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- catalog abstract "This penetrating study illuminates the life and works of the enigmatic composer/insurance executive Charles Ives, whose experimental works profoundly influenced the course of American classical music in the twentieth century. In his rich and colorful biography, Jan Swafford, himself an established composer, looks at this towering, paradoxical figure and finds the consistencies lying beneath the protean surface. Using what he calls an "Ivesian" approach, Swafford sees the music and the life as forming a single story; one that is firmly rooted in Ives's Yankee background. Thus the book unfolds with a brief history of Ives's Connecticut hometown of Danbury, then describes Civil War band music, and finally draws a fascinating portrait of George Ives, Charles's remarkable father and musical mentor. We follow Ives to Yale and then to his early years in New York, as he becomes at once a composer of conventional church anthems, an unprecedented innovator in musical technique, and a rising insurance executive. After skillfully evoking the sights and sounds that influenced the composer and his music, Swafford weaves together Ives the businessman and Ives the musical explorer, always keeping the discussion of the works at a nontechnical level.".
- catalog contributor b8440932.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "At home -- The music of war -- A place in the soul -- An apprenticeship -- Farewell -- A college -- Dasher at Yale -- Renunciations and apprenticeships -- La Vita Nuova -- Measuring the prospect -- Entelechy -- That beautiful shore -- Tom sails away -- A fall and a credo -- Overtures -- The work of our hands -- Advances and retreats -- Distant bells -- Postlude.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [508]-512) and index.".
- catalog description "This penetrating study illuminates the life and works of the enigmatic composer/insurance executive Charles Ives, whose experimental works profoundly influenced the course of American classical music in the twentieth century. In his rich and colorful biography, Jan Swafford, himself an established composer, looks at this towering, paradoxical figure and finds the consistencies lying beneath the protean surface. Using what he calls an "Ivesian" approach, Swafford sees the music and the life as forming a single story; one that is firmly rooted in Ives's Yankee background.".
- catalog description "Thus the book unfolds with a brief history of Ives's Connecticut hometown of Danbury, then describes Civil War band music, and finally draws a fascinating portrait of George Ives, Charles's remarkable father and musical mentor. We follow Ives to Yale and then to his early years in New York, as he becomes at once a composer of conventional church anthems, an unprecedented innovator in musical technique, and a rising insurance executive. After skillfully evoking the sights and sounds that influenced the composer and his music, Swafford weaves together Ives the businessman and Ives the musical explorer, always keeping the discussion of the works at a nontechnical level.".
- catalog extent "xv, 525 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0393038939 (cloth)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.W. Norton,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "780/.92 B 20".
- catalog subject "Composers United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Ives, Charles, 1874-1954.".
- catalog subject "ML410.I94 S93 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "At home -- The music of war -- A place in the soul -- An apprenticeship -- Farewell -- A college -- Dasher at Yale -- Renunciations and apprenticeships -- La Vita Nuova -- Measuring the prospect -- Entelechy -- That beautiful shore -- Tom sails away -- A fall and a credo -- Overtures -- The work of our hands -- Advances and retreats -- Distant bells -- Postlude.".
- catalog title "Charles Ives : a life with music / Jan Swafford.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".