- Visions (1)
- Vox Clamans in Deserto (1)
- Windy Nights (1)
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