Ives's second piano sonata, Concord, Mass., 1845, stands among the masterpieces of American music.
The Essays Before a Sonata was conceived by Ives as a preface of sorts to the composition. Ives's musings also explore the nature of music, discuss the source of a composer's impulses and inspiration, and offer some biting comments on celebrated masters. The writings in this collection—now featuring a comprehensive index-allow readers entry into the brilliant mind that produced some of America's most innovative musical works.
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A highly original writer, Ives can be a tough read. He follows his asides & digressions in prose much the same way as he does in music. But he dragged Transcendentalism (moaning & groaning) into the 20th Century, wrote a philosophy of insurance sales that is still consulted today, & was not afraid to call for a national referendum prior to the United States committing to war. His ideas about creativity remain, at the core, uncomfortably radical for most of his admirers. Bob Rixon, WFMU-FM
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- The Conduct Of Life by Ralph Waldo Emerson on 4 pages
- The Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne on page 40, and page 42
- Contemporary Composers by Daniel Gregory Mason in Front Matter, and page 95
- Sartor Resartus (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Carlyle on page 32, and Back Matter
- Mosses from an Old Manse (Modern Library Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne on page 40, and page 42
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- Charles Edward Ives and His Piano Sonata No. 2: "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860" by Alice S. Reed on 19 pages
- The Life of Charles Ives (Musical Lives) by Stuart Feder on 11 pages
- Ives Studies by Philip Lambert on 10 pages
- Charles E. Ives: Memos by John Kirkpatrick on 8 pages
- Charles Ives: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge Music Bibliographies) by Gayle Sherwood Magee on 8 pages
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