Download or read book Essays Before a Sonata and Other Writings written by Charles Ives and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1962 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ives's second piano sonata, Concord, Mass., 1845, stands among the masterpieces of American music.
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:
Download or read book Essays Before a Sonata written by Charles Ives and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the profound insights of Charles Ives with "Essays Before a Sonata," a remarkable collection that delves into the mind of one of America's most innovative composers. This volume offers a unique glimpse into Ives’ philosophy on music, exploring the roots of his creative impulses and his groundbreaking approach to composition. In "Essays Before a Sonata," Ives articulates his visionary ideas about music, providing readers with a deeper understanding of his unconventional techniques and the artistic motivations behind his work. His reflections reveal a perspective that is both timeless and ahead of its time, illustrating the essence of 20th-century musical experimentation. What if the secrets to understanding modern music lie in the thoughts and philosophies of its early pioneers? How can Ives' reflections illuminate the challenges and innovations of contemporary composition? Immerse yourself in the world of Charles Ives and explore the theoretical underpinnings that influenced his revolutionary music. "Essays Before a Sonata" is essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of modern music and the mind of a true musical trailblazer. Are you ready to explore the innovative ideas of one of America’s greatest composers? Engage with Ives’ thought-provoking essays and gain a deeper appreciation for the complexities of modern music. "Essays Before a Sonata" offers a window into the creative process of a musical genius and the theoretical foundations of his work. Don’t miss the chance to delve into the mind of Charles Ives. Purchase "Essays Before a Sonata" today and experience the profound reflections of a pioneering composer. Uncover the depths of musical innovation. Buy "Essays Before a Sonata" now and embark on a journey through the ideas that shaped 20th-century music.
Download or read book Essays Before a Sonata written by Charles Ives and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Essays Before a Sonata written by Charles Ives and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-09-17 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essays Before a Sonata" by Charles Ives. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Download or read book Essays Before A Sonata written by Charles Ives and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives is a thought-provoking collection of essays that explores the philosophical, artistic, and spiritual dimensions of music. Written as a preface to his second piano sonata, Ives delves into profound musings on the nature of composition, the role of music in society, and the transformative power of sound. Key Points: Ives' essays offer a unique and introspective perspective on the creative process and the purpose of music, blending personal reflections, philosophical insights, and musical analysis to challenge conventional notions and provoke contemplation. The book delves into the complexities of musical expression, examining the interplay between dissonance and harmony, tradition and innovation, and the exploration of unconventional techniques, inviting readers to reconsider their understanding of music and its inherent possibilities. Essays Before a Sonata is a seminal work that transcends the boundaries of music theory, appealing to both musicians and non-musicians alike. It stimulates intellectual engagement, fosters a deeper appreciation for the intricacies of composition, and invites readers to ponder the profound connections between music, philosophy, and the human experience.
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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 457 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.
Download or read book Essays Before a Sonata written by Ives Charles and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Essays Before a Sonata Classic Reprint written by Charles E. Ives and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from "Essays Before a Sonata" The following pages were written primarily as a preface or reason for the [writer's] second Pianoforte Sonata - "Concord, Mass., 1845," - a group of four pieces, called a sonata for want of a more exact name, as the form, perhaps substance, does not justify it. The music and prefaces were intended to be printed together, but as it was found that this would make a cumbersome volume they are separate. The whole is an attempt to present [one person's] impression of the spirit of transcendentalism that is associated in the minds of many with Concord, Mass., of over a half century ago. This is undertaken in impressionistic pictures of Emerson and Thoreau, a sketch of the Alcotts, and a Scherzo supposed to reflect a lighter quality which is often found in the fantastic side of Hawthorne. The first and last movements do not aim to give any programs of the life or of any particular work of either Emerson or Thoreau but rather composite pictures or impressions. They are, however, so general in outline that, from some viewpoints, they may be as far from accepted impressions (from true conceptions, for that matter) as the valuation which they purport to be of the influence of the life, thought, and character of Emerson and Thoreau is inadequate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book ESSAYS BEFORE A SONATA written by Charles 1874-1954 Ives and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book Essays Before a Sonata written by Charles Ives and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-22 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives - A Creative Genius. An American Modernist Composer. The Complete New Edition. Charles Ives (1874-1954) was probably one of the most psycho-intellectually brilliant, imaginative and flexible Americans to ever "walk the land of freedom." A graduate of Yale, he became a multi-millionaire in the American insurance industry, introducing brilliant innovations within that industry. He also, unlike a few composers, found the time and the money (being a shrewd and practical businessman) to get married and have children. His accomplishments for which he is best known, however, are those in the field of music. At the time of its composition, Ives' music was probably the most radically modern in history, and by itself had enough material to serve as the foundation of modern 20th century music. For example, at the turn of the century, this eccentric composer created band works featuring multiple melodies of multiple time signatures opposing and complimenting each other within the same piece. Ives was also a revolutionary atonal composer, who created, essentially without precedent, many atonal works that not only pre-date those of Schoenberg, but are just as sophisticated, and arguably even more so, than those of the 12-tone serialist. The following pages were written primarily as a preface or reason for the [writer's] second Pianoforte Sonata—"Concord, Mass., 1845,"—a group of four pieces, called a sonata for want of a more exact name, as the form, perhaps substance, does not justify it. The music and prefaces were intended to be printed together, but as it was found that this would make a cumbersome volume they are separate. The whole is an attempt to present [one person's] impression of the spirit of transcendentalism that is associated in the minds of many with Concord, Mass., of over a half century ago. This is undertaken in impressionistic pictures of Emerson and Thoreau, a sketch of the Alcotts, and a Scherzo supposed to reflect a lighter quality which is often found in the fantastic side of Hawthorne. The first and last movements do not aim to give any programs of the life or of any particular work of either Emerson or Thoreau but rather composite pictures or impressions. They are, however, so general in outline that, from some viewpoints, they may be as far from accepted impressions (from true conceptions, for that matter) as the valuation which they purport to be of the influence of the life, thought, and character of Emerson and Thoreau is inadequate. Among those atonal works was his second, "Concord" piano sonata, one of the finest, and some would say the finest, works of classical music by an American. It reflects the musical innovations of its creator, featuring revolutionary atmospheric effects, unprecedented atonal musical syntax, and surprising technical approaches to playing the piano, such as pressing down on over 10 notes simultaneously using a flat piece of wood. What a mischievious creative genius! And yet, despite the musically innovative nature of these works, from a thematic standpoint, they are strictly 19th century. Ives, like American band-composer Sousa, consciously infused patriotic or "blue-blood" themes into his pieces. In the "Concord," he attempted to project, within the music, the 19th century philosophical ideas of the American Transcendentalists, who obviously had a great impact on his world-view.
Download or read book Freedom and the Arts written by Charles Rosen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work. Rosen cautions us to avoid doctrinaire extremes when approaching art of the past. To understand Shakespeare only as an Elizabethan or Jacobean theatergoer would understand him, or to modernize his plays with no sense of what they bring from his age, deforms the work, making it less ambiguous and inherently less interesting. For a work to remain alive, it must change character over time while preserving a valid witness to its earliest state. When twentieth-century scholars transformed Mozart's bland, idealized nineteenth-century image into that of a modern revolutionary expressionist, they paradoxically restored the reputation he had among his eighteenth-century contemporaries. Mozart became once again a complex innovator, challenging to perform and to understand. Drawing on a variety of critical methods, Rosen maintains that listening or reading with intensity-for pleasure-is the one activity indispensable for full appreciation. It allows us to experience multiple possibilities in literature and music, and to avoid recognizing only the revolutionary elements of artistic production. By reviving the sense that works of art have intrinsic merits that bring pleasure, we justify their continuing existence.
