The Life of Charles Ives

ISBN-13: 9780521599313 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 214 str.

Stuart Feder

Opis

Ives' life (1874-1955) spanned two centuries; he grew up in the nineteenth and composed chiefly in the twentieth. His nostalgia for a simpler life in the New England town of his youth is revealed in his frequent musical quotation of songs of that earlier time: parlor and patriotic songs, hymns and gospel music that he learned from his father, a village bandmaster, and the most important influence on his life and music. This book clarifies the complexity of the man and his music--music that is uniquely autobiographical and that itself illuminates the narrative.

Recenzje

'Feder charts the course of Ive's life and work with obvious empathy … listeners new to Ives will come away with a real sense of the composer drawing on his idealised past to create music of a utopian future.' Gramophone

Spis treści

1. White city, green hills; 2. American arcady; 3. Memory and the greatest war; 4. Born in America; 5. The gilded age was the golden age; 6. Bright college years and dismal; 7. Manhood at Yale and beyond; 8. Giving up music - taking up business; 9. Ives in love; 10. The creative decade; 11. Trilogy; 12. World and cosmos; 13. Shadow and sunrise.