The Life of Charles Ives

Stuart Feder

Cambridge University Press, Sep 9, 1999 - Music - 199 pages

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.

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Contents

• White City green hills: 1
• American Arcady: 9
• The greatest war and remembrance: 22
• Born in America: 37
• The Gilded Age was the golden age: 45
• Bright college years and dreary: 61
• Manhood at Yale and Poverty Flat: 75
• Giving up musictaking up business: 88
• Ives in love: 103
• The creative decade19081918: 119
• Trilogy: 135
• World and cosmos: 149
• Shadow and sunrise: 163
• Notes: 179
• Select bibliography: 188
• Index: 189

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Life of Charles Ives; Volume 6 of Musical Lives
• Author: Stuart Feder
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0521599318, 9780521599313
• Length: 199 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians; Music / General; Music / Individual Composer & Musician