Composer Quiz

Carl Ruggles USA [1876-1971]
Group: Ultramodern, American Five
Short description: Atonal, firm, coarse, fundamental, principled. Finely crafted pieces using "dissonant counterpoint" (avoiding repeating a pitch class until a generally fixed number such as eight pitch classes intervened). Wrote slowly. Trial and error (improvised and listened). "Ives without melodies". Dynamic and pitch waves.

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Rualark 2015-05-16 08:27:07	Being one of the large 'ALL' islands, this one Still does not seem to be the most difficult, because modern composer differences sound more pronounced than for example Romantic. [All Modern]
Rualark 2015-02-07 14:44:50	Three modern composers. Holst resembles film music. Ruggles writes for orchestra, sounds atonal, fundamental and has long dynamic and pitch waves. Varèse - noisy, microtonal, sonoristic, rhythmic. (Holst, Ruggles, Varèse)

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