Charles Ives and the Classical Tradition
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Edited by Geoffrey Block and J. Peter Burkholder
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Although Charles Ives has long been viewed as the quintessential American composer, he placed himself in the European classical tradition, drew on it heavily for his aesthetic philosophy and musical techniques, and extended it to create something new. This book illuminates Ives's music by comparing it with that of other composers in Europe and the United States.
Edited by two highly regarded Ives scholars, the book begins with essays that examine the influences on Ives of his musical predecessors and concludes with essays that find extensive parallels between Ives and such European contemporaries as Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, and Stravinsky, whose music he knew little or not at all, but with whom he shared influences and concerns. Taken together, these chapters demonstrate that even apparently strange or distinctively American aspects of Ives's music--from his penchant for quotation to his juxtaposition of disparate styles--have strong precedents and parallels among European composers. Ives emerges as a composer at home in the classical tradition, engaged in exploring the same issues that confronted composers of his generation on both sides of the Atlantic.
Edited by two highly regarded Ives scholars, the book begins with essays that examine the influences on Ives of his musical predecessors and concludes with essays that find extensive parallels between Ives and such European contemporaries as Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, and Stravinsky, whose music he knew little or not at all, but with whom he shared influences and concerns. Taken together, these chapters demonstrate that even apparently strange or distinctively American aspects of Ives's music--from his penchant for quotation to his juxtaposition of disparate styles--have strong precedents and parallels among European composers. Ives emerges as a composer at home in the classical tradition, engaged in exploring the same issues that confronted composers of his generation on both sides of the Atlantic.
Geoffrey Block is professor of music at the University of Puget Sound and the author of Charles Ives: A Bio-bibliography and the Cambridge Music Handbook on Ives's Concord Sonata. J. Peter Burkholder is associate professor of music at Indiana University and president of the Charles Ives Society. His previous books include All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing and Charles Ives: The Ideas Behind the Music, both published by Yale University Press.
ISBN: 9780300061772
Publication Date: May 29, 1996
Publication Date: May 29, 1996
200 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
