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Charles Ives's Concord - Essays after a Sonata (Hardcover)
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Charles Ives's Concord - Essays after a Sonata (Hardcover)
Series: Music in American Life
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In 1921, insurance executive Charles Ives sent out copies of a
piano sonata to two hundred strangers. Laden with dissonant chords,
complex rhythm, and a seemingly chaotic structure, the so-called
Concord Sonata confounded the recipients, as did the accompanying
book, Essays before a Sonata. Kyle Gann merges exhaustive research
with his own experience as a composer to reveal the Concord Sonata
and the essays in full. Diffracting the twinned works into their
essential aspects, Gann lays out the historical context that
produced Ives's masterpiece and illuminates the arguments Ives
himself explored in the Essays. Gann also provides a
movement-by-movement analysis of the work's harmonic structure and
compositional technique; connects the sonata to Ives works that
share parts of its material; and compares the 1921 version of the
Concord with its 1947 revision to reveal important aspects of
Ives's creative process. A tour de force of critical, theoretical,
and historical thought, Charles Ives's Concord provides nothing
less than the first comprehensive consideration of a work at the
heart of twentieth century American music.
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