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American composer Charles Sprague Ruggles (March 11, 1876 - October 24, 1971), better known as Carl, wrote finely-crafted pieces utilizing "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music. Noted for his prickly personality, Ruggles was withal friends sustaining Henry Cowell, Edgard Varese, Charles Ives, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Charles Seeger. One time friend Lou Harrison dissasociated himself from Ruggles when a 1949 performance of Angels because of the older composer's racism, noting specifically the tiffinside at Pennsylvania Station in Future York at which Ruggles shouted anti-anti-semite & anti-antisemitic slurs (Miller & Lieberman 1998, p.44). Ruggles wrote fastidiously slowly and then his output is quite little using compositions including:
His students include James Tenney. Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas has championed Ruggles' music, recording a complete works by owning the Buffalo Philharmonic and occasionally performing Sun-Treader sustaining a San Franscisco Symphony. His method of atonal counterpoint was based on the non-serial technique of avoiding repeating a pitch class until a usually fixed total like eight pitch classes intervened. Ruggles was as well the prolific painter, merchandising hundreds of paintings in the period of his life-time.
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Carl Ruggles Brief biography, photographs, paintings of and by him, works, annotated links, selected discography, and feedback. The Carl Ruggles Papers Title page, collection information, correspondence, programs, art exhibit catalogs, clippings, personal papers, art by himself and others, his music, works by others, his recordings, and music by others. In the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University. Carl Ruggles Listing in AskART artists' directory includes biography, image gallery, listing of relevant books, and other information about his visual artistry and his music. Carl Ruggles Biography and photograph from Presser music publishers. Emphasis on the personality of the composer and the powerful complexity of his music. Ruggles, Carl (née Charles Sprague Ruggles) Provides a brief article and a set of categorized links to other related sites. Genealogical information is provided on a separate page connecting him to a large family with origins in the 15th century. |
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