Carl Ruggles' Evocations (n°4): Analysis

[@sprucescentedschizoid]

Ruggles is one of those figures who actually greatly benefits from a quality over quantity style of output. His works are not too hard or confusing to hear, but still can be listened to for a lifetime without aging, an astonishing property.

[@trumpetart]

Thanks for this great mini-lecture. It got me all excited about Ruggles again!

[@johnappleseed8369]

I'm actually surprised you've done a video on Ruggles!! I picked up the "complete Ruggles" CD a year ago and it meant something very personal to me, but he's not very well known which will hopefully change.

[@samuel_andreyev]

John Appleseed Ruggles is everything I admire in a composer -- uncompromising, deeply creative, a profound thinker yet writing music that is anchored in the physical world.

[@johnappleseed8369]

***** Very great video again! The comment about Ives was quite fitting, haha (I love Ives too)

[@xXDimistreoXx]

ahh the diligent struggles of Carl Ruggles

[@VomitPinata]

Amazing! I've been a fan of Ruggles for quite awhile now, but you hardly ever hear him mentioned anywhere. We share a last name and I've always wondered if we're somehow related. It doesn't seem to be that common of a name as I haven't met any other Ruggles in the wild! Your Jandek analysis brought me here and I have to say your style is very easy to follow and your vids never get bogged down by being too dry or overly academic. Anyway, the channel is fantastic and I'm subbing. Keep up the good work!

[@meruscales]

Some of these intervalic methods remind me greatly of Wyschnegradsky and Georg Haas but with a different resulting sound

[@MrInterestingthings]

Ruggles and elliott Carter lived on and on and on ....waiting for me to study with them . I know so little about him .his sketches must be phenomenal. 12 works published from a 95 year life. Fascinating to hear this ! Seeger deserves a treatment. I heard a lecture at F.A.U. in the 1990's dont remember anything !

[@jbenzola2]

One of the greatest solo piano pieces of the 20th century. A true American Maverick.. but not a guy you would want to have a beer with. ;-)

[@juanborjas6416]

Thank you for this video. I would really appreciate it if you made an in depth video about Dissonant Counterpoint, the composers that used it like Henry Cowell, Vivian Fine and Ruth Crawford-Seeger and how to apply it when composing.

[@samuel_andreyev]

Juan Borjas there really are no rules, as it was a personal system invented by Ruggles and used fairly intuitively. However, you can really learn a lot by making harmonic reductions of his scores, and trying to reverse-engineer them, as I've done here.

[@vatican2397]

Thanks!

[@a.w.bullington7339]

Very interesting. Thanks!

[@walexwetchina487]

sergey tanayev also had a similarly obsessive approach.

[@truBador2]

it's all in the interest of musical science.

[@guillermobeschizza7873]

Hey Samuel, great videos! It would be great to see an analysis of Leo Ornstein’s Suicide On An Airplane.

[@samuel_andreyev]

Thank you Guillermo. I have a CD on the old Swiss label, Hat Hut, with a recording of Suicide on an Airplane. I remember really enjoying Ornstein's music although I haven't heard it in a while. I expect I'd want to get to Cowell or Antheil first, but I'll keep him in mind. Best regards, Samuel

[@deanwright7611]

If we assume him to have been a precocious schoolboy on a visit to Germany we can picture him in conversation with Wagner, similarly skip forward to him in his last year's commiserating with John Lennon for the break up of the Beatles.

[@sdssdllw]

I think he was born in 1876 instead of 1874.

[@jamesoliver6625]

Don't discount his shift from aural to visual creation