Life

Dorothy Rudd was born in New Castle, Delaware

New Castle, Delaware

New Castle is a city in New Castle County, Delaware, six miles south of Wilmington, situated on the Delaware River. In 1900, 3,380 people lived here; in 1910, 3,351...

, and took piano lessons as a child. She graduated from Howard University

Howard University

Howard University is a federally chartered, non-profit, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university located in Washington, D.C., United States...

 in 1963 where she studied with Mark Fax

Mark Fax

Mark Oakland Fax was a composer and a professor of music.-Child prodigy:Born on June 15, 1911, in Baltimore, Maryland, Fax was a child prodigy. By age fourteen, Fax was employed as a theater organist playing scores to silent films in Baltimore's Regent Theater on Saturdays, and gospel music at an...

, and continued her studies with Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...

 in Paris in 1963 and Chou Wen-Chung

Chou Wen-chung

Chou Wen-chung , Shandong, China) is a Chinese American composer of contemporary classical music. He emigrated in 1946 to the United States where he lives.-Life:...

 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

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

 and in 1971 at the Bronx Community College. She married cellist Kermit Moore in 1964.

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 Her works were unpublished, but are available through the American Composers Alliance.

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
• Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds, and Death for soprano, violin, and piano
• In Celebration, a collage to poems by Langston Hughes
  Langston Hughes
  James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance...
  
  
• Frederick Douglass, opera, 1985