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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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Named Person: | Charles Ives; Charles Ives; Charles Ives; Charles Ives; Charles Ives; Charles E Ives |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jan Swafford |
ISBN: | 0393038939 9780393038934 0393317196 9780393317190 |
OCLC Number: | 32625666 |
Awards: | Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) 1996 |
Description: | xv, 525 pages : illustrations, portraits, music ; 24 cm |
Contents: | At home -- The music of war -- A place in the soul -- An apprenticeship -- Farewell -- A college -- Dasher at Yale -- Renunciations and apprenticeships -- La Vita Nuova -- Measuring the prospect -- Entelechy -- That beautiful shore -- Tom sails away -- A fall and a credo -- Overtures -- The work of our hands -- Advances and retreats -- Distant bells -- Postlude. |
Responsibility: | Jan Swafford. |
Abstract:
An illuminating portrait of a man whose innovative works profoundly influenced the course of twentieth-century American classical music.
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"Starred Review. A superb writer. . . . [Swafford has] brought the old curmudgeon . . . to vivid life, at once a comic and a tragic figure and in terms of his significance in American artistic life, on the level of Twain or Whitman." -- Publishers Weekly "First-rate. . . . Thoughtful, witty, instructive, this is one of the best biographies in recent memory, as warm and strangely inspiring as the man and the music it describes." -- Newsweek Read more...
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