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Charles Seeger (Mexico City, Mexico, 1886 - 1979) was musicologist, composer, and teacher. Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México) is the name of a megacity located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus (altiplano) at the center of Mexico, about 2,240 metres (7,349 feet) above sea-level, surrounded on most sides...
1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ...
1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ...
A musicologist is someone who studies musicology. ...
A composer is a person who writes music. ...
He graduated from Harvard in 1908, teaching at the Institute of Musical Art in New York from 1921 till 1933, the New School for Social Research from 1931 till 1935, and the University of California Los Angeles from 1957 to 1961. From 1961 till 1971 he was a research professor at the Institute of Ethnomusicology at UCLA. From 1935 to 1953 he held positions in the federal government's Resettlement Administration, Works Projects Administration (WPA), and Pan American Union, including serving as an administrator for the Works Projects Administration Music Project, for which his wife also worked, from 1938 to 1940. He suffered an emotional breakdown in 1918. The Works Progress Administration (later Works Projects Administration, abbreviated WPA), was created on May 6, 1935 with the signing of Executive Order 7034. ...
His first wife was the violinist Constance Edson, they divorced in 1927. One of their sons is Pete Seeger, the folk singer. His second wife was the composer and musician Ruth Seeger (née Ruth Porter Crawford; by her, he had two children who also achieved musical renown, Peggy Seeger and Mike Seeger. Pete Seeger, 1944 Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919 in New York City), almost always known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer and political activist. ...
Ruth Crawford-Seeger (July 3, 1901 in East Liverpool, Ohio - November 18, 1953 in Chevy Chase, Maryland), born Ruth Porter Crawford, was a modernist composer. ...
Peggy Seeger (New York City, New York, June 17, 1935 -) is an American folk singer who also achieved renown in Britain, where she lived for more than 30 years as the wife of songwriter Ewan MacColl. ...
Mike Seeger Mike Seeger (b. ...
He is best remembered for his formulation of dissonant counterpoint. According to ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl, "Seeger played a unique and central role in tying musicology to other disciplines and domains of culture. This collection shows him to be truly a musical 'man for all seasons,' for what comes across most is the many-sidedness of the man." ([1]) Counterpoint is a very general feature of music (especially prominent in much Western music) whereby two or more melodic strands occur simultaneously - in separate voices, either literally or metaphorically (if the music is instrumental). ...
A musicologist is someone who studies musicology. ...
Bruno Nettl is a musicologist and ethnomusicologist. ...
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