Ives Studies

A collection of essays on the life and music of American composer Charles Ives.

Philip Lambert (Edited by)

9780521582773, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 January 1998

314 pages, 16 b/w illus. 27 music examples
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.63 kg

"...is a comprehensive and provocative survey of research by ten prominent Ives scholars...this collection grapples with many critical issues in Ives research and will invigorate interest in this unique American voice". Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter

Ives Studies is a collection of essays on the life and music of American composer Charles Ives (1874–1954). In it, scholars address significant issues in Ives scholarship, including the hotly debated chronology of his work, the nature of his compositional philosophy and style, and his place in music history. The essays take their place in an Ives literature that understands and demythologizes a most complex man, and that has brought enlightenments to a stunningly original body of music.

Preface
Bibliographical notes
Part I. Tradition, Revision and Chronology: 1. 'The Things our Fathers Loved': Charles Ives and the European tradition Robert P. Morgan
2. Remembrance of dissonances past: the two published editions of Ives's Concord Sonata Geoffrey Block
3. Editing Ives's 129 Songs H. Wiley Hitchcock
4. Redating Ives's choral sources Gayle Sherwood
Part II. Historical and Biographical Contexts: 5. The idea of potentiality in the music of Charles Ives Wolfgang Rathert
6. Charles Ives and the politics of direct democracy Judith Tick
7. Charles Ives and Henry David Thoreau: 'a transcendental tune of Concord' Stuart Feder
Part III. The Universe Symphony: 8. The realization and first complete performance of Ives's Universe Symphony Larry Austin
9. Ives's Universe Philip Lambert
Part IV. Envoi: 10. Ives today J. Peter Burkholder
Index.

Subject Areas: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups [AVH]