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MUSA 1 Ruth Crawford Music for Small Orchestra (1926); Suite No. 2 for Four Strings and Piano (1929) Edited by Judith Tick and Wayne Schneider |
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| By the late 1920s, before composing her landmark String Quartet 1931, Ruth Crawford had already found a strong and individual voice as an American modernist. This edition presents two important unpublished compositions from that period: Music for Small Orchestra (1926) and Suite No. 2 for Four Strings and Piano (1929). The style of these works, dubbed "post tonal pluralism," shows Crawford handling tonality as an option rather than a given and responding to a wide range of musical, literary, and intellectual currents--including the music of Scriabin, Cowell, Rudhyar, and Ruggles, the poetry of Carl Sandburg, and the religious-philosophical movement know as theosophy. | ||
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