Ives Concord Sonata Piano Sonata No2

Author : Geoffrey Holden Block
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052149656X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ives: Concord Sonata written by Geoffrey Holden Block and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-13 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Geoffrey Holden Block
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ives : Concord Sonata : Piano Sonata No.2 written by Geoffrey Holden Block and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Ives
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486488632
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Piano sonata no. 2 written by Charles Ives and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ives' famous work features four movements inspired by Concord, Massachusetts–based literary figures. This edition includes essays on Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and Thoreau from the 1920 Knickerbocker edition plus an informative Introduction.

Author : Charles Ives
Publisher : New York : Knickerbocker Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7Z/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays Before a Sonata written by Charles Ives and published by New York : Knickerbocker Press. This book was released on 1920 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alice S. Reed
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 141204474X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Edward Ives and His Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass. 1840-1860" written by Alice S. Reed and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Ives' greatest music teacher was his father. His father was Danbury's musical leader, teaching any musical instrument needed. He was the Civil War band leader and carried out experiments in sound (for example, sounds made when three or four bands played together in different keys). His son, Charles Edward, tried to do those sounds in multiple keys, no one could play the music. It was terribly hard. Those who tried it, gave up. They called him a "crackpot," or an untrained musician and made fun of him. At Yale, he was told to follow the rules. His instructor disapproved of his music, so Ives performed one way in school and followed his own muse at home. When he finished at Yale, he had decided that he could not make a living with his music. He got a job at an insurance company for five dollars a week. Soon, he and a friend went into partnership and made a good living in the insurance business. He kept writing at night and storing it in his barn. Ives' dual life as a composer and business man led to a physical breakdown in 1918, which left him with permanent cardiac damage. During his long convalescence, he went through his music and had it published and sent to anyone he thought might be interested. It was not to be copyrighted and anyone who wanted a copy was to have one. Slowly, a few people learned to play parts of it. In 1939, John Kirkpatrick learned and played the Concord Sonata. People liked it and he repeated it. Ives' music began to be heard and liked so much so that by the time of his death in 1954, he had become an almost legendary figure. Ives way of musical notation resulted in his being called the first American to write 20th Century music.

Author : Kyle Gann
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252099362
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Ives's Concord written by Kyle Gann and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1921, insurance executive Charles Ives sent out copies of a piano sonata to two hundred strangers. Laden with dissonant chords, complex rhythm, and a seemingly chaotic structure, the so-called Concord Sonata confounded the recipients, as did the accompanying book, Essays before a Sonata . Kyle Gann merges exhaustive research with his own experience as a composer to reveal the Concord Sonata and the essays in full. Diffracting the twinned works into their essential aspects, Gann lays out the historical context that produced Ives's masterpiece and illuminates the arguments Ives himself explored in the Essays . Gann also provides a movement-by-movement analysis of the work's harmonic structure and compositional technique; connects the sonata to Ives works that share parts of its material; and compares the 1921 version of the Concord with its 1947 revision to reveal important aspects of Ives's creative process. A tour de force of critical, theoretical, and historical thought, Charles Ives's Concord provides nothing less than the first comprehensive consideration of a work at the heart of twentieth century American music.

Author : Ken Palmer
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Performer's Guide to Charles Ives' Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860" ; Quintet for Piano and Strings written by Ken Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Robert Palmer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Performer's Guide to Charles Ives' Piano Sonata No. 2 written by Kenneth Robert Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Ives
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
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Download or read book Piano Sonata No. 2 written by Charles Ives and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Ives
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
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Download or read book Piano Sonata No.2 written by Charles Ives and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: