COMPOSER BIOGRAPHY – PREPARATION 9
(F-08)
For 26 Nov
Read the following
selections. They deal with Charles
Ives’s ideas – about music, philosophy, business and politics.
Frank Rossiter, Charles
Ives and His
Charles Ives, Essays
Before a Sonata (1922), 21-31;
Jan Swafford, Charles
Ives – A Life with Music (1996), 194-212; 291-305;
J. Peter Burkholder, Charles Ives – The Ideas Behind the Music
(1985), 95-109
In addition, please listen
to the first movement (Emerson) of the Concord Sonata. I put a CD and a score on reserve.
Please prepare an answer to
the following question: Explain
something in one or more of these presentations of Charles Ives’s ideas that
influences your understanding of the first movement of the Concord Sonata. (If nothing seems to be relevant to what you
hear, then discuss that.)