Charles Ives Modernist Classical Music Style History !


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Author:	Larry Starr	Publisher:	Schirmer Books
ISBN-10:	0028724658	Subject:	Performing Arts
ISBN-13:	9780028724652	Topic:	Music
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	English
Publication Year:	1992	Condition:	Like New
Special Attributes:	1st Edition

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A Union of Diversities: Style in the Music of Charles Ives (Hardcover) From the publication of Henry and Sidney Cowell's pioneering Charles Ives and His Music to J. Peter Burkholder's influential Charles Ives: The Ideas behind the Music, music scholars have succeeded in reassessing Ives's broad significance in twentieth-century American music. Yet, even as the composer's works have become the subject of intensive critical debate, careful analyses of his music have increasingly become inaccessible to all but Ives specialists. In A Union of Diversities, Larry Starr offers a new understanding of Ives's extraordinary music based on the fundamental conviction that Ives need not be a specialist's composer. Starr argues that, far from being an eccentric and musically indifferent composer, Ives was genuinely engaged with the most serious and original aesthetic issues of style and coherence of his day. The key to unlocking what his music is about is style: specifically, the heterogeneity of style within a single work. Stylistic heterogeneity shatters our traditional musical expectations and simultaneously creates challenging and unprecedented expressive experiences. Using as examples Ives's incredibly diverse song literature and selected orchestral works, Starr offers a fascinating overview of the composer's complex approaches to musical style. In such well-known songs as "Tom Sails Away," "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven," and "Majority," as well as such orchestral works as "Decoration Day," Ives's imaginative use of musical materials forms distinct layers that either create new composite song styles or emphasize multiplicity. Some songs, such as "Ann Street," describe physical journeys; others, such as "The Things Our Fathers Loved," evoke "mental journeys" or the process of memory. Ives's employment of musical style in these works, while appearing to disrupt traditionally conceived continuity and unity, actually creates continuity and unity on other levels of perception.
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"A Union of Diversities: Style in the Music of Charles Ives"
by Larry Starr
Used, in good condition Hardcover w/Dust Jacket!
224 Pages, Schirmer Books Press, 1992!
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Table of Contents
Preface
A Bibliographical Note
Acknowledgments
Prelude
1 Style and Substance: Into Analysis 17
2 Juxtaposition and Sequence (I): A Walk On "Ann Street": Analysis and Its Discontents 20
3 Juxtaposition and Sequence (II): Other Tone Roads: Influence 33
4 Mental Journeys (I): Traditionalism and Modernism: Nostalgia or "Back to the Future"? 57
5 Mental Journeys (II): Quotation: Personal, "All-American," or Universal? 71
6 Juxtaposition and Sequence (III): Some Summarizing Works Performance, Professionalism, and Amateurs 80
7 Layering: Song 115
8 The Structuring of Styles: Additional Alternatives: Perfectionism and "Serenity" 132
Postlude: Is Ives a Great Composer? 149
Notes 155
A Discographical Note 163
Index of Musical Compositions 165
Index of Names 169

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A Union of Diversities by Larry Starr (1992)