Ives, Concord sonata : piano sonata no. 2 ("Concord, Mass., 1840-1860") / Geoffrey Block.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Block, Geoffrey Holden, 1948- author.

Series:

Cambridge music handbooks.

Cambridge music handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ives, Charles, 1874-1954. Sonatas--piano--no. 2.

Ives, Charles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 114 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Charles Ives's massive Concord Sonata, his second sonata for piano, named after the town of Concord in Massachusetts, is central to his output and clearly reflects his aesthetic perspective. Geoffrey Block's wide-ranging 1996 account of the work thus provides an ideal introduction to this fascinating composer. As well as a discussion of the Sonata's reception history from 1920 to the time of publication, and a chapter on its compositional genesis, this handbook includes a detailed narrative of the motivic content as well as a historical and analytical survey of the work's borrowings, both certifiable and newly proposed. The programmatic element of the Sonata is explored in the context of Ives's personal vision of four literary subjects associated with the town of Concord between 1840 and 1860: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and the Alcotts.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-109) and index.

ISBN:

1-139-08517-4

0-511-62016-0

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07624 hdl