Charles Louis Seeger Jr. (December 14, 1886 – February 7, 1979) was an American musicologist, composer, teacher, and folklorist. He was the father of the...
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Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer-songwriter, musician and social activist. He was a fixture on nationwide radio...
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until his death in 1989. Seeger's father was Charles Seeger (1886–1979), a folklorist and musicologist; her mother was Seeger's second wife, Ruth Porter...
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the French Foreign Legion. Seeger was the brother of Elizabeth Seeger, a children's author and educator, and Charles Seeger, a noted American pacifist...
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1932, she married Charles Seeger. Their children, including Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Barbara, Penny, and older stepson Pete Seeger, knew their mother...
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World War I poet Alan Seeger and musicologist/composer Charles Seeger Jr., and grandfather of folk singers Pete, Peggy and Mike Seeger. He was an influential...
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Crawford Seeger, was a composer. His eldest half-brother, Charles Seeger III, was a radio astronomer, and his next older half-brother, John Seeger, taught...
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Charles Morgan Seeger III (born 1948) is an American attorney, author, and international derivatives and financial markets expert. Since 1992, Mr. Seeger...
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Ruth Crawford Seeger's String Quartet (1931) is "regarded as one of the finest modernist works of the genre". It was funded by the Guggenheim Foundation...
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distinction of economic class yet for him, true folk music was, in Charles Seeger's words, "associated with a lower class" in culturally and socially stratified...
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school division. Elizabeth Seeger was born in 1889, the younger sister of musicologist Charles Seeger and poet Alan Seeger. She attended the Brearley...
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was brought to popularity by Philip Tagg, derived from the work of Charles Seeger.: 189 Musematic repetition ("repetition of musemes": 269 ) is simple...
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English sæ ("sea") and gar ("spear"). Charles Louis Seeger, Sr. (1860–1943), American businessman Charles Louis Seeger, Jr. (1886–1979), American musicologist...
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Steven Charles Seeger (born March 18, 1971) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois...
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We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions is the fourteenth studio album by Bruce Springsteen. Released in 2006, it peaked at number three on the Billboard...
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if not in the exact manner prescribed by Charles Seeger, include Johanna Beyer, John Cage, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Vivian Fine, Carl Ruggles, Henry Cowell...
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her among a group of friends and neighbors (including musicologist Charles Seeger and singer-songwriter Tim Buckley) in front of the house on Hart Avenue...
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advocacy and public education. Founded by folk singer Pete Seeger with his wife Toshi Seeger in 1966, the organization is known for its sailing vessel...
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"dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by fellow composer and musicologist Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music. His method of atonal counterpoint was based...
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Henry Cowell (category Pupils of Charles Seeger)
studying composition with renowned American musicologist and composer Charles Seeger. Seeger later made note of their, "concurrent but entirely separate pursuit[s]...
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Ethnomusicologist Charles Seeger agrees with this, giving an example of how Suya society (in Brazil) can be understood in terms of its music. Seeger notes how...
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at all but a libel on Barbara Villiers and her relations with Charles II". Charles Seeger points out that Pepys' delight at hearing a libelous song about...
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time for Ruth Crawford Seeger and Charles Seeger, and caring for their children, Mike, Peggy, Barbara, and Penny. The Seeger family kids, who were too...
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Folksinger Pete Seeger attended Lunsford's festival in 1935 at the age of 16 in the company of his father, musicologist and composer Charles Seeger, then working...
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required and what was required is not allowed. This is what was done by Charles Seeger in his explanation of dissonant counterpoint, which is a way to write...
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peace and gathering through music. Charles Seeger wanted to do this with the support if diplomacy. Charles Seeger started a chain of ideas, which lead...
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Carl Engel, Gustave Reese, Helen Heffron Roberts, Joseph Schillinger, Charles Seeger, Harold Spivacke, Oliver Strunk, and Joseph Yasser. Its first president...
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Johanna Beyer (category Pupils of Charles Seeger)
late 1920s or early thirties she began studying with Ruth Crawford, Charles Seeger, and Dane Rudhyar and in 1934 took Henry Cowell's percussion class at...
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Musicological Society in New Haven to enlist the support of musicologist Charles Seeger in their endeavor to create a new academic society. This meeting resulted...
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Merriam Bruno Nettl Mirko Ramovš Willard Rhodes Joel Rubin Wilhelm Rust Charles Seeger Laura Alexandrine Smith Michael Tenzer Laxmi Ganesh Tewari Anahit Tsitsikian...
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