Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Amadeus
Pages: 366
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4422-4794-9 • Hardback • February 2021 • $36.00 • (£28.00)
978-1-4422-4795-6 • eBook • February 2021 • $34.00 • (£26.00)
J. PETER BURKHOLDER is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He is the author of the recent editions of A History of Western Music (2019, with Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca) and Norton Anthology of Western Music (2019, with Claude V. Palisca). He has served as president of the American Musicological Society and of the Charles Ives Society.
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
Whether an experienced Ivesian or coming to the music for the first time, read, listen, and enjoy.
— Leonard Slatkin, internationally acclaimed conductor
Part deejay, part docent, J. Peter Burkholder takes us on a tour of Charles Ives’s music, clearly laying out the markers of the composer’s expertly inventive and compassionate imagination.
— Donald Berman, pianist of the CDs "The Unknown Ives" and Chair of Piano at The Longy School of Music of Bard College
Lucky Ives, to have an advocate as eloquent as Burkholder. No one knows Ives better, no one loves his music more, and no one communicates with greater verve its intensely affecting qualities.
— Richard Taruskin, author, Oxford History of Western Music
It’s a delight when a leading expert explains his specialty in simple terms, as Burkholder does here with Charles Ives. He’s given non-musicians a thruway into Ives’s complex and colorful world.
— Kyle Gann, author, Charles Ives’s Concord: Essays After a Sonata