Research Catalog

Title

Understanding Charles Seeger, pioneer in American musicology / edited by Bell Yung and Helen Rees ; foreword by Anthony Seeger.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors

• Yung, Bell.
• Rees, Helen, 1964-

Description

xi, 192 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm.

Summary

"A giant in the development of American musicology, Charles Seeger was a scholar-musician active in practically all areas of musical endeavor: performance, composition, theory, criticism, pedagogy, and musicology. This wide-ranging collection provides a historical context for Seeger's ideas by investigating his writings on music, musical research, and the responsibility of the musician and musicologist to society."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Music in American life

Uniform Title

Music in American life.

Subject

• Seeger, Charles, 1886-1979 > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Anthony Seeger -- Introduction / Bell Yung and Helen Rees -- 1. The Dynamics of Dissonance in Seeger's Treatise and Crawford's Quartet / Taylor A. Greer -- 2. The American Composer in the 1930s: The Social Thought of Seeger and Chavez / Leonora Saavedra -- 3. Form, Content, and Value: Seeger and Criticism to 1940 / Robert R. Grimes -- 4. "Temporary Bypaths"? Seeger and Folk Music Research / Helen Rees -- 5. Ruth Crawford, Charles Seeger, and "The Music of American Folk Songs" / Judith Tick -- 6. Seeger's Unitary Field Theory Reconsidered / Lawrence M. Zbikowski -- 7. Anthropology and Musicology: Seeger's Writings from 1933 to 1953 / Nimrod Baranovitch -- 8. From Modern Physics to Modern Musicology: Seeger and Beyond / Bell Yung.

ISBN

0252024931 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

98058104

OCLC

ocm40744119

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries