Breaking time's arrow : experiment and expression in the music of Charles Ives / Matthew McDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonald, Matthew (Matthew James), author.

Series:

Musical meaning and interpretation.

Musical Meaning and Interpretation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ives, Charles, 1874-1954--Criticism and interpretation.

Ives, Charles.

Music & Musicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Charles Ives (1874-1954) moved traditional compositional practice in new directions by incorporating modern and innovative techniques with nostalgic borrowings of 19th century American popular music and Protestant hymns. Matthew McDonald argues that the influence of Emerson and Thoreau on Ives''s compositional style freed the composer from ordinary ideas of time and chronology, allowing him to recuperate the past as he reached for the musical unknown. McDonald links this concept of the multi-temporal in Ives's works to Transcendentalist understandings of eternity. His approach to Ives opens ne

Contents:

God/man : I come to thee and Psalm 14

Community/individual : Sonata no. 1 for piano and String quartet no. 2

Intuition/expression : "Nov. 2, 1920" and "Grantchester"

Elements of narrative : The unanswered question

Ives and the now : "The things our fathers loved"

Cumulative composition : Ives's Emerson music.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253012760

0253012767

OCLC:

890531167

Publisher Number:

2027/heb34015 hdl