Description
Book SynopsisShows 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.
Trade Review"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
Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIves and the Four Musical Traditions3Innovation and Nostalgia: Ives, Mahler, and the Origins of Modernism35Ives's Concord Sonata and the Texture of Music75Charles Ives and the American Democratic Tradition118Of Men and Mountains: Ives in the Adirondacks161Selected Correspondence 1881-1954199Selected Reviews 1888-1951273Charles E. Ives363Charles E. Ives368Charles Ives: The Man and His Music (Excerpt)373An American Innovator, Charles Ives377Ives Today: His Vision and Challenge390Four Symphonies by Charles Ives391Tardy Recognition: Emergence of Charles Ives as Strongly Individual Figure in American Music403On Horseback to Heaven408Posterity Catches Up with Charles Ives423Charles Ives - America's Musical Prophet430Charles E. Ives: 1874-1954433Index443List of Contributors454
