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[[Ruth Crawford Seeger]]'s '''String Quartet''' (1931) is "regarded as one of the finest [[modernism (music)|modernist]] works of the genre".<ref name="Hisama">Hisama, Ellie M. (2001). ''Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon'', p.4. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0-521-64030-X}}.</ref> It was funded by the Guggenheim Foundation and written in the spring of 1931, during Crawford's time in Berlin. It was first published in the New Music Edition in January 1941.
[[Ruth Crawford Seeger]]'s '''String Quartet''' (1931) is "regarded as one of the finest [[modernism (music)|modernist]] works of the genre".<ref name="Hisama">Hisama, Ellie M. (2001). ''Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon'', p.4. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0-521-64030-X}}.</ref> It was funded by the Guggenheim Foundation and written in the spring of 1931, during Crawford's time in Berlin. It was first published in the New Music Edition in January 1941.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gaume |first=Mary Matilda |title=Ruth Crawford Seeger: Her Life and Works |publisher=University Microfilms |year=1973 |pages=147}}</ref>


== Overview ==
== Overview ==
The [[musical composition|composition]] is in four untitled movements.
The [[musical composition|composition]] is in four untitled movements:{{ordered list|Rubato assai|Leggiero|Andante|Allegro possibile|
| list_style_type = upper-roman
}}String Quartet 1931 is Crawford's most frequently performed, recorded


==Sources==
==Sources==

Revision as of 19:17, 18 May 2023

Ruth Crawford Seeger's String Quartet (1931) is "regarded as one of the finest modernist works of the genre".[1] It was funded by the Guggenheim Foundation and written in the spring of 1931, during Crawford's time in Berlin. It was first published in the New Music Edition in January 1941.[2]

Overview

The composition is in four untitled movements:

  1. Rubato assai
  2. Leggiero
  3. Andante
  4. Allegro possibile

String Quartet 1931 is Crawford's most frequently performed, recorded

Sources

  1. ^ Hisama, Ellie M. (2001). Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon, p.4. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-64030-X.
  2. ^ Gaume, Mary Matilda (1973). Ruth Crawford Seeger: Her Life and Works. University Microfilms. p. 147.