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Google Preview: 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; 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; Download; Google Preview content

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