A source book incorporating all the most important unpublished writings of America’s great composer. Here are most of the previously unpublished writings of Charles E. Ives: a primary source book on this unique American composer. These "Memos," as Ives called them, were on separate leaves and dealt with his music, composition, criticism, autobiography, biography, and many other topics. During his lifetime Ives rearranged them, lent them out, mislaid and tucked them away in books so that, in the late 1940s, only about three-fifths of them were available to his biographer. After his death in 1954, Ives's papers were gradually put in order, and in time most of the remaining leaves came to light. These two “batches” are here dovetailed into a three-part form by John Kirkpatrick, who has devotedly arranged, edited, and annotated them. Part One, “Pretext,” sets forth Ives's aims, his views on music, critics and criticism. In part Two, "Scrapbook," Ives discusses his music. Part Three, "Memories," is devoted to biographical and autobiographical remembrances.

Charles E. Ives: Memos

Biographies & Memoirs

Ives, Charles

Arts & Literature

W.W.Norton&Company

Ives's second piano sonata, Concord, Mass., 1845, stands among the masterpieces of American music. The Essays Before a Sonata was conceived by Ives as a preface of sorts to the composition. Ives's musings also explore the nature of music, discuss the source of a composer's impulses and inspiration, and offer some biting comments on celebrated masters. The writings in this collection―now featuring a comprehensive index-allow readers entry into the brilliant mind that produced some of America's most innovative musical works.

Essays Before a Sonata, The Majority, and Other Writings

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

The Piano Sonata No. 2, commonly known as the Concord Sonata, embodies many of Charles Ives' experimental techniques and ranks among his best-known and most highly regarded works. The four movements are named for Concord, Massachusetts–based literary figures associated with Transcendentalism. This edition includes the original essays on Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and Thoreau that accompanied the 1920 Knickerbocker edition.An informative Introduction by Stephen Drury, the editor of this edition and an expert performer of the work, places the Concord in its historic context. This affordably priced volume will delight intermediate- and advanced-level pianists as well as collectors and enthusiasts of twentieth-century American music.

Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord," with the Essays Before a Sonata (Dover Music for Piano)

Arts & Photography

Music

Dover `

This authoritative volume of 453 letters written by and to composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) provides unparalleled insight into one of the most extraordinary and paradoxical careers in American music history. The most comprehensive collection of Ives's correspondence in print, this book opens a direct window on Ives's complex personality and his creative process. Though Ives spent much of his career out of the mainstream of professional music-making, he corresponded with a surprisingly large group of musicians and critics, including John J. Becker, Henry Bellamann, Leonard Bernstein, John Cage, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Ingolf Dahl, Walter Damrosch, Lehman Engel, Clifton J. Furness, Lou Harrison, Bernard Herrmann, John Kirkpatrick, Serge Koussevitzky, John Lomax, Francesco Malipiero, Radiana Pazmor, Paul Rosenfeld, Carl Ruggles, E. Robert Schmitz, Nicolas Slonimsky, and Peter Yates.

Selected Correspondence of Charles Ives

Humor & Entertainment

University of California Press

Essays Before a Sonata and Other Writings

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Essays Before a Sonata: And Other Writings

Essays & Correspondence

Marion Boyars

Memos

Contemporary

Fourth of July for Orchestra

Hal.Leonard Corp.

lxxi + 527 pp.The MUSA series is copublished with the American Musicological Society.

Charles Ives: 129 Songs

A-R Editions, Inc.

A book of 114 musical song scores by composer Charles Ives.

114 Songs by Charles Ives

Merion Music

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