September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
American composer Charles Ives lived a life that reflected the dual nature of his writing. A successful businessman by day and an eccentric composer by night,1 Ives wrote a body of work that swung wildly between conventional and experimental.
Ives’s music reflects several profound influences. His father, George, the town bandmaster, loved to experiment with sound. The folk music and hymnody of his native New England also affected him deeply. Finally there was transcendental philosophy, espoused by Romantic writers like Emerson, a belief in self-determination that Ives ...
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