Charles Ives And His World

Author : J. Burkholder
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780691223254

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Charles Ives and His World by J. Burkholder Pdf

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.

Author : Henry Cowell,Sidney Robertson Cowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Composers
ISBN : MINN:31951001951928L

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Charles Ives and His Music by Henry Cowell,Sidney Robertson Cowell Pdf

Author : Gayle Sherwood Magee
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252033261

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Charles Ives Reconsidered by Gayle Sherwood Magee Pdf

An engaging new portrait of the seminal American composer

Author : J. Peter Burkholder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Composers
ISBN : 0300038852

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Charles Ives by J. Peter Burkholder Pdf

Looks at how Ives' music changed over the course of his career, identifies the most important influences, and discusses the themes of Ives' work

Author : David C Paul
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252094699

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Charles Ives in the Mirror by David C Paul Pdf

In this sweeping survey of intellectual and musical history, David C. Paul tells the new story of how the music of American composer Charles Ives (1874–1954) was shaped by shifting conceptions of American identity within and outside of musical culture. 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.

Author : Stuart Feder
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300054815

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Charles Ives, "my Father's Song" by Stuart Feder Pdf

A psychoanalytic biography which examines the lives of Charles Ives and his father, George. It shows how a knowledge of their relationship as father and son, teacher and pupil is central to understanding Ives' work. Charles' music is shown as an unconscious collaboration between father and son.

Author : Vivian Perlis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 025207078X

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Charles Ives Remembered by Vivian Perlis Pdf

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

Author : Joseph Horowitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393881257

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Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music by Joseph Horowitz Pdf

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonín Dvorák prophesied a “great and noble school” of American classical music based on the “negro melodies” he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would foster popular genres known the world over, it never gained a foothold in the concert hall. Black composers found few opportunities to have their works performed, and white composers mainly rejected Dvorák’s lead. Joseph Horowitz ranges throughout American cultural history, from Frederick Douglass and Huckleberry Finn to George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and the work of Ralph Ellison, searching for explanations. Challenging the standard narrative for American classical music fashioned by Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, he looks back to literary figures—Emerson, Melville, and Twain—to ponder how American music can connect with a “usable past.” The result is a new paradigm that makes room for Black composers, including Harry Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett, William Levi Dawson, and Florence Price, while giving increased prominence to Charles Ives and George Gershwin. Dvorák’s Prophecy arrives in the midst of an important conversation about race in America—a conversation that is taking place in music schools and concert halls as well as capitols and boardrooms. As George Shirley writes in his foreword to the book, “We have been left unprepared for the current cultural moment. [Joseph Horowitz] explains how we got there [and] proposes a bigger world of American classical music than what we have known before. It is more diverse and more equitable. And it is more truthful.”

Author : Catherine Jones
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748684625

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Literature and Music in the Atlantic World, 1767-1867 by Catherine Jones Pdf

This new study looks at the relationship of rhetoric and music in the era's intellectual discourses, texts and performance cultures principally in Europe and North America. Catherine Jones begins by examining the attitudes to music and its performance by leading figures of the American Enlightenment and Revolution, notably Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. She also looks at the attempts of Francis Hopkinson, William Billings and others to harness the Orphean power of music so that it should become a progressive force in the creation of a new society. She argues that the association of rhetoric and music that reaches back to classical Antiquity acquired new relevance and underwent new theorisation and practical application in the American Enlightenment in light of revolutionary Atlantic conditions. Jones goes on to consider changes in the relationship of rhetoric and music in the nationalising milieu of the nineteenth century; the connections of literature, music and music theory to changing models of subjectivity; and Romantic appropriations of Enlightenment visions of the public ethical function of music.

Author : Geoffrey Block,J. Peter Burkholder
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300105274

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Charles Ives and the Classical Tradition by Geoffrey Block,J. Peter Burkholder Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1591124867

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What Charlie Heard by Anonim Pdf

Charlie listened all through his boyhood, and as he grew into a man, he found he wanted to re-create in music the sounds that he heard every day. But others couldn't hear what Charlie heard. They didn't hear it as music--only as noise. In this daring and

Author : Kyle Gann
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252099366

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Charles Ives's Concord by Kyle Gann Pdf

In 1921, insurance executive Charles Ives sent out copies of a piano sonata to two hundred strangers. Laden with dissonant chords, complex rhythm, and a seemingly chaotic structure, the so-called Concord Sonata confounded the recipients, as did the accompanying book, Essays before a Sonata . Kyle Gann merges exhaustive research with his own experience as a composer to reveal the Concord Sonata and the essays in full. Diffracting the twinned works into their essential aspects, Gann lays out the historical context that produced Ives's masterpiece and illuminates the arguments Ives himself explored in the Essays . Gann also provides a movement-by-movement analysis of the work's harmonic structure and compositional technique; connects the sonata to Ives works that share parts of its material; and compares the 1921 version of the Concord with its 1947 revision to reveal important aspects of Ives's creative process. A tour de force of critical, theoretical, and historical thought, Charles Ives's Concord provides nothing less than the first comprehensive consideration of a work at the heart of twentieth century American music.

Author : Henry Cowell,Sidney Robertson Cowell
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39015007882304

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Charles Ives and His Music by Henry Cowell,Sidney Robertson Cowell Pdf

Often called 'the father of American music,' Charles Ives, who died in May 1954, left a heritage of music which will in all probability be as widely known and loved from now on as it was neglected in the past generation. The authors have written a warm, moving story of Ives's life and art. Born in Danbury, Connecticut, in 1874, Charles Ives was long regarded by many as a musical eccentric. Today, he is more and more thought of as a creator as truly and triumphantly American as were Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. As a youth, he was the restless pupil of his father (also a musician), and loved to try new things in musical idiom. Ives was a Connecticut Yankee to his roots, at home with the world of nature, militantly idealistic, relentless in his integrity, diligent in his appointed duties, and proud of resulting achievements. He was a better baseball player than organist when he entered Yale and, afterward, more successful as a businessman than as a composer. He believed that artists could bear their economic burden without endangering their art. Consequently, he applied himself to building one of the great insurance sales agencies of America. His composition was done in the hours he could spare from his vocation. As he prospered, much of his money went to print and publish his music, to hire performances so that he might hear what he wrote, and to make his music available. But, at first, performers and conductors scorned as unplayable music far beyond their talents and imaginations. The burden of vocation and the frustration of avocation brought on an early physical collapse, and Ives spent the last half of his life in retirement and partial invalidism. With financial means to devote himself wholly to composition, he now lacked the strength, and his will to continue composing was damaged by long artistic isolation. The music of Charles Ives is a cultural sourcebook of America at the turn of the century. Ives took the evangelical hymns, the melodies of the dance hall, the military band marches, the sounds of village life, college and fraternity songs, the music of the world of nature, and set them faithfully. He then shaped, interwove, and integrated them so that a fresh musical work might emerge - familiar in substance but of startling drive, perception, and vigor. 'The fierce complexity of reality' was Ives's conception of the nature of things and music.

Author : J. Peter Burkholder
Publisher : Amadeus
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442247956

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Listening to Charles Ives by J. Peter Burkholder Pdf

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.

Author : James B. Sinclair
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300076010

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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives by James B. Sinclair Pdf

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 derivation of the work, listing music on which it may be modeled or from which it may borrow material; the principal literature treating the piece; and commentary on these and other matters. The catalogue also provides musical incipits for all Ives's extant works, seven appendixes (covering his work lists, 'Quality Photo' lists, his songbooks, a chronology of his life, recordings made by Ives, and his private publications and commercial publishers), three concordances, and four extensive indexes (addresses, names, titles, and musical borrowings).