Charles Ives and his world
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Charles Ives and his world
（The Bard Music Festival series）
Princeton University Press, c1996
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780691011639
Description
This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays examine Ives's relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. J. Peter Burkholder shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music. Leon Botstein explores the paradox of how, in the works of Ives and Mahler, musical modernism emerges from profoundly antimodern sensibilities. David Michael Hertz reveals unsuspected parallels between one of Ives's most famous pieces, the Concord Piano Sonata, and the piano sonatas of Liszt and Scriabin. Michael Broyles sheds new light on Ives's political orientation and on his career in the insurance business, and Mark Tucker shows the importance for Ives of his vacations in the Adirondacks and the representation of that landscape in his music. The remainder of the book presents documents that illuminate Ives's personal life. A selection of some sixty letters to and from Ives and his family, edited and annotated by Tom C. Owens, is the first substantial collection of Ives correspondence to be published.
Two sections of reviews and longer profiles published during his lifetime highlight the important stages in the reception of Ives's music, from his early works through the premieres of his most important compositions to his elevation as an almost mythic figure with a reputation among some critics as America's greatest composer.
Table of Contents
Preface and AcknowledgmentsIves and the Four Musical Traditions3Innovation and Nostalgia: Ives, Mahler, and the Origins of Modernism35Ives's Concord Sonata and the Texture of Music75Charles Ives and the American Democratic Tradition118Of Men and Mountains: Ives in the Adirondacks161Selected Correspondence 1881-1954199Selected Reviews 1888-1951273Charles E. Ives363Charles E. Ives368Charles Ives: The Man and His Music (Excerpt)373An American Innovator, Charles Ives377Ives Today: His Vision and Challenge390Four Symphonies by Charles Ives391Tardy Recognition: Emergence of Charles Ives as Strongly Individual Figure in American Music403On Horseback to Heaven408Posterity Catches Up with Charles Ives423Charles Ives - America's Musical Prophet430Charles E. Ives: 1874-1954433Index443List of Contributors454
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: cloth ISBN 9780691011646
Description
This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays examine Ives's relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. J. Peter Burkholder shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music. Leon Botstein explores the paradox of how, in the works of Ives and Mahler, musical modernism emerges from profoundly antimodern sensibilities. David Michael Hertz reveals unsuspected parallels between one of Ives's most famous pieces, the Concord Piano Sonata, and the piano sonatas of Liszt and Scriabin. Michael Broyles sheds new light on Ives's political orientation and on his career in the insurance business, and Mark Tucker shows the importance for Ives of his vacations in the Adirondacks and the representation of that landscape in his music.
The remainder of the book presents documents that illuminate Ives's personal life. A selection of some sixty letters to and from Ives and his family, edited and annotated by Tom C. Owens, is the first substantial collection of Ives correspondence to be published. Two sections of reviews and longer profiles published during his lifetime highlight the important stages in the reception of Ives's music, from his early works through the premieres of his most important compositions to his elevation as an almost mythic figure with a reputation among some critics as America's greatest composer.
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