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The Music of Charles Ives - J. Peter Burkholder

The Music of Charles Ives

Unending Variations on America
Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2020
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-4794-9 (ISBN)
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Award-winning music historian J. Peter Burkholder explores Charles Ives's diverse musical output and unusual career, discussing about thirty of the best and most characteristic pieces framed with biographical sketches. Offering readers of any background a guide to listening, this book is an ideal introduction to the iconic, American composer.
Charles Ives is widely regarded as the first, great American composer of classical music. But listening to his music is an adventure-hearing how a piece begins may not prepare you for what comes next, or how it ends. Knowing one Ives piece may not prepare you for another.

Award-winning music historian J. Peter Burkholder provides an introduction to the composer's diverse musical output and unusual career to readers of any background, discussing about thirty of the best and most characteristic pieces framed with biographical sketches. Burkholder shows how Ives mastered each tradition he encountered: from American popular music to classical European genres, from Protestant church music to his own unique experimental idiom, and interweaving elements from all these traditions in the astonishing works of his maturity.

Burkholder provides compelling and accessible walkthroughs of select pieces, bringing the music alive and guiding listeners to a newfound appreciation of the composer. Ultimately, it reveals that there is an Ives piece for everyone

J. Peter Burkholder is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He is the author of the recent editions of A History of Western Music (2014, with Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca) and Norton Anthology of Western Music (with Claude V. Palisca), His research has won awards from the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and ASCAP, among others. He has served as President of the American Musicological Society and of the Charles Ives Society.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Timeline
Introduction

Chapter 1: A Most Unusual Career, and a Recital of Songs
Memories * The Circus Band * Walking * The Cage * Down East * General William Booth Enters into Heaven

Chapter 2: An American Musical Childhood
Holiday Quickstep * Variations on "America"

Chapter 3: Apprenticeship
Feldeinsamkeit * Ich grolle nicht * Symphony No. 1 in D Minor

Chapter 4: Weaving the Threads
String Quartet No. 1 * Psalm 67 * Yale-Princeton Football Game

Chapter 5: Seeking and Finding
Central Park in the Dark * The Unanswered Question

Chapter 6: Synthesizing American and European Music
Symphony No. 2

Chapter 7: A New Form
Symphony No. 3: The Camp Meeting * The Violin Sonatas

Chapter 8: American Holidays
A Symphony: New England Holidays

Chapter 9: American Histories
Orchestral Set No. 1: Three Places in New England * Orchestral Set No. 2

Chapter 10: American Literature
Piano Sonata No. 2: Concord, Mass., 1840-1860

Chapter 11: Transcendent Journeys
String Quartet No. 2 * Symphony No. 4

Chapter 12: Collecting Songs, and Late Works
114 Songs * Psalm 90

Epilogue
Selected Reading
Selected Listening
About the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.4.2021
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10 1-4422-4794-0 / 1442247940
ISBN-13 978-1-4422-4794-9 / 9781442247949
Zustand Neuware
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