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Carl Ruggles (born Charles Sprague Ruggles; March 11, 1876 – October 24, 1971) 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.
Carl Ruggles (born March 11, 1876, Marion, Mass., U.S.—died Oct. 24, 1971, Bennington, Vt.) was an American composer and painter whose musical works, small in number, are characterized by highly dissonant, nonmetric melodies, wide dynamic range, and rich coloring.
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May 29, 2018 · Ruggles, Carl [Charles Sprague] (b East Marion, Mass., 1876; d Bennington, Vermont, 1971). Amer. composer. Earned living as youth as violinist in Boston th. orchs.
Carl Ruggles (born Charles Sprague Ruggles; March 11, 1876 – October 24, 1971) 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.
Bringing Carl Ruggles's Masterpiece to America The history of Carl Ruggles's greatest orchestral work, Sun-treader;' emphasizes the fragile and dependent nature of the arts and under-scores the importance of personal contacts and public reception in the life of a musical composition. Sun-treader was Ruggles's definitive
Apr 24, 2012 · Carl Ruggles (1876–1971) was an innovative American composer who used “dissonant counterpoint” to fashion a body of work both finely crafted and wrought with emotional power. This reissue includes world-renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas with the Buffalo Philharmonic, the original liner notes plus a rare essay on Ruggles ...
Nov 18, 2011 · This essay explores Carl Ruggles’s creative process in his only work for solo piano, Evocations (1937–43; rev. 1956), as revealed through his editorial collaboration with John Kirkpatrick (1905–91).
Carl Ruggles (born Charles Sprague Ruggles; March 11, 1876 – October 24, 1971) 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.
Though he had virtually stopped composing by the 1920's and early 30's, Ives helped finance concerts for the Pan American Association of Composers—whose more active membership included Edgar Varèse, Wallingford Riegger, Henry Cowell, and Carl Ruggles—and the publication of much of their music in Cowell's New Music edition.
Dec 7, 2021 · The ultra-modernist American composer Carl Ruggles took as the title for one of his most famous orchestral pieces, a phrase from a motto by the early Romantic British poet William Blake which ran, “Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
