1930
Three Songs
Composed by 
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Ruth Crawford Seeger Text by 
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg Song Collection
Three Songs sets texts by Carl Sandburg. Crawford scored these songs for mezzo-soprano (or contralto), oboe, percussion, and piano. Optional wind and string ostinati may join.
About
These three songs were all premiered separately (“Rat Riddles” in 1930 in New York, “In Tall Grass” in 1932 in Berlin, and “Prayers of Steel” in 1933 in Amsterdam). However, the three songs are grouped together in a cohesive cycle, involving a mixture of serialist compositional technique and free composition.
–Christie Finn
(Source: Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians)
Sheet Music
Three Songs
Ruth Crawford Seeger
1. Rat Riddles
2. Prayers of Steel
3. In Tall Grass
2. Prayers of Steel
3. In Tall Grass