Charles Ives' massive Concord Sonata, his second sonata for piano, named after the town of Concord in Massachusetts, is central to his output and clearly reflects his aesthetic perspective. Geoffrey Block's wide-ranging account of the work thus provides an ideal introduction to this fascinating composer. This handbook discusses the Sonata's reception history and its compositional genesis, as well as providing a detailed account of the work's thematic content, its use of borrowed material, and the degree to which the program is influenced by the Concord Transcendentalists.
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This handbook discusses Charles Ives's Sonata's reception history and its compositional genesis, as well as providing a detailed account of the work's thematic content, its use of borrowed material, and the degree to which the program is influenced by the Concord Transcendentalists.
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Ives seems to have bought the farm.,
By MrGenre "mr_genre" (Spokane, WA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ives: Concord Sonata: Piano Sonata No. 2 (Cambridge Music Handbooks) (Hardcover)
For a mystery book, this novel fails at every turn. The main character, a young boy named Charlie, begins his life growing up on a farm where his father attacks him with terrible non-harmonies and atrocities music was never intended to produce. Soon, Charlie is swept up by the idea that music need not to sound pretty, and that life be filled with hesitance and incompletion. This novel falls short when it start to focus, only a few pages in, on Charlie's Second Piano Sonata. Why the auther chose this, the most unanticipated work since Garfunkel's "Songs From a Parent to a Child", on which to base a story of suspense is beyond me. The most disappointing point to all of this is that Geoffrey Block, a man with so promising a name, could fall so far from genius. Don't let his IQ fool you.
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Remarkably, the Concord Sonata was the first work Ives had offered to the public since five short compositions were published in 1896 and 1897 during his college days at Yale University. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
human faith melody, ink autograph score, musical borrowing, lyric theme, first edition copies, programmatic content, first edition copy, fugue subject Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Emerson Overture, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Fourth Symphony, New York, Musical Courier, Charles Ives, Gem of the Ocean, Loch Lomond, Henry Cowell, Max Smith, Town Hall, Country Band March, Four Transcriptions, Golliwogg's Cake-Walk, Musical America, New England, Crusader's Hymn, Elliott Carter, John Kirkpatrick, Pig Town Fling, Children's Corner, Concord Transcendentalists, Douze Préludes, Emerson Concerto, Stephen Foster New!
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Remarkably, the Concord Sonata was the first work Ives had offered to the public since five short compositions were published in 1896 and 1897 during his college days at Yale University. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
human faith melody, ink autograph score, musical borrowing, lyric theme, first edition copies, programmatic content, first edition copy, fugue subject Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Emerson Overture, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Fourth Symphony, New York, Musical Courier, Charles Ives, Gem of the Ocean, Loch Lomond, Henry Cowell, Max Smith, Town Hall, Country Band March, Four Transcriptions, Golliwogg's Cake-Walk, Musical America, New England, Crusader's Hymn, Elliott Carter, John Kirkpatrick, Pig Town Fling, Children's Corner, Concord Transcendentalists, Douze Préludes, Emerson Concerto, Stephen Foster New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories (Signet classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne on 11 pages
- Essays Before a Sonata, The Majority, and Other Writings by Charles Ives on 7 pages
- Charles Ives: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge Music Bibliographies) by Gayle Sherwood Magee on 5 pages
- Tristan and Isolde: English National Opera Guide 6 (English National Opera Guides) by Richard Wagner on 5 pages
- Charles Ives and the Classical Tradition by Professor Geoffrey Block on 4 pages
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