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1. Essays Before a Sonata, The Majority, and Other Writings by Charles Ives | |
Paperback: 284
Pages
(1999-01-17)
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A highly original writer |
2. Charles Ives: A Life with Music by Jan Swafford | |
Paperback: 544
Pages
(1998-01-17)
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Captivating Biography
GREAT BOOK
A Great American Composer Brought to Life Ives was born in Danbury, Connecticut and remained throughout his life attached to his vision of thepost-Civil War small-town New England of his childhood.His father, George Ives, was a bandmaster and the greatest influence on Ives's life.Ives was a musical prodigy who began composing at an early age, quickly picking up experimental styles. He showed great proficiency at the piano and organ. (Through young manhood, we worked Sundays as a church organist.)He studied music at Yale where his teacher was Horatio Parker, a then famous American who was trained in the music of German Romanticism.As a college student, Ives wrote music played for the inaugaration of President William McKinley. After graduation from Yale, Ives became a millionare in the insurance industry where he pioneered many marketing techniques.He also became increasingly Progessive and politically active and actually proposed a constitutional amendment which would increase the power of the democracy in government decision-making.At the age of 32, he married Harmony Twitchell who, after his father, was the greatest influence on his life. Ives wrote music in the midst of an extraordinarily busy life.Most people think of Ives as a trailblazer and iconoclast.He was indeed, but may of his earlier works, such as the Second and the Third Symphonies are easily accessible and have a feel of America about them similar to the feelings Aaron Copland evoked some three decades later. Jan Swafford's biography movingly and eloquently describes the life of Charles Ives. This is a reflective, thoughtful discussion of Ives, his America, his music, and its reception. In addition to a thorough treatment of Ives' life and works, Swafford has three chapters which he titles "Entra'acets" which consist of broad-based reflections on Ives's music and its significance.Swafford's entire book is full of ideas which are intriguing in themselves.Of Ives's work, Swafford gives his most extended treatment to the Fourth Symphony (he sees Ives as essentially a symphonist) and to the Concord piano Sonata.But many works are discussed in detail which will be accessible to the non-musician.The book has copious and highly substantive footnotes and an extensive bibliography. Ives's Americanness, humor, romanticism, modernism, optimism, and generosity ( Ives gave large amounts of money to his family and to musicians and music publications. He also paid for the publication of several of his important works when commercial publishers showed no interest in them.) come through well.Swafford sees Ives as the last American transcendentalist in the tradition of Emerson.At the conclusion of his book, Swafford writes of Ives (p. 434) " [I]n his music and his life he embodied a genuine pluralism, a wholeness beneath diversity, that in itself is a beacon for democracy and its art.Aesthetically he is an alternative to Modernism, an exploratory road without the darkness and despair of the twentieth century.In spirit he handed us a baton and calls on us to carry it further.He suggests a way out of despair, but leaves it to us to find the route for ourselves.If we are alone with ourselves today, Ives speaks incomparably to that condition."
Ives, the Bucky Fuller of American music! Ives' great successes all came together, early in life, following his marriage.He composed on the side as he built his company, burning the candle at both ends.Swafford speculates that Ives was literally manic during those heroic years of the Teens, and that he subsequently crashed, enduring more depression than mania for the rest of his life.Interestingly, the Great War was such a blow to his idealism, he reacted physically, compounding his collapse.Ives retired very young, but rather than turn to composing, he found that he was unable.The rest of his life was devoted to trying to find an audience for the works of his glory years.I found the book most interesting here, in situating Ives in relation to the more well-known Modernists of his time -- Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Varese and the others.The irony is that while Ives' music came about independently, it was "popularized," only through association with the European revolutionaries, and so he was widely perceived as an imitator.The world was only ready for Charlie's music after the ground had been broken!The story of Cowell, Slonimsky, Carter, Gilman and Bernstein, who championed Ives over many years until he was finally recognized, is fascinating. This is supremely enjoyable reading.Jan Swafford clearly loves Ives, and I found his account irresistable.
A high-water mark in musical biographies. |
3. Charles Edward Ives and His Piano Sonata No. 2: "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860" by Alice S. Reed | |
Paperback: 182
Pages
(2006-07-06)
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4. Charles Ives and Aaron Copland - A Listener's Guide: Parallel Lives Series, No. 1 Their Lives and Their Music by Daniel Felsenfeld | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2004-11-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description The accompanying CD includes a sampling of their music from masterworks such as Appalachian Spring and The Unanswered Question to less common (yet every bit as worthwhile) gems. Guided listenings deliver a comprehensive account of exactly how the pieces work. Though these men don’t lack for documentation, Ives and Copland: A Listener’s Guide is an easier, more intimate introduction to their work and lives for the layman or neophyte—or even for the musician—who wants to know more about these composers. Copland, son of Jewish Polish-Lithuanian immigrants, studied with Nadja Boulanger, but being surrounded by French music and culture only strengthened his resolve to become an "American" composer. Despite a brief flirtation with serialism, he was determined to close the gap between composer and audience, and he succeeded admirably: his colorful scores, often suffused with folk and jazz idioms, speak to everyone; he became not only one of the most popular, but most respected composers of his time. Ives, whose musician father opened his ears to unheard-of musical combinations, was born into a New England family steeped in transcendental philosophy. His music, eccentric and deliberately perverse, is an acquired taste. Any composer who feels impelled to write a long, linguistically and philosophically impenetrable essay explaining his "magnum opus" can hardly expect to capture a large audience. Felsenfeld makes the best possible case for it, but one senses admiration rather than love. The author's style is not always felicitous (Copland's teacher "feared that Ives' influence might improperly influence the talented young man"), but having obviously read all of Copland's popular and Ives' indigestible writings, he was perhaps improperly influenced himself. --Edith Eisler Customer Reviews (2)
What's on the CD you ask...
introduction to the music with a CD |
5. 114 Songs by Charles Ives by Charles Ives | |
Paperback: 263
Pages
(1933-10-01)
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6. Charles Ives and His World | |
Paperback: 464
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(1996-08-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description 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. Customer Reviews (3)
Excellent Collection of Primary Sources
"[...] only an inventor knows how to borrow."
A "must read" I had theopportunity and priveledge to attend the Bard Music Festival forperformances of some of my favorite Ives pieces. It was fantastic. Ihighly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Ives legacy andespecially to any student of composition. ... Read more |
7. Charles Ives Remembered: AN ORAL HISTORY (Music in American Life) by Vivian Perlis | |
Paperback: 264
Pages
(2002-07-24)
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AMAZING COLLECTION OF INTERVIEWS (REGARDING AN AMERICAN GENIUS)
I can't overestimate the value of this priceless collection.
The Place To Start |
8. The Charles Ives Tunebook, Second Edition by Clayton W. Henderson | |
Hardcover: 424
Pages
(2008-06-11)
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Great for Academics |
9. Charles Ives & His Amer by Rossiter Frank | |
Paperback: 448
Pages
(1980-01-01)
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10. Charles Ives: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge Music Bibliographies) by Gayle Sherwood Magee | |
Hardcover: 288
Pages
(2010-04-20)
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11. Music's Connecticut Yankee: An introduction to the life and music of Charles Ives by Helen R Sive | |
Hardcover: 141
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(1977)
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12. Charles Ives Reconsidered (Music in American Life) by Gayle Sherwood Magee | |
Paperback: 231
Pages
(2010-06-29)
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A New Look at Charles Ives
Unsettling portrait of an American not-so-original |
13. What Charlie Heard: The Story of the American Composer Charles Ives by Mordicai Gerstein | |
Hardcover:
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(2004-03)
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A Glorious Noise
Are Your Ears Wide Open?
"If I had my own son..."
A Wonderfull Book
Introduction and Explanation |
14. The Music of Charles Ives (Composers of the Twentieth Century Serie) by Philip Lambert | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(1997-08-11)
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15. Charles Ives and the Classical Tradition | |
Paperback: 200
Pages
(1996-05-11)
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Charles Ives: The Great Anticipator. |
16. All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing by Professor J. Peter Burkholder | |
Paperback: 568
Pages
(2004-08-11)
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Extremely important book about Ives |
17. Charles E.Ives: Discography by Richard Warren | |
Hardcover: 136
Pages
(1978-10)
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18. A Union of Diversities: Style in the Music of Charles Ives by Larry Starr | |
Hardcover: 224
Pages
(1992-03)
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19. Charles Edward Ives, 1874-1954: A Bibliography of His Music by Dominique De Lerma | |
Hardcover:
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(1970)
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20. The Third Symphony of Charles Ives (Cms Sourcebooks in American Music) by Mark Zobel | |
Paperback: 146
Pages
(2009-03-02)
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