Charles Sprague Carl Ruggles 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.
Famous for his prickly personality, Ruggles was nonetheless...
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