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1. Charles E. Ives (1874-1954): Second Piano Sonata "Concord, Mass., 1840-60" (Kalmus Study Scores) by Edwin F. Kalmus | |
Paperback: 70
Pages
(1968)
Asin: B000YDMO0C Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
2. Charles Edward Ives, 1874-1954: A Bibliography of His Music by Dominique De Lerma | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1970)
Isbn: 0873380576 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
3. Biography - Ives, Charles Edward (1874-1954): An article from: Contemporary Authors by Gale Reference Team | |
Digital: 6
Pages
(2003-01-01)
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4. Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954): A selected bibliography by S Cotton | |
Unknown Binding: 22
Pages
(1976)
Asin: B0006X6H5S Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
5. Charles E. Ives: 1874-1954 by Leo Schrade | |
Unknown Binding: 545
Pages
(1955)
Asin: B0007GQHMM Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
6. A temporary mimeographed catalogue of the music manuscripts and related materials of Charles Edward Ives, 1874-1954: Given by Mrs. Ives to the Library of the Yale School of Music, September 1955 by John Kirkpatrick | |
Unknown Binding: 279
Pages
(1976)
Asin: B0007F7NZ8 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
7. Charles E. Ives, 1874-1954: Trio for violin, cello and piano (1904-1911 in Ives's list). Comparison of sources compiled in 1962-1963, using the measure-numbering of the Peer edition by John Kirkpatrick | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(1963)
Asin: B0007HZZUQ Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
8. Selected Correspondence of Charles Ives by Charles Ives | |
Hardcover: 410
Pages
(2007-06-14)
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9. Charles Ives and Aaron Copland - A Listener's Guide: Parallel Lives Series, No. 1 Their Lives and Their Music (Parallel Lives) by Daniel Felsenfeld | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2004-11-01)
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Editorial Review Amazon.com 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)
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10. Charles Ives: A Life With Music by Jan Swafford | |
Paperback: 544
Pages
(1998-01)
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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.
Accessible tale of a musical maverick with a business head
Great combination of erudition and accessibility |
11. Ives Studies | |
Paperback: 312
Pages
(2006-11-02)
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12. The Music of Charles Ives (Composers of the Twentieth Century Serie) by Philip Lambert | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(1997-07-25)
list price: US$45.00 Isbn: 0300065221 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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13. Charles Ives and His World | |
Paperback: 464
Pages
(1996-08-05)
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Editorial Review Book Description This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays examine Ives's relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. J. Peter Burkholder shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music. Leon Botstein explores the paradox of how, in the works of Ives and Mahler, musical modernism emerges from profoundly antimodern sensibilities. David Michael Hertz reveals unsuspected parallels between one of Ives's most famous pieces, the Concord Piano Sonata, and the piano sonatas of Liszt and Scriabin. Michael Broyles sheds new light on Ives's political orientation and on his career in the insurance business, and Mark Tucker shows the importance for Ives of his vacations in the Adirondacks and the representation of that landscape in his music. 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 (2)
"[...] 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 |
14. Charles Ives Remembered: AN ORAL HISTORY (Music in American Life) by Vivian Perlis | |
Paperback: 264
Pages
(2002-07-24)
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I can't overestimate the value of this priceless collection.
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15. Charles Ives: "My Father`s Song": A Psychoanalytic Biography by Stuart Feder | |
Hardcover: 368
Pages
(1992-06-24)
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Attempting to explain- away Ives While his anyalisis of the music isinteresting, it is shallow at best, picking and choosing songs and otherworks to support his claims about Ives. He delves deeply into a man, andlooses the reason Ives is someone we care about-- the music he wrote. Ives certianly had an unusual, and perhaps unhealthy, relationship withhis father, but Feder exagerates this and turns it into something unlikewhat Ives himself said it was.Feder uses this to explain Ives'eccentricites and moodiness in his later life, ignoring the fact that Ivessuffered from adult onset diabetes, which was a likely cause of that, aswell as a possible cause of George Ives' premature death. At its best,this book is a penetrating look at Charles Ives the man.At its worst, itdisenegrates into Freudan goobledey-gook of which it is difficult to makeheads or tails. ... Read more |
16. Charles Ives and His Music, by Henry, Cowell | |
Paperback:
Pages
(1969-08)
list price: US$3.95 Isbn: 0195007808 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
17. Charles Ives Reconsidered (Music in American Life) by Gayle Sherwood Magee | |
Hardcover: 216
Pages
(2008-07-18)
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18. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives by James B. Sinclair | |
Hardcover: 784
Pages
(1999-08-11)
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19. Ives: Concord Sonata: Piano Sonata No. 2 (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by Geoffrey Block | |
Paperback: 126
Pages
(1996-11-13)
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Ives seems to have bought the farm. |
20. Baseball and the Music of Charles Ives: A Proving Ground by Timothy A. Johnson | |
Paperback: 216
Pages
(2004-07-28)
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