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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung personal correspondence letters (correspondence) Criticism, interpretation, etc Personal correspondence Correspondance privée Correspondence Correspondance Biography |
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Named Person: | Charles Ives; Charles Ives; Charles Ives; Charles Ives; Charles Ives; Charles Ives; Charles Ives; Charles Ives; Charles Ives |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
J Peter Burkholder |
ISBN: | 0691011648 9780691011646 069101163X 9780691011639 |
OCLC Number: | 34658867 |
Description: | xiv, 452 pages : illustrations, portraits, music, facsimiles ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | Essays. Ives and the four musical traditions / J. Peter Burkholder -- Innovation and nostalgia: Ives, Mahler, and the origins of modernism / Leon Botstein -- Ives' Concord Sonata and the texture of music / David Michael Hertz -- Charles Ives and the American democratic tradition / Michael Broyles -- Of men and mountains: Ives in the Adirondacks / Mark Tucker -- Letters. Selected correspondence 1881-1954 / edited by Tom C. Owens -- Reviews. Selected reviews 1888-1951 / compiled by Geoffrey Block and edited by Burkholder -- Contemporary views of Ives and his music: profiles 1932-1955. Charles E. Ives / Paul Rosenfeld -- Charles E. Ives / Henry Cowell -- Charles Ives: The man and his music (excerpt) / Henry Bellamann -- An American innovator, Charles Ives / Goddard Lieberson -- Ives today: his vision and challenge / Elliott Carter -- Four symphonies by Ives / Bernard Herrmann -- Tardy recognition: emergence of Charles Ives as strongly individual figure in American music / Olin Downes -- On horseback to heaven / Paul Moor -- Posterity catches up with Ives / Howard Taubman -- Charles Ives: America's musical prophet (excerpt) / Nicolas Slonimsky -- Charles E. Ives: 1874-1954 / Leo Schrade. |
Series Title: | Bard Music Festival series.; Princeton paperbacks. |
Responsibility: | edited by J. Peter Burkholder. |
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Abstract:
Shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of ways. This volume features essays which examine Ives' relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. It also shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music.
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"This book helps us to see why Charles Ives remains such a puzzle. The distinguished Ives scholar J. Peter Burkholder has assembled an insightful four-part study [that] ... illuminate[s] the shifting history of Ives's place in American culture--and provide[s] therefore, important historical illuminations of its own."--History Read more...

