From the steeples and mountains : a study of Charles Ives / David Woolridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wooldridge, David, 1927-1998.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ives, Charles, 1874-1954.

Ives, Charles.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Wooldridge, David, 1927-1998 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Hanson, Wendy, 1935-1991 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

342, x pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

Contents:

Prelude : Danbury I ; Danbury II

First fugue : New Haven I ; New Haven II ; New Haven III ; Ricercar I

Second Fugue : New York I ; New York II ; Ricercar II

Stretto : New York III ; Hartsdale ; Redding I ; Ricercar III

Pedal point : Second ending ... ; Fermata ; ... First beginning ; Indian summer / Virgin Spring

Three protests, a varied air and variations : Three protests ... ; A varied air ; Variation I: 114 songs ; Variation II: In Re Browning et al ; Variation III: The celestial RR & other stories ; Variation IV: 2 sets / 3 places / 4 holidays ; Variation V: Concord revisited ; The breechin' under the horse's tail.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2019 from Ferrington, bookseller.

RBC copy inscribed by the author to Leopold Stokowski on 9 June 1974 on front free endpaper; typescript letter from the author to Wendy Hanson dated 10 June 1974 laid in.

RBC copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0394481100

9780394481104

0571106870

9780571106875

OCLC:

707237