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Carl Ruggles

Carl Ruggles has been played on NTS in shows including 75 Years of Folkways Records, featured first on 22 October 2023. Songs played include Seeger: Andante for strings and Preludes.

Charles "Carl" Sprague Ruggles (March 11, 1876 – October 24, 1971) was an American composer of the American Five group. He wrote finely-crafted pieces using "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music. His method of atonal counterpoint was based on a non-serial technique of avoiding repeating a pitch class until a generally fixed number such as eight pitch classes intervened. He wrote painstakingly slowly so his output is quite small.

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
Seeger: Andante for strings
Charles Ives, Carl Ruggles, Ruth Crawford Seeger
Decca1995
Seeger: Andante for strings
Charles Ives, Carl Ruggles, Ruth Crawford SeegerDecca1995
Discogs
Preludes
Steffen Schleiermacher, Dane Rudhyar, Ruth Crawford, Carl Ruggles, Henry Cowell
MDG2005
Preludes
Steffen Schleiermacher, Dane Rudhyar, Ruth Crawford, Carl Ruggles, Henry CowellMDG2005
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