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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32625666 Title: Charles Ives : a life with music Author: Jan Swafford Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, ©1996. ISBN/ISSN: 0393038939 9780393038934 0393317196 9780393317190 OCLC:32625666

  
  

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Charles Ives : a life with music

Author:	Jan Swafford
Publisher:	New York : W.W. Norton, ©1996.
Edition/Format:	Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Database:	WorldCat
Summary:	This penetrating study illuminates the life and works of the enigmatic composer/insurance executive Charles Ives, whose experimental works profoundly influenced the course of American classical music in the twentieth century. In his rich and colorful biography, Jan Swafford, himself an established composer, looks at this towering, paradoxical figure and finds the consistencies lying beneath the protean surface. Using what he calls an "Ivesian" approach, Swafford sees the music and the life as forming a single story; one that is firmly rooted in Ives's Yankee background. Thus the book unfolds with a brief history of Ives's Connecticut hometown of Danbury, then describes Civil War band music, and finally draws a fascinating portrait of George Ives, Charles's remarkable father and musical mentor. We follow Ives to Yale and then to his early years in New York, as he becomes at once a composer of conventional church anthems, an unprecedented innovator in musical technique, and a rising insurance executive. After skillfully evoking the sights and sounds that influenced the composer and his music, Swafford weaves together Ives the businessman and Ives the musical explorer, always keeping the discussion of the works at a nontechnical level.  Read more...
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Subjects	Ives, Charles, -- 1874-1954. Composers -- United States -- Biography. Music View all subjects
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