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Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) was an American composer and musicologist. She studied composition in Chicago and was the first woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. She collected and arranged American folk songs, influenced by her husband Charles Seeger. Her early compositions were atonal works, but she later focused on transcribing folk songs. Her String Quartet from 1931 uses innovative serial techniques like rotation. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (b. 1939) is an American composer and professor. She was the

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