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Also known as Charles Sprague Ruggles, Carl Sprague Ruggles, Ruggles

American composer (1876-1971)

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1876-03-11
Active to
1971-10-24

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Charles "Carl" Sprague Ruggles (March 11, 1876 – October 24, 1971) 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. <a href="https://www

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