{"product_id":"breaking-times-arrow-experiment-and-expression-in-the-music-of-charles-ives-hardback-9780253012739","title":"Breaking Time's Arrow; Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives (Hardback) 9780253012739","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBreaking Time's Arrow\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eExperiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMatthew McDonald (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253012739\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 June 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages, 57 music exx., 5 b\u0026amp;w illus., 7 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.472 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"McDonald's work is always stimulating and never dull, consistently enriching the experience of the music. Ultimately, it also deepens our understanding of Ives the person, weaving together threads of art and biography.\"—\u003ci\u003eMusic Theory Spectrum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Overall, McDonald's book is a useful contribution to Ives scholarship . . . the book lays a solid foundation for further investigations of temporality in Ives's music.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of the Society for American Music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"McDonald investigates both the temporal and spatial effects of multidirectional motion, as well as its ramifications for understanding some of the larger philosophical issues that are raised in Ives's music.May 2015\"—\u003ci\u003eMusic \u0026amp; Letters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"McDonald brings together analytic and personal factors to sharpen the image of the composer in convincing ways. . . . This book . . . deserves a close reading. The bibliography provides a select list of scores and recordings as well as articles, books, catalogues, and unpublished commentaries. This book is recommended for college and university libraries and for readers with a music theory background.\"—\u003ci\u003eMusic Reference Services Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Matthew McDonald offers a trenchant and intellectually expansive reading of Ives's relationship to time by connecting several compositions—and indeed, the composer's larger conceptualization of the past, present, and future—to the Emersonian concept of the 'everlasting Now'. This book is a wonderfully written, important contribution to scholarship on the music of Charles Ives.\"—Gayle Sherwood Magee, author of Charles Ives Reconsidered\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Ives (1874–1954) moved traditional compositional practice in new directions by incorporating modern and innovative techniques with nostalgic borrowings of 19th century American popular music and Protestant hymns. Matthew McDonald argues that the influence of Emerson and Thoreau on Ives's compositional style freed the composer from ordinary ideas of time and chronology, allowing him to recuperate the past as he reached for the musical unknown. McDonald links this concept of the multi-temporal in Ives's works to Transcendentalist understandings of eternity. His approach to Ives opens new avenues for inquiry into the composer's eclectic and complex style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Ives and Time\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Three Dualities\u003cbr\u003e 1. God\/Man: \u003ci\u003eI Come to Thee \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePsalm 14\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e2. Community\/individual: \u003ci\u003eSonata No. 1 for Piano\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eString Quartet No. 2\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e3. Intuition\/expression: \"Nov. 2, 1920\" and \"Grantchester\"\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Contexts and Methodologies\u003cbr\u003e 4. Elements of Narrative: \u003ci\u003eThe Unanswered Question\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e5. Ives and the Now: \"The Things Our Fathers Loved\"\u003cbr\u003e 6. Cumulative Composition: Ives's Emerson Music\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523934908696,"sku":"9780253012739","price":28.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/breaking-times-arrow-experiment-and-expression-in-the-music-of-charles-ives-hardback-9780253012739","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}