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Listening to Charles Ives
Variations on His America
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2021
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-4794-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-4795-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
348
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Contents No access
List of Figures No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Timeline No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
1. A Most Unusual Career—and a Recital of Songs No access Pages 7 - 26
2. An American Musical Childhood No access Pages 27 - 48
3. Apprenticeship No access Pages 49 - 74
4. Weaving the Threads No access Pages 75 - 100
5. Seeking and Finding No access Pages 101 - 124
6. Synthesizing American and European Music No access Pages 125 - 144
7. A New Form No access Pages 145 - 172
8. American Holidays No access Pages 173 - 194
9. American Histories No access Pages 195 - 216
10. American Literature No access Pages 217 - 248
11. Transcendent Journeys No access Pages 249 - 270
12. Collecting Songs and Late Works No access Pages 271 - 286
Epilogue No access Pages 287 - 292
Notes No access Pages 293 - 312
Selected Reading No access Pages 313 - 316
Selected Listening No access Pages 317 - 322
Index of Ives’s Compositions No access Pages 323 - 326
General Index No access Pages 327 - 346
About the Author No access Pages 347 - 348
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