Ruth Crawford Seeger
Ruth Crawford Seeger (born Ruth Porter Crawford; July 3, 1901 – November 18, 1953) was an American composer and folk music specialist. Her music was a prominent exponent of the emerging modernist aesthetic and she became a central member of a g ...
's String Quartet (1931) is "regarded as one of the finest
modernist
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works of the genre".
[Hisama, Ellie M. (2001). ''Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon'', p.4. Cambridge University Press. .] The
composition
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is in four untitled movements.
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Crawford-Seeger, Ruth
1931 compositions
Modernist compositions