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Charles E. Ives Memos

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ISBN-10: 0393307565

ISBN-13: 9780393307566

Edition: 1972

Authors: John Kirkpatrick, Charles Ives

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Here are most of the previously unpublished writings of Charles E. Ives: a primary source book on this unique American composer.
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Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1972
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.30" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Preface
Pretext
Introduction as of November 1931
Introduction as of May 1932
Prunieres
Hale's editorial, Mr. Slonimsky in Paris
Henderson
Europeanism, review of The Celestial Country
Scrapbook
Introduction
Bellamann's article, earlier songs
Earlier pieces, Thanksgiving Prelude and Postlude
College marches, etc., ear stretching
Piano-drum-playing, wide-interval lines
Father
Parker, "fundamental laws"
First Symphony
Second Symphony, spirituals and gospel hymns
Third Symphony
Set for Theater or Chamber Orchestra
Other sets
Take-offs, etc.
Fourth Symphony
First Violin Sonata [called the Pre-First]
Second Violin Sonata (called the First)
Third Violin Sonata (called the Second)
Fourth Violin Sonata (called the Third)
Fifth Violin Sonata (called the Fourth)
Second String Quartet [called the Pre-Second]
A better Second String Quartet
First Piano Sonata
Men of Literature Overtures, labels
Second Piano Sonata: "Concord, Mass., 1840-60"
First Orchestral Set: "Three Places in New England"
Halloween, "workmanship"
Second Orchestral Set
Holidays Symphony, Thanksgiving
Washington's Birthday, In re con moto et al
Decoration Day
The Fourth of July, The General Slocum
A Universe Symphony
Quarter-tone and microtone systems
Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for Two Pianos
Later music
Memories
Introduction
My father and my wife
Parker
Griggs
Talmadge
Soft-ears
Rhythm, combining different rhythms
Being "good" and being "mean"
Songs without voice
Church congregations and church music
Music and business
Gospel hymns
Emasculating America for money
Concert-going and not-going
Words of one syllable
Appendices
Extant leaves of the Memos, concordance with the Cowell book
Ives's earlier Lists of Works (1929-35)
Ives's later Lists of Works (1937-50)
The 114 Songs and their reprints
Ives's note on the 67th Psalm
Ives's scholastic record (1894-98), Chadwick's visit to Parker's class (1898), and the footnote to Ich grolle nicht
Memos about the Concord Sonata (1913-29)
Questionnaires about the Concord Sonata (1935)
George's Adventure and The Majority (1919)
Broadway (1922)
Letter to John Tasker Howard (1930)
Ode to a Music Critic
George Edward Ives (1845-1894) and his family
Henry Anderson Brooks (c. 1855-1906?)
John Cornelius Griggs (1865-1932)
Joseph Hopkins Twichell (1838-1918)
Poverty Flat, 1898-1908
Julian Southall Myrick (1880-1969)
Harmony Twichell (1876-1969)
Major John Andre by Lyman Brewster (1832-1904)
The Red Patrol by Sir Gilbert Parker (1862-1932)
Chronological Index of Dates
Index of Ives's Music and Writings
Index of Names