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List Of Compositions By Charles Ives
The compositions of American composer Charles Ives (1874–1954) are mostly modern classical music. Ives was prolific, revised works multiple times, and left ambiguous fragments with no title or notes. A chronology of works is especially difficult because of missing and sometimes misleading dates; as Elliott Carter put it in 1939: "veshas rewritten his works so many times, adding dissonances and polyrhythms, that it is impossible to tell just at what date the works assumed the surprising form we know now." This list follows James B. Sinclair's ''A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives''. It does not include fragments or projected works. Orchestra Symphonies * Symphony No. 1 in D minor (1898–1902) * Symphony No. 2 (1897–1902, revised 1910) * Symphony No. 3: ''The Camp Meeting'' (1901–1904, rev. 1911) * Symphony No. 4 (1916) * '' A Symphony: New England Holidays'' (1919) * '' Universe Symphony'' (1928, unfinished) Sets ;For orchestra * Orchestral Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calcium Light Night
''Calcium Light Night'' is a piece of music by American composer Charles Ives. It is one of his ''Cartoons or Take-Offs'' and is scored for piccolo, clarinet, cornet, trombone, bass drum, and two pianos (four players). (Ives suggested in a memo in the manuscript that this instrumentation can be expanded by using extra instruments.) In 1912 or 1913, Ives grouped ''Calcium Light Night'' with five other pieces to make ''Set No. 1'' for chamber ensemble. The piece pictures an event that occurs on the campus of Yale University that is well-described by W. E. Decrow in his book, ''Yale and the "City of Elms"''.William Emery Decrow (1882) ''Yale and the "City of Elms"'' pp. 35–36, Wright and Potter Printing Co., Boston (digitized by Google Book/ref> "Delta Kappa Epsilon, ... like its rival, Psi Upsilon, chooses about forty members from each junior class and gives out its elections in precisely the way stated in the article describing Psi Upsilon hall ..." "Psi Upsilon at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Schuman
William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910February 15, 1992) was an American composer and arts administrator. Life Schuman was born into a Jewish family in Manhattan, New York City, son of Samuel and Rachel Schuman. He was named after the 27th U.S. president, William Howard Taft, though his family preferred to call him Bill. Schuman played the violin and banjo as a child, but his overwhelming passion was baseball. He attended Temple Shaaray Tefila as a child. While still in high school, he formed a dance band, "Billy Schuman and his Alamo Society Orchestra", that played local weddings and bar mitzvahs in which Schuman played string bass. In 1928 he entered New York University's School of Commerce to pursue a business degree, at the same time working for an advertising agency. He also wrote popular songs with E. B. Marks Jr, a friend he had met long before at summer camp. Around that time, Schuman met lyricist Frank Loesser and wrote some forty songs with him. Loesser's first publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variations On "America"
''Variations on "America"'' is a composition for organ by the American composer Charles Ives. Composition Composed in 1891 when Ives was seventeen, it is an arrangement of a traditional tune, known as "America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)" (words by Samuel Francis Smith), and was at the time the de facto anthem of the United States. The tune is also widely recognised in Thomas Arne's orchestration as the British National Anthem, "God Save the King", and in the former anthems of Russia ("The Prayer of Russians", from 1816 to 1833), Switzerland ("Rufst du, mein Vaterland", until 1961), and Germany ("Heil dir im Siegerkranz", from 1871 to 1918), as well as being the current national anthem of Liechtenstein ("Oben am jungen Rhein") and the royal anthem of Norway, " Kongesangen". Ives prepared it for a Fourth of July celebration in 1892 at the Methodist church where he was organist in Brewster, New York. He performed it for the first time on February 17, 1892, and made revisions to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Sonata No
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. It was invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700. Description The word "piano" is a shortened form of ''pianoforte'', the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument, which in turn derives from ''clavicembalo col piano e forte'' (key cimbalom with quiet and loud)Pollens (1995, 238) and ''fortepiano''. The Italian musical terms ''piano'' and ''forte'' indicate "soft" and "loud" respectively, in this context referring to the variations in volume (i.e., loudness) produced in response to a pianist's touch or pressure on the keys: the grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Trio (Ives)
The Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano is a work by the American composer Charles Ives. According to his wife, the three movements of the piano trio are a reflection of Ives’ college days at Yale. He started writing the piece in 1904, six years after graduation, and completed it in 1911. It was written 1909–10 and significantly revised in 1914–15. Movements The piano trio consists of three movements. The first movement is the same 27 measures repeated three times, though the violin is silent for the first, the cello for the second, and all three instruments join for the third. The second movement, TSIAJ, employs polytonality, timbral contrast, and quotation for a downright humorous effect. Fragments of American folk songs are intertwined throughout the movement, although often grotesquely altered with respect to rhythm, pitch, and harmonic connotation. Folk songs appearing in the scherzo include "My Old Kentucky Home", "Sailor's Hornpipe", "The Campbells Are Coming", "Long, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hallowe'en (Ives)
''Hallowe'en'', also initially entitled ''Allegro vivace: Hallowe'en'', is a short composition for piano quintet by American composer Charles Ives. It was probably composed in 1907 and was part of ''Three Outdoor Scenes'', a collection of pieces that also included ''Central Park in the Dark''. Background Ives's inspiration to conceive ''Hallowe'en'' comes from his memories of childhood. As the composer himself explained, ''Hallowe'en'' is "but a take-off of a Halloween party and bonfire – the elfishness of the little boys throwing wood on the fire, etc." It was probably composed on April 1, 1906, or 1907 and revised in 1911, although the manuscript does not show dates other than "1st of April". The 1906 hypothesis is based on the fact that Ives wrote ''Hallowe'en'' while in Pine Mountain, which he visited often on Sundays since 1901; the 1907 hypothesis, however, is based on the fact that the $1 paper the piece was written on was only available from 1907. There is also a poss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
String Quartet No
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The Unanswered Question
''The Unanswered Question'' is a musical work by American composer Charles Ives. Originally paired with ''Central Park in the Dark'' as ''Two Contemplations'' in 1908, ''The Unanswered Question'' was revised by Ives in 1930–1935. As with many of Ives' works, it was largely unknown until much later in his life, and was not performed until 1946. Against a background of slow, quiet strings representing "The Silence of the Druids", a solo trumpet poses "The Perennial Question of Existence", to which a woodwind quartet of "Fighting Answerers" tries vainly to provide an answer, growing more frustrated and dissonant until they give up. The three groups of instruments perform in independent tempos and are placed separately on the stage—the strings offstage. Composition The score of ''The Unanswered Question'' printed by Southern Music Publishing in 1953 lists the following three instrumental groups: * A woodwind quartet. The foreword to the score states "If a large string orches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gong On The Hook And Ladder
''The Gong on the Hook and Ladder or Firemen's Parade on Main Street'', normally shortened as ''The Gong on the Hook and Ladder'' and also initially entitled ''Allegro moderato'', is a short composition by American composer Charles Ives. Background This piece was first composed in a very early form as a section in Charles Ives's ''Pre-Second String Quartet'', a work that he composed between 1904 and 1906, but later discarded and destroyed. Ives described the piece as a series of short movements, the material of which would later be used in other pieces, such as ''Hymn'', ''Hallowe'en'' or ''The Gong on the Hook and Ladder''. In the period between 1906 and 1916, Ives formed a professional partnership with his friend and business colleague, Julian S. Myrick, to start what eventually developed into a highly successful insurance company and married Harmony Twichell, thus moving out of "Poverty Flat", a bachelor's apartment that he shared with his friends at Yale University where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gardner Read
Gardner Read (January 2, 1913 in Evanston, Illinois – November 10, 2005 in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts) was an American composer and musical scholar. His first musical studies were in piano and organ, and she also took lessons in counterpoint and composition at the School of Music at Northwestern University. In 1932 he was awarded a four-year scholarship to the Eastman School of Music (B.M. and M.M.), where he studied with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson. In the late 1930s he also studied briefly with Ildebrando Pizzetti, and Aaron Copland. After heading the composition departments of the St. Louis Institute of Music, the Kansas City Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Read became Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Composition at the School of Music at Boston University. He remained in this post until his retirement in 1978. His Symphony No. 1, op. 30 (1937, premiered by Sir John Barbirolli) won first prize at the New York Philharmonic-S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
