For the American attorney and author, see Charles M. Seeger.
Charles Seeger
Charles Seeger
Background information
Birth name
Charles Louis Seeger Jr.
Born
(1886-12-14)December 14, 1886 Mexico City, Mexico
Died
February 7, 1979(1979-02-07) (aged 92) Bridgewater, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation(s)
Composer
musician
conductor
musicologist
Musical artist
Charles Louis Seeger Jr. (December 14, 1886 – February 7, 1979) was an American musicologist, composer, teacher, and folklorist. He was the father of the American folk singers Pete Seeger (1919–2014), Peggy Seeger (b. 1935), and Mike Seeger (1933–2009); and brother of the World War I poet Alan Seeger (1888–1916) and children's author and educator Elizabeth Seeger (1889-1973).
Charles Louis Seeger Jr. (December 14, 1886 – February 7, 1979) was an American musicologist, composer, teacher, and folklorist. He was the father of the...
until his death in 1989. Seeger's father was CharlesSeeger (1886–1979), a folklorist and musicologist; her mother was Seeger's second wife, Ruth Porter...
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. He was a fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, and had...
the French Foreign Legion. Seeger was the brother of Elizabeth Seeger, a children's author and educator, and CharlesSeeger, a noted American pacifist...
1932, she married CharlesSeeger. Their children, including Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Barbara, Penny, and older stepson Pete Seeger, knew their mother...
Crawford Seeger, was a composer. His eldest half-brother, CharlesSeeger III, was a radio astronomer, and his next older half-brother, John Seeger, taught...
distinction of economic class yet for him, true folk music was, in CharlesSeeger's words, "associated with a lower class" in culturally and socially stratified...
English sæ ("sea") and gar ("spear"). Charles Louis Seeger, Sr. (1860–1943), American businessman Charles Louis Seeger, Jr. (1886–1979), American musicologist...
if not in the exact manner prescribed by CharlesSeeger, include Johanna Beyer, John Cage, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Vivian Fine, Carl Ruggles, Henry Cowell...
was brought to popularity by Philip Tagg, derived from the work of CharlesSeeger.: 189 Musematic repetition ("repetition of musemes": 269 ) is simple...
studying composition with renowned American musicologist and composer CharlesSeeger. Seeger later made note of their, "concurrent but entirely separate pursuit[s]...
late 1920s or early thirties she began studying with Ruth Crawford, CharlesSeeger, and Dane Rudhyar and in 1934 took Henry Cowell's percussion class at...
time for Ruth Crawford Seeger and CharlesSeeger, and caring for their children, Mike, Peggy, Barbara, and Penny. The Seeger family kids, who were too...
school division. Elizabeth Seeger was born in 1889, the younger sister of musicologist CharlesSeeger and poet Alan Seeger. She attended the Brearley...
Ethnomusicologist CharlesSeeger agrees with this, giving an example of how Suya society (in Brazil) can be understood in terms of its music. Seeger notes how...
"dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by fellow composer and musicologist CharlesSeeger to describe Ruggles' music. His method of atonal counterpoint was based...
Musicological Society in New Haven to enlist the support of musicologist CharlesSeeger in their endeavor to create a new academic society. This meeting resulted...
Folksinger Pete Seeger attended Lunsford's festival in 1935 at the age of 16 in the company of his father, musicologist and composer CharlesSeeger, then working...
required and what was required is not allowed. This is what was done by CharlesSeeger in his explanation of dissonant counterpoint, which is a way to write...
1950s and situated at the University of California in Los Angeles (CharlesSeeger), the University of Oslo (Olav Gurvin and Karl Dahlback), and the Hebrew...
(1948) and How Music Expresses Ideas (1952). Along with CharlesSeeger (father of Pete Seeger), Finkelstein is considered "one of two American Marxist...
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