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Chapters: Ives, Songs, List of Ives, Songs Casts, the Unanswered Question, Ivesiana. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ives, Songs is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to songs of Charles Ives: The premiere took place on February 4, 1988, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center with scenery by David Mitchell, costumes by Florence Klotz and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. The singer was Timothy Nolen and the pianist Gordon Boelzner. Other works to the music of Ives in the City Ballet repertory include Peter Martins' Calcium Light Night, George Balanchine's Ivesiana and Eliot Feld's The Unanswered Question. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17518143 ... Read more

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Ives' life (1874-1955) spanned two centuries; he grew up in the nineteenth and composed chiefly in the twentieth. His nostalgia for a simpler life in the New England town of his youth is revealed in his frequent musical quotation of songs of that earlier time: parlor and patriotic songs, hymns and gospel music that he learned from his father, a village bandmaster, and the most important influence on his life and music. This book clarifies the complexity of the man and his music--music that is uniquely autobiographical and that itself illuminates the narrative. ... Read more

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Title: Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History & Charles Ives: A Guide to Research.(Book Review)
Author: Denise Von Glahn
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2003
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 59Issue: 4Page: 901(2)

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Chapters: Wendy Carlos, Charles Ives, Krzysztof Penderecki, Terry Riley, No Wave, La Monte Young, Harry Partch, Iannis Xenakis, Glenn Branca, John Foulds, Julián Carrillo, Lou Harrison, Ben Johnston, Rhys Chatham, Giacinto Scelsi, Henry Ward Poole, Robert Rich, Brian Ferneyhough, Pauline Oliveros, Marc Sabat, Eivind Groven, Andi Spicer, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, James Tenney, Kyle Gann, Georg Hajdu, Bruce Mather, Mordecai Sandberg, Nicola Vicentino, Dimitri Voudouris, Pascal Dusapin, Antoine de Bertrand, Kaija Saariaho, Joe Maneri, Jaroslav Ježek, Douglas Leedy, List of Experimental Musicians, Neptune, Karel Reiner, Frank Denyer, Gérard Grisey, Eric Knechtges, Newband, Jean-Etienne Marie, Adriaan Fokker, Manfred Stahnke, Hans Luedtke, Pascale Criton, Maurice Ohana, Anne La Berge, Ezra Sims, Adam Silverman, Martin Smolka, Easley Blackwood, Jr., Max Méreaux, Tui St. George Tucker, Michael Harrison, Daniel James Wolf, Joel Mandelbaum, Jacob Isaacson, Alois Hába, Henk Badings, Catherine Christer Hennix, François Paris, Mildred Couper, Alain Bancquart, James Wood, Johnny Reinhard, Harold Fortuin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 341. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer. He is widely regarded as one of the first American composers of international significance. Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original". Ives combined the American popular and church-music traditions of his youth with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=66283 ... Read more

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Title: Charles Ives, A Life with Music.
Author: Robert C. Jones
Publication: American Scholar (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1998
Publisher: Phi Beta Kappa Society
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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : James Dyson, Jonathan Ive, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Christopher Dresser, Charles Ricketts, Souhed Nemlaghi, Vaughan Oliver, Henry Cole, Ron Arad, Jasper Morrison, Neil Poulton, Charles Robert Ashbee, Robin Day, Reginald Mitchell, Ross Lovegrove, Ken Garland, Douglas Scott, Terence Conran, Anton Furst. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Sir James Dyson, CBE, né le 2 mai 1947 au nord du Norfolk, est un inventeur et designer industriel britannique, président-fondateur de la société Dyson. Il est devenu célèbre grâce à ses aspirateurs à séparation cyclonique, sans sac et sans perte d'aspiration. Il a également inventé un système de lave-linge plus efficace, une brouette qui ne s'enfonce pas dans la boue, un lanceur de bateaux flottant... Ses aspirateurs sont désormais les plus vendus aux États-Unis (devançant ainsi Hoover). Son actif net est estimé à plus d'un milliard de livres sterling, le plaçant à la cinquante-septième place des milliardaires. Né d'une famille d'enseignants, il a fait ses études tout d'abord à l'école de Gresham (1956-1965). Là, il a passé les examens Ordinaire pour le latin, le grec, le français, l'anglais, la littérature anglaise, les mathématiques, et âgé de dix-huit ans a passé les examens au niveau-A en histoire ancienne, en expression artistique et en enseignement général. De 1965 à 1966, il va à l'école de dessin et de peinture Byam Shaw à Londres. Puis, il étudie de 1966 à 1970, au Royal College of Art (RCA), le dessin d'ameublement et la décoration intérieure. Il conçoit, durant ces années : Il rejoint la société Rotork (à Bath) en 1970 d'où il lance et préside la nouvelle division de la Marine. Il développe les ventes sur quarante pays différents et conçoit de nouvelles ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Lowell Liebermann's arrangement of this Ives classic brings this set of variations to the piano keyboard from the original organ setting. This is a classic show piece for the somewhat advanced pianist, a crowd pleasing treatment of the beloved anthem, which presents the familiar melody in new and unusual ways. ... Read more

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[St. Ives] : printed for the author, and sold by T. Bloom, printer, St. Ives, [1788?]. [4],28p. ; 4° ... Read more

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Chapters: John Adams, Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Ornette Coleman, Virgil Thomson, George Crumb, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Wynton Marsalis, Ned Rorem, Elliott Carter, Ernst Toch, Karel Husa, Dominick Argento, Mario Davidovsky, Howard Hanson, Walter Piston, Charles Wuorinen, Gian Carlo Menotti, Norman Dello Joio, William Schuman, Steven Stucky, Morton Gould, Henry Brant, Joseph Schwantner, William Bolcom, Roger Sessions, Bernard Rands, Paul Moravec, Douglas Moore, Robert Ward, John Harbison, Quincy Porter, John Corigliano, Gunther Schuller, Leo Sowerby, David Lang, Michael Colgrass, Christopher Rouse, Donald Martino, Mel Powell, Jacob Druckman, George Perle, Yehudi Wyner, David Del Tredici, Stephen Albert, Aaron Jay Kernis, Roger Reynolds, Gail Kubik, Shulamit Ran, John La Montaine, George Walker, Melinda Wagner, Wayne Peterson, Leslie Bassett, Lewis Spratlan, Richard Wernick, Synchronisms No. 6 for Piano and Electronic Sound. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 342. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 December 2, 1990) was an American nationalist composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers". Copland's music achieved a balance between modern music and American folk styles. The open, slowly changing harmonies of many of his works are said to evoke the very vast American landscape. He also incorporated percussive orchestration, changing meter, polyrhythms, polychords, and tone rows in a broad range of works for concert hall, theater, ballet, and films. Aside from composing, Copland was a teacher, lecturer, critic, writer, and conductor (generally, but not always, of his own works). Aaron Copland Sch...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=51298 ... Read more

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Follow-Up to "A Tale of Two Readers"
Thinking that the passage of a year, from Wooldridge's 1974 "From the Steeples and Mountains" to this 1975 "Charles Ives: A Portrait," might have been sufficient time for the author to have corrected a few of his more outrageous claims, I acquired this edition too. It is in fact the same book, photolithographed in the U.K. from the U.S. plates, with all claims (and errors) intact. The 1974 U.S. printing is of higher quality; it is recommended over this one for those who MUST have a copy of this book. A slighly-revised review of that 1974 U.S. edition appears below.

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No, gentle reader; this is not Dickens. But it might be about giving someone the dickens for taking excessive liberties with an interesting subject. Nor is it about "...the best of times and the worst of times." But it might be said that this book once had its "best of times," and that its "Use By" date is long gone, making six-day-old cod a rather more appealing olfactory experience.

Consider two readers, separated by three decades.

Reader No. 1, an Ivesian flush with the excitement of the 1974 Ives centennial, looking for biographical material on Ives beyond the 1955 book by Henry and Sidney Cowell, acquires this book when released. He struggles with the unusual prose style, a nearly indecipherable mix of "original Wooldridge" narrative, quotations from Ives's "Memos" and other documents,and parenthetical "asides" by Wooldridge that tease but do not satisfy. Nonetheless, he perseveres and comes away with an Ives "psychobiography" that to him seems "about right"; nothing of importance appears to have been overlooked, and if Wooldridge's insights into Ives come across as idiosyncratic, well, Ives WAS idiosyncratic.

In the process, Reader No. 1 doesn't pay heed to a Wooldridge account, on pp. 150-151, about Gustav Mahler performing Ives's 3rd Symphony in Munich in the summer of 1910, nor does he rise to a tantalizing follow-up to this event, described on p. 206. He is, after all, interested in Ives, not Mahler.

Reader No. 2, a Mahlerite as well as an Ivesian with a different set of priorities, finally - nearly three decades after its publication - acquires this book. He knows it by reputation only, one based on references to it made by writers on Ives and Mahler. (These references are too numerous to elucidate, and, in any event, it is perhaps best that these writers NOT be named. A minority of them openly question the Wooldridge account; in fairness to those who did not, it's best not to mention even the doubters.)

He is well aware that Ives knew Mahler by virtue of attending Mahler-led performances by the New York Philharmonic-Society Orchestra. (Ives mentions Mahler not only in his 1931 "Memos" but in his much earlier "Essays Before a Sonata" as well.) Perhaps on factual grounds, or simply as an "article of faith," he accepts that Mahler visited Ives's copyist, leaving the establishment with an inked copy of the full score to the Ives 3rd Symphony. He is not entirely satisfied with Ives's dating of this event as being in 1911; it would have had to have been in the early months of 1911 for this transaction to be possible. As for Mahler performing it in 1911, he knows this is impossible; Mahler's failing health - beginning in late February and ending with his death in May - ensured that it didn't happen in 1911. But did it perhaps happen in 1910, per Wooldridge?

Having his newly-acquired copy of Wooldridge, he turns to pp. 150-151 and reads about the "Munich account." It is - let him not mince words - fantastical. Alarms go off, sending him back to the beginning of the book, to gain a better sense of context.

His struggle with Wooldridge's stylistic idiosyncrasies matches that of Reader No. 1. With the benefit of three additional decades of Ives scholarship, he recognizes that Wooldridge's "psychobiography" is premature, incomplete, and full of solecisms too numerous to detail; the book is "damaged goods." Most remarkable of all is that there IS no context surrounding the "Munich account"; it is a total stylistic anomaly, seemingly dropped in gratuitously. And, while it answers no questions to anyone's satisfaction, it raises many, including:

* Did Walter Damrosch do a "reading" of Ives's 3rd Symphony, against indications to the contrary?

* If this reading led to Mahler's telephoning Harmony Ives, did she record it in "Our Book" (the diary that the Iveses kept)?

* Who was the American conductor who, in 1954, conducted the Ives 3rd in the Munich Deutsches Museum performance attended by Wooldridge?

* Has anyone done a handwriting analysis of a note, allegedly left by Mahler at the Deutsches Museum in 1910, referencing the copying of parts that might have been for the Ives 3rd?

* Does the Mahler note in fact even exist?

Yes, gentle reader, you have me correctly figured as Reader No. 2. And that I have some research yet to do.

In fairness to Wooldridge, he provides a helpful overview of Ives's songs and their background. For this, I give him one additional star above the bare minimum.

As for the rest, well, you were amply warned, weren't you?

Those wishing to know about the life of Ives are recommended to read Jan Swafford's "Charles Ives: A Life with Music" or Stuart Feder's "The Life of Charles Ives". The aesthetics of his compositional process are well set out in his own "Essays Before a Sonata" and in J. Peter Burkholder's "Charles Ives and His World." Recollections by people who knew him are splendidly captured in Vivian Perlis's "Charles Ives Remembered."

And, finally, if you have your heart set on reading about Mahler's Munich performance of the work, you owe it to yourself to read Carter Scholz's title story in his "The Amount to Carry." It is hardly more fantastical than Wooldridge's account, and much better written besides.

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Chapters: Scott Joplin, Charles Ives, Roger Voisin, Sigurd Raschèr, Alan Shulman, David Holsinger, Robert Moran, Charlie Albright, Leroy Anderson, Stephanie Chase, Thomas Z. Shepard, Richard Stoltzman, Herbert L. Clarke, John-Edward Kelly, Frederick Hemke, Marcus Thompson, Steven Lubin, Richard Niles, Elizabeth Wagele, Lincoln Holroyd, David J. Sosnowski, Kenneth Tse, Eugene Rousseau, James Houlik, Linda Maxey, Steve Duke, Fenno Heath, Eugenia Zukerman, Don Smithers, David Thomas Roberts, Walter Murphy, Anton Torello, Ray Lynch, Gary Karr, Lawrence Gwozdz, Albert Riemenschneider, Scott Ross, Leonora Speyer, Carter Brey, Lawrence Maxey, Michael Benjamin Nigrin, Ronald Thomas, Laurence Wyman, Debra Richtmeyer, Cynthia Phelps, James Wayne, Luther Henderson, Charles Neidich, Hal Robinson, Mona Golabek, Keith Wilson, Robert D. Levin, George Whiting, Warren Benfield, Steven Ansell, Paul Cohen, Terrell Stone, Lin Chien-Kwan, Roger Greenberg, Lynn Chang, Lee Patrick, Jay Easton, Harry White, Robert Starer, Stephen Montague, Temple Painter, David Weber, Orli Shaham, Maurita Murphy Mead, Jeffrey Douma, Harold Wright, John Sampen, Lorne Munroe, Julian Gargiulo, Norman J. Hunt, Janee Munroe, John Moore, David Shifrin, Frederic Hemke, Sondra Radvanovsky, Robert Barto, John Rommel, Walt Ribeiro, Alan Curtis, D. Stanley Hasty, Thomas Hill, Amy R. Martin, John Worley, Larry Teal, David Breeden, Margaret Baxtresser, Mary Canberg, Gordon Stout, Ronald Caravan, Kemper Harreld, Charley Wilkinson, Therese Park, Timothy Mcallister, Keith E. House, Ted Puffer, Al Kavelin, Simeon Bellison, Fred Sherry, Max Dimoff, Daniel Bonade, Duo Concertante, Eugene Luening, Ruth Cunningham. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 393. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Scott Joplin (between July 1867 and January 1868 April 1, 1...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=29603 ... Read more