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Charles Ives and His World

Author : J. Burkholder
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691223254
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Charles Ives and His World written by J. Burkholder and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Charles Ives in the Mirror

Author : David C Paul
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094697
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Charles Ives in the Mirror written by David C Paul and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American composer Charles Ives (1874–1954) has gone from being a virtual unknown to become one of the most respected and lauded composers in American music. In this sweeping survey of intellectual and musical history, David C. Paul tells the new story of how Ives's music was shaped by shifting conceptions of American identity within and outside of musical culture, charting the changes in the reception of Ives across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. Paul focuses on the critics, composers, performers, and scholars whose contributions were most influential in shaping the critical discourse on Ives, many of them marquee names of American musical culture themselves, including Henry Cowell, Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, and Leonard Bernstein. Paul explores both how Ives positioned his music amid changing philosophical and aesthetic currents and how others interpreted his contributions to American music. Although Ives's initial efforts to find a public in the early twenties attracted a few devotees, the resurgence of interest in the American literary past during the thirties made a concert staple of his "Concord" Sonata, a work dedicated to nineteenth-century transcendentalist writers. Paul shows how Ives was subsequently deployed as an icon of American freedom during the early Cold War period and how he came to be instigated at the head of a line of "American maverick" composers. Paul also examines why a recent cadre of scholars has beset the composer with Gilded Age social anxieties. By embedding Ives' reception within the changing developments of a wide range of fields including intellectual history, American studies, literature, musicology, and American politics and society in general, Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer greatly advances our understanding of Ives and his influence on nearly a century of American culture.

Charles Ives and His America

Author : Frank R. Rossiter
Publisher : New York : Liveright
ISBN 13 : 9780871406101
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Charles Ives and His America written by Frank R. Rossiter and published by New York : Liveright. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the great American composer, assessing his development, his views and decisions, and his isolation, within the context of his social and cultural milieu, and the gradual recognition of his singular achievement and importance

The Charles Ives Tunebook, Second Edition

Author : Clayton W. Henderson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253350905
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book The Charles Ives Tunebook, Second Edition written by Clayton W. Henderson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-02 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henderson provides important insights into the composer's body of work.

The American Musical Landscape

Author : Richard Crawford
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520224825
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The American Musical Landscape written by Richard Crawford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book reflects a breakthrough in American music studies, an unrecognized field among traditional musicologists until the past few decades, during which enormous progress has been made in documenting three centuries of American musical activities and figures. Time and effort had to be expended exclusively on the development of basic historical studies. The time has come for a new phase, one that can take a creative, interpretive approach. Professor Crawford's study will introduce this higher level of scholarship into the field of American music studies."—Vivian Perlis, author of Charles Ives Remembered "A major statement by a senior scholar on what American musicology is all about. . . These themes are also topical; they come at a time when much more research is being done in American music, but little thought is being given to the big picture, the vision, the philosophy, and the implications of historical research. Now is the time for a synthesis, and there are few scholars better equipped to do that in American music than Richard Crawford."—Michael Broyles, author of Music of the Highest Class

Listening to Charles Ives

Author : J. Peter Burkholder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442247959
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Listening to Charles Ives written by J. Peter Burkholder and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Ives is widely regarded as the first great American composer of classical music. But listening to his music is an adventure—hearing how a piece begins may not prepare you for what comes next, or how it ends. Knowing one Ives piece may not prepare you for another. Award-winning music historian J. Peter Burkholder provides an introduction to the composer’s diverse musical output and unusual career to readers of any background, discussing about forty of the best and most characteristic pieces framed with biographical sketches. Burkholder shows how Ives mastered each tradition he encountered, from American popular music to classical European genres, from Protestant church music to his own unique experimental idiom, and then interwove elements from all these traditions in the astonishing works of his maturity. Listening to Charles Ives contains compelling walkthroughs of select pieces and ultimately reveals that there is an Ives piece for everyone.

Baseball and the Music of Charles Ives

Author : Timothy A. Johnson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810849990
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Baseball and the Music of Charles Ives written by Timothy A. Johnson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Selected Correspondence of Charles Ives

Author : Charles Ives
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520932285
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Selected Correspondence of Charles Ives written by Charles Ives and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-06-14 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative volume of 453 letters written by and to composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) provides unparalleled insight into one of the most extraordinary and paradoxical careers in American music history. The most comprehensive collection of Ives's correspondence in print, this book opens a direct window on Ives's complex personality and his creative process. Though Ives spent much of his career out of the mainstream of professional music-making, he corresponded with a surprisingly large group of musicians and critics, including John J. Becker, Henry Bellamann, Leonard Bernstein, John Cage, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Ingolf Dahl, Walter Damrosch, Lehman Engel, Clifton J. Furness, Lou Harrison, Bernard Herrmann, John Kirkpatrick, Serge Koussevitzky, John Lomax, Francesco Malipiero, Radiana Pazmor, Paul Rosenfeld, Carl Ruggles, E. Robert Schmitz, Nicolas Slonimsky, and Peter Yates.

Charles Ives and the Classical Tradition

Author : Geoffrey Block
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300105278
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Charles Ives and the Classical Tradition written by Geoffrey Block and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Charles Ives has long been viewed as the quintessential American composer, he placed himself in the European classical tradition, drew on it heavily for his aesthetic philosophy and musical techniques, and extended it to create something new. This book illuminates Ives's music by comparing it with that of other composers in Europe and the United States. Edited by two highly regarded Ives scholars, the book begins with essays that examine the influences on Ives of his musical predecessors and concludes with essays that find extensive parallels between Ives and such European contemporaries as Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, and Stravinsky, whose music he knew little or not at all, but with whom he shared influences and concerns. Taken together, these chapters demonstrate that even apparently strange or distinctively American aspects of Ives's music--from his penchant for quotation to his juxtaposition of disparate styles--have strong precedents and parallels among European composers. Ives emerges as a composer at home in the classical tradition, engaged in exploring the same issues that confronted composers of his generation on both sides of the Atlantic.

Music in American Society

Author : George McCue
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351318462
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Music in American Society written by George McCue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the literary legacy of a national music festival in St. Louis, organized to identify as clearly as possible the specifically native character of music originating in the United States of America. The festival—the Bicentennial Horizons of American Music and the Performing Arts (B.H.A.M.)—sponsored more than 250 performances and workshops between Flag Day and Independence Day 1976. It was the only event of the Bicentennial celebration to address itself to a survey and evaluation of the musical development of this country.

Song

Author : Carol Kimball
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1617749974
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Song written by Carol Kimball and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Kimball's comprehensive survey of art song literature has been the principal one-volume American source on the topic. Now back in print after an absence of several years this newly revised edition includes biographies and discussions of the work of

Music in American Society, 1776-1976

Author : George McCue
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780878552092
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Music in American Society, 1776-1976 written by George McCue and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Charles Ives

Author : Gayle Sherwood Magee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135847150
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Charles Ives written by Gayle Sherwood Magee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research guide provides detailed information on over one thousand publications and websites concerning the American composer Charles Ives. With informative annotations and nearly two hundred new entries, this greatly expanded, updated, and revised guide offers a key survey of the field for interested readers and experienced researchers alike.

The Life of Charles Ives

Author : Stuart Feder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521599313
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Charles Ives written by Stuart Feder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136806202
Total Pages : 735 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes recognizes that change is a driving force in all the arts. It covers major trends in music, dance, theater, film, visual art, sculpture, and performance art--as well as architecture, science, and culture.

Struggling to Define a Nation

Author : Charles Hiroshi Garrett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520942825
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Struggling to Define a Nation written by Charles Hiroshi Garrett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-10-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, Struggling to Define a Nation captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. In an engaging blend of music analysis and cultural critique, Charles Hiroshi Garrett examines a dazzling array of genres—including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music—and numerous well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin. Garrett argues that rather than a single, unified vision, an exploration of the past century reveals a contested array of musical perspectives on the nation, each one advancing a different facet of American identity through sound.

The Law of the Heart

Author : Sam B. Girgus
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292739699
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Law of the Heart written by Sam B. Girgus and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1979-05-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Law of the Heart is a vigorous challenge to the prevailing concept of the “antidemocratic” image of the self in the American literary and cultural tradition. Sam B. Girgus counters this interpretation and attempts to develop a new understanding of democratic individualism and liberal humanism in American literature under the rubric of literary modernism. The image of the individual self who retreats inward, conforming to a distorted “law of the heart,” emerges from the works of such writers as Cooper and Poe and composer Charles Ives. Yet, as Girgus shows, other American writers relate the idea of the self to reality and culture in a more complex way: the self confronts and is reconciled to the paradox of history and reality. In Girgus’ view, the tradition of pragmatic, humanistic individualism provides a foundation for a future where individual liberty is a major priority. He uses literary modernism as a bridge for relating contemporary social conditions to crises of the American self and culture as seen in the works of writers including Emerson, Howells, Whitman, Henry James, William James, Fitzgerald, Bellow, and McLuhan.