The Life Of Charles Ives

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: University Of Cambridge
Publisher Place: Cambridge.UK
Publisher Year: 1999
Edition: First Edition

Description: 199 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. Ives Composed Mostly In The Twentieth Century.

Publishers Description: Ives' life (1874-1955) spanned two centuries; he grew up in the nineteenth and composed chiefly in the twentieth. His nostalgia for a simpler life in the New England town of his youth is revealed in his frequent musical quotation of songs of that earlier time: parlor and patriotic songs, hymns and gospel music that he learned from his father, a village bandmaster, and the most important influence on his life and music. This book clarifies the complexity of the man and his music--music that is uniquely autobiographical and that itself illuminates the narrative.

ISBN: 9780521599313