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 Her works were unpublished, but are available through the American Composers Alliance.^[2][3]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 Instrmuments, 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

1. ^ "Dorothy Rudd Moore". http://composers.com/dorothy-rudd-moore. Retrieved 7 January 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Horne, Aaron (1996) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Brass music of black composers: a bibliography. http://books.google.com/books?id=shJofk603zMC&pg=PA188&dq=Dorothy+Rudd+Moore+(born+1940)&hl=en&ei=hUEnTdLJI4Gs8Aa4nvysAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Dorothy%20Rudd%20Moore%20(born%201940)&f=false. Retrieved 7 January 2011. 
3. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. http://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PR30&dq=Dorothy+Rudd+Moore+norton&hl=en&ei=BkcnTfjFHs2r8Aai76zbAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 4 October 2010. 

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Name	Moore, Dorothy Rudd
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Short description	Composer
Date of birth	4 June 1940
Place of birth	New Castle, Delaware
Date of death
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