Charles Ives and His World

Published by Princeton University Press 1996

Charles Ives and His World

Edited by: J. Burkholder

Volume 7 in the series The Bard Music Festival

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691223254

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

J. Peter Burkholder is Professor of Music and Associate Dean of the Faculties at Indiana University. He is the author or editor of three other books on Ives and is president of the Charles Ives Society.

Reviews

"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."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface and Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part I ESSAYS
Ives and the Four Musical Traditions J. Peter Burkholder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Innovation and Nostalgia: Ives, Mahler, and the Origins of Twentieth-Century Modernism Leon Botstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Ives's Concord Sonata and the Texture of Music David Michael Hertz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Charles Ives and the American Democratic Tradition Michael Broyles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Of Men and Mountains: Ives in the Adirondacks Mark Tucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Part II LETTERS
Selected Correspondence 1881-1954 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Part III REVIEWS
Selected Reviews 1888-1951 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
PART IV CONTEMPORARY VIEWS OF IVES AND HIS MUSIC! PROFILES 1932-1955
Charles E. Ives Paul Rosenfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Charles Ives Henry Cowell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	368
Charles Ives: The Man and His Music [Excerpt] Henry Bellamann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
An American Innovator, Charles Ives Goddard Lieberson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Ives Today: His Vision and Challenge Elliott Carter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	390
Four Symphonies by Charles Ives Bernard Herrmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	394
Tardy Recognition: Emergence of Charles Ives as Strongly Individual Figure In American Music Olin Downes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
On Horseback to Heaven: Charles Ives Paul Moor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	408
Posterity Catches Up with Charles Ives Howard Taubman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
Charles Ives—America's Musical Prophet [Excerpt] Nicolas Slonimsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	430
Charles E. Ives: 1874-1954 Leo Schrade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451