Author: Ray GreenPublisher:
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Category : Piano
Languages : en
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Ray Green Piano Course
Author: Ray GreenThe Teacher's Manual for the Ray Green Piano Course
Author: Ray GreenRay Green
Author: Sidney R. VisePublisher:
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 996
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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
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Author: Music Library AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Ray Green: His Life and Stylistic Elements of His Music from 1935 to 1962
Author: Sidney R. VisePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 346
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The American composer, Ray Green, was born in Missouri in 1908 and moved at an early age to Montana and then to California. From the time of his high school graduation in 1926 until he entered the United States Army in 1943 he resided in San Francisco. He attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and then the University of California at Berkeley, where he won the George Ladd Prix de Paris for two years of study in Paris. In 1945 Green moved to New York City and has maintained his residence there to the present. Besides composing approximately 130 works, including numerous dance compositions for his wife, May O'Donnell, he has also done significant work in music therapy, music publishing, and administration and fund-raising for the American Music Center in New York. The objectives of this study were to gather biographical information about Ray Green, including the details of his professional work in music outside of composition, to investigate his philosophies and methods of reasoning as a composer, to make a stylistic analysis of a portion of his music, and to compile a complete list of his works. Most of the information was obtained through personal taped interviews with Green at his home in New York. This was later supplemented by extensive correspondence with the composer, and by research at the Music Library of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York and the library of the Conservatory of Music of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Green's published music was obtained from his own company, the American Music Edition, and many of his unpublished works were made available during the interviews. Green is still composing today, but most of his compositions were written between 1927 and 1962. The study of the music revealed the existence of two stylistic periods, a youthful experimental one encompassing his eight years as a student (1927-1934), and a later and longer period (1935-1962) during which his methods of handling the musical materials were much more consistent. The medium for which Green has composed most regularly is the piano, and in this paper the following fifteen stylistic elements from the later period are illustrated through examples from his piano music: the major-minor third, the lowered seventh, cross relations, a type of pentatonic scale, cantilena, melodic fourths, vertical fourths, adding notes to the triad, parallel fifths and octaves, syncopation, rhythm as a thematic, staying in the same key with a release in the form of a free rhythm, invertible counterpoint, close stretto, and reinforcing a contrapuntal line. The analysis of the fifteen stylistic elements led to the conclusion that the three most important early influences upon Green were his exposure to jazz and the blues, family hymn-singing experiences which resulted in his investigation of the shape-note literature, and his intensive training in counterpoint. During the interviews Green professed a lifelong interest in American culture and in the development of a distinctly American musical style. Besides contributing to our music literature as a composer, Green has also devoted considerable effort, through music publishing and his work at the American Music Center, to the promotion of American music.
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