Memos /cCharles E. Ives ; edited by John Kirkpatrick.

Author/creator Ives, Charles
Other author Kirkpatrick, John, 1905-1991.
Format Book
Edition[1st edition].
Publication InfoNew York : W. W. Norton, [1972]
Description355 pages : illustrations, portraits, plates, music ; 25 cm
Subjects
Ives, Charles, 1874-1954.
Musicians--Correspondence.

Contents Part one. 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 -- Part two. Scrapbook. 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 -- Part three. Memories. 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) ; 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 (1832-1932).
Abstract This volume presents most of the previously unpublished writings of Charles E. Ives and is 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 the leaves 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 the author who has devotedly arranged, edited, and annotated them. Part one, "Pretext," sets forth Ives's aims, his view on music, critics, and criticism. In part two, "Scrapbook," Ives discusses his music. Part three, "Memories," is devoted to the biographical and autobiographical remembrances. The appendix consists of lists of Ives's music, other writings of Ives that round out the Memos, material clarifying Ives's relationship with people who influenced him, a play and a story Ives thought had operatic possibilities. There are three indices: a chronology of dates, an index to the music of Ives, and an index of names.
Local noteLittle-96699 - $15.00
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 76077407
ISBN039302153X

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