Preface and AcknowledgmentsIves and the Four Musical Traditions3Innovation and Nostalgia: Ives, Mahler, and the Origins of Modernism35Ives's Concord Sonata and the Texture of Music75Charles Ives and the American Democratic Tradition118Of Men and Mountains: Ives in the Adirondacks161Selected Correspondence 1881-1954199Selected Reviews 1888-1951273Charles E. Ives363Charles E. Ives368Charles Ives: The Man and His Music (Excerpt)373An American Innovator, Charles Ives377Ives Today: His Vision and Challenge390Four Symphonies by Charles Ives391Tardy Recognition: Emergence of Charles Ives as Strongly Individual Figure in American Music403On Horseback to Heaven408Posterity Catches Up with Charles Ives423Charles Ives - America's Musical Prophet430Charles E. Ives: 1874-1954433Index443List of Contributors454
J. Peter Burkholder is Professor of Music and Associate Dean of the Faculties at Indiana University. He is the author or editor of three other books on Ives and is president of the Charles Ives Society.
"This book helps us to see why Charles Ives remains such a puzzle. The distinguished Ives scholar J. Peter Burkholder has assembled an insightful four-part study [that] ... illuminate[s] the shifting history of Ives's place in American culture--and provide[s] therefore, important historical illuminations of its own."--History
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