Ives: Concord Sonata

Piano Sonata No. 2

Geoffrey Block (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

1996
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-49821-0 (ISBN)

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Charles Ives's massive Concord Sonata, his second sonata for piano, named after the town of Concord in Massachusetts, is central to his output and clearly reflects his aesthetic perspective. Geoffrey Block's wide-ranging 1996 account of the work thus provides an ideal introduction to this fascinating composer. As well as a discussion of the Sonata's reception history from 1920 to the time of publication, and a chapter on its compositional genesis, this handbook includes a detailed narrative of the motivic content as well as a historical and analytical survey of the work's borrowings, both certifiable and newly proposed. The programmatic element of the Sonata is explored in the context of Ives's personal vision of four literary subjects associated with the town of Concord between 1840 and 1860: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and the Alcotts.

1. Introduction; 2. Reception; 3. Genesis; 4. Form and design; 5. Borrowing; 6. The programme.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.11.1996
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Music Handbooks
Zusatzinfo	31 Printed music items; 1 Tables, unspecified
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 216 mm
Gewicht	164 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
ISBN-10	0-521-49821-X / 052149821X
ISBN-13	978-0-521-49821-0 / 9780521498210
Zustand	Neuware