Charles Ives and His WorldJ. Burkholder Princeton University Press, 2021 M01 12 - 466 pages 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. |
Contents
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J PETER BURK HOLDER | 35 |
LEON BOTSTE | 75 |
DAVID MICHAEL H E | 118 |
MICHAEL B ROY | 161 |
PART II | 191 |
Selected Correspondence 18811954 | 199 |
PART III | 264 |
Selected Reviews 18881951 | 273 |