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The Sun-Treader

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  • In Carl Ruggles

    …the works released by Ruggles, The Sun-Treader for orchestra (1926–31) is the longest and most important. It is highly dissonant and complex, rhapsodic and imaginative, characteristics typical of other works by Ruggles. Fond of mystical poetry, he sought sublime, impressionistic effects; this practice led some critics to attack his compositions…

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