Seeger, Ruth Crawford 1901-1953

Overview

Works:	339 works in 912 publications in 2 languages and 18,327 library holdings
Genres:	Musical settings Christmas music Biography Music Scores Notated music Ballads Children's songs History Criticism, interpretation, etc
Roles:	Author, Editor, Arranger, Composer, Performer
Classifications:	M1629.L85, 784.4

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Ruth Crawford Seeger

Ruth Crawford Seeger : a composer's search for American music by Judith Tick( )
Ruth Crawford Seeger's worlds : innovation and tradition in twentieth-century American music( Book )
Gendering musical modernism : the music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon by Ellie M Hisama( Book )
The music of Ruth Crawford Seeger by Joseph Nathan Straus( Book )
Ruth Crawford Seeger : memoirs, memories, music by Matilda Gaume( Book )

The adventures of Tom Thumb : for piano and narrator by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )
Nocturne, violin and piano by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )
Ruth Crawford Seeger : her life and works by Matilda Gaume( Book )
Ruth Crawford Seeger : modernity, tradition, and the making of American music by Ruth Crawford Seeger Centennial Festival( Book )
When, not if : round for three voices by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )
Three songs for contralto, oboe, percussion, and piano by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )
Gender, politics, and modernist music : analyses of five compositions by Ruth Crawford (1901-1953) and Marion Bauer (1887-1955) by Ellie M Hisama( )
Gendering musical modernism by Ellie M Hisama( Book )
Three songs : Rat riddles ; Prayers of steel ; In tall grass by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )
Gendering musical modernism : the music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon by Ellie M Hisama( Book )
Holograph music manuscripts and folk materials by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )
Social and domestic influences of Ruth Crawford's music by Emily Yap Chua( )
Suite for five wind instruments and piano : 1927-29 by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )
Pitch organization and text setting in songs of Charles Seeger, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Henry Cowell by Roger Lee O'Neel( )
Modernism and social consciousness : Seeger, Cowell, Crawford, and the Composers [sic] Collective, 1931-1936 by Jennifer Ashe( )

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Most widely held works by Ruth Crawford Seeger

American folk songs for children in home, school and nursery school : a book for children, parents and teachers by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )

16 editions published between 1948 and 2002 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,410 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"A book for children, parents and teachers."

Folk song: U.S.A. : the 111 best American ballads by John A Lomax( )

28 editions published between 1947 and 1975 in 3 languages and held by 1,135 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

American folk songs for Christmas by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )

9 editions published between 1950 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 671 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of sixty three old-time Christmas folk songs

Our singing country : a second volume of American ballads and folk songs by John A Lomax( )

5 editions published between 1941 and 2007 in English and held by 588 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The music of American folk song" and selected other writings on American folk music by Ruth Crawford Seeger( Book )

16 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 572 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is an annotated monograph by the noted composer and folksong scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger. Originally written as a foreword for the 1940 book Our singing country, it was considered too long and was replaced by a much shorter version

Animal folk songs for children; traditional American songs by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )

9 editions published between 1950 and 1993 in English and Undetermined and held by 539 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of folk songs about animals for voice and piano

Music for small orchestra (1926) ; Suite no. 2 for four strings and piano (1929) by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )

21 editions published between 1993 and 1996 in 3 languages and held by 537 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Portrait by Ruth Crawford Seeger( Recording )

16 editions published between 1997 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 509 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

String quartet 1931 by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )

30 editions published between 1941 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 421 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Chamber and vocal music by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )

13 editions published between 1993 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 408 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

American folk songs for children in home, school and nursery school : a book for children, parents and teachers. by Ruth Crawford Seeger( Book )

22 editions published between 1948 and 2002 in English and held by 375 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

More than 90 favorite folk songs for children, including ballads, work songs, chants, spirituals, and blues

Chamber works by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )

9 editions published in 2000 in 3 languages and held by 365 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The sounding joy : Christmas songs in and out of the Ruth Crawford Seeger songbook by Elizabeth Mitchell( Recording )

5 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 352 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Elizabeth Mitchell celebrates the season with songs drawn from Ruth Crawford Seeger's 1953 songbook American Folk Songs for Christmas. Includes appearances by Dan Zanes, Natalie Merchant, Aoife O'Donovan, Amy Helm, John Sebastian, Happy Traum, and Peggy Seeger

The world of Ruth Crawford Seeger by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )

7 editions published between 2001 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 346 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Best loved American folk songs : (Folk song: U.S.A.) by John A Lomax( )

7 editions published in 1947 in English and Undetermined and held by 278 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Music of Ruth Crawford by Ruth Crawford Seeger( Recording )

2 editions published between 1993 and 2007 in English and held by 266 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lonesome road : the Crawford variations by Larry Polansky( Recording )

5 editions published between 2000 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Four preludes for piano by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )

20 editions published between 1928 and 1998 in 3 languages and held by 249 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Our singing country : folk songs and ballads( )

4 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 226 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Preludes for piano 1-5 by Ruth Crawford Seeger( )

8 editions published in 1993 in 3 languages and held by 219 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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