Dorothy Rudd Moore
Dorothy Rudd Moore (born 4 June 1940) is an American music educator and composer.
Life
Dorothy Rudd was born in New Castle, Delaware, and took piano lessons as a child. She graduated from Howard University in 1963 where she studied with Mark Fax, and continued her studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in 1963 and Chou Wen-Chung in New York in 1965.
Rudd worked as a private music teacher, from 1965-66 taught at the Harlem School of the Arts, in 1969 at New York University and in 1971 at the Bronx Community College. She married cellist Kermit Moore in 1964.[1]
Moore has received the Lucy Moten fellowship and other grants, and in 1968 became a co-founder of the Society of Black Composers in New York. Her works were unpublished, but are available through the American Composers Alliance.[2][3]
Works
Moore has composed song cycles, chamber pieces, orchestral music and an opera. Selected works include:
- Three Pieces for violin and piano, 1967
- Modes for string quartet, 1968
- Dirge and Deliverance for cello and piano, 1971
- Dream and Variations for piano, 1974
- Twelve Quatrains from the Rubaiyat, song cycle, 1962
- Songs from the Dark Tower, song cycle, 1970
- Lament for Nine Instruments, 1969
- Moods for viola and cello, 1969
- Symphony No. 1, 1963
- Transencion, 1986[2]
- Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds, and Death for soprano, violin, and piano
- In Celebration, a collage to poems by Langston Hughes
- Frederick Douglass, opera, 1985
References
- ↑ "Dorothy Rudd Moore". Retrieved 7 January 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Horne, Aaron (1996). Brass music of black composers: a bibliography (DIGITIZED ONLINE BY GOOGLEBOOKS). Retrieved 7 January 2011.
- ↑ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (DIGITIZED ONLINE BY GOOGLEBOOKS). Retrieved 4 October 2010.
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