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• Title:Charles Ives's Concord : essays after a sonata / Kyle Gann.
  
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• Author/Creator:Gann, Kyle, author.
  
• Published/Created:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ML410.I94 G36 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Ives, Charles, 1874-1954. Sonatas, no. 2, piano.
  Ives, Charles, 1874-1954. Essays before a sonata.
  Ives, Charles, 1874-1954--Criticism and interpretation.
  
• Description:xiii, 438 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm
  
• Series:Music in American life.
  
• Summary: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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780252040856 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  0252040856 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  9780252099366 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Story of the Concord Sonata, 1911
  1947
  ch. 2 Programmatic Argument and Henry Sturt
  ch. 3 Human Faith Theme and the Whole-Tone Hypothesis
  ch. 4 "Emerson": The Essay
  ch. 5 "Emerson": The Music
  ch. 6 "Emerson" Concerto and Its Offshoots
  ch. 7 Hawthorne and The Celestial Railroad
  ch. 8 "Hawthorne"
  ch. 9 "The Alcotts"
  ch. 10 "Thoreau": The Essay
  ch. 11 "Thoreau": The Music
  ch. 12 Harmony of Imperfections: The Epilogue
  ch. 13 First Piano Sonata
  ch. 14 Editions (1920 versus 1947) and Performance Questions.