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Charles Ives and His World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 470

Charles Ives and His World

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 politi...

The Life of Charles Ives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

The Life of Charles Ives

Charles Ives grew up in the nineteenth century and composed chiefly in the twentieth. His nostalgia for a simpler life in the New England country town of his youth is revealed in his frequent musical quotation of songs of that earlier time: parlor and patriot songs, hymns and gospel music. He had learned these songs early in his life through his father, a village bandmaster, who remained the most important influence in his life and music. Ives absorbed these influences within an innovative and modern musical style of composition. Stuart Feder's account of Ives's life clarifies the complexities of the man and his music, while his straightforward discussion of this uniquely autobiographical music in turn illuminates the narrative.

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 792

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives

This catalogue of the music of Charles Ives contains 728 entries covering all of the prolific composer's works. James Sinclair's book presents information produced by recent Ives scholarship and generous commentary on each of Ives's compositions. It completes the work begun by musicologist John Kirkpatrick in 1955, when Ives's music manuscripts were deposited in the Yale Music Library. Ives's works are arranged alphabetically by title within genres. Whenever possible, each entry includes the main title and any other titles the composer may have used; the forces required; the duration; headings of movements; publication history; citation of the first known performance and first recording; the...

Norman Ives: Constructions and Reconstructions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Norman Ives: Constructions and Reconstructions

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-11-24
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This first comprehensive account of a mid-century master covers the multi-faceted career of a fine artist, graphic designer, teacher, and publisher. It reflects Norman Ives's timeless relevance in the visual arts. Constructions & Reconstructions is an overview of Norman Ives's multifaceted career. Ives was a gifted artist better known for his graphic design. His talents extended well beyond the field of design. Much of this seamless transi- tion came from Ives's mastery of form, common to both endeavors. Ives's paintings and collages are collected by major museums: The 1967 Whitney Annual exhibition of American painting, the Guggenheim Museum, Yale University Art Gallery and various others. ...

Charles Ives Remembered
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Charles Ives Remembered

Through their reminiscences, Ives's relatives, friends, colleagues, and associates reveal aspects of his life, character, and personality, as well as his musical activities.

Ives Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Ives Studies

A collection of essays on the life and music of American composer Charles Ives.

Charles Ives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Charles Ives

This is a comprehensively annotated guide to all the significant literature on the American composer Charles Ives (1874-1954). It includes English and foreign-language books, monographs, articles, chapters, dissertations and masters' theses.

Charles Ives Reconsidered
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Charles Ives Reconsidered

An engaging new portrait of the seminal American composer

Composers Voices from Ives to Ellington
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 506

Composers Voices from Ives to Ellington

The first opportunity to read--and hear--interviews with and about great American composers and musicians of the early twentieth century.

Baseball and the Music of Charles Ives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Baseball and the Music of Charles Ives

Baseball and the Music of Charles Ivesoffers readers an exceptionally rich understanding of Charles Ives. Through intelligent discussion of Ives's musical compositions combined with solid research on the composer's lifelong love of the American pastime, Ives's pioneering spirit and unique creativity are highlighted most clearly in this fascinating work.