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Charles Ives is famous for using borrowed material in his music. Almost two hundred individual works or movements, spanning his entire career and representing more than a third of his output, incorporate music by other composers or from his own previous work. In this book, the eminent Ives scholar J. Peter Burkholder identifies the different kinds of "quotations" in Ives's music, explores the complex musical, aesthetic, and psychological motivations behind the borrowings, and shows the purpose, techniques, and effects that characterize each one.Burkholder catalogues fourteen distinct ways that Ives borrowed, ranging from direct quotation to paraphrase, variation, collage, modeling, and stylistic allusion. Arguing that these borrowing procedures were compositional strategies, he provides a new perspective on Ives's process of composition. In addition, by tracing the development of Ives's borrowing practices through his career, he contributes to an understanding of the composer's stylistic evolution. And by showing how much of Ives's music uses borrowing procedures that are common to many composers, he reveals that Ives is not as far removed from the classic-romantic tradition as has been thought. Finally, Burkholder's comprehensive treatment of Ives's borrowing techniques offers a new perspective on the entire field of musical borrowing.

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.

The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what’s important, where it fits and why it matters. Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story of people, their choices and the western musical tradition that emerged. From chant to hip-hop, he connects past to present to create a context for tomorrow’s musicians.

The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what’s important, where it fits and why it matters. Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story of people, their choices and the western musical tradition that emerged. From chant to hip-hop, he connects past to present to create a context for tomorrow’s musicians.

The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what’s important, where it fits, and why it matters. Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story of people, their choices, and the western musical tradition that emerged. From chant to hip-hop, he connects past to present to create a context for tomorrow’s musicians.

The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what’s important, where it fits and why it matters. Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story of people, their choices and the western musical tradition that emerged. From chant to hip-hop, he connects past to present to create a context for tomorrow’s musicians.

Performers include:• Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholars• Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renée Fleming, and Joan Sutherland• Cellist Yo-Yo Ma• Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Malcolm Bilson, and Artur Rubenstein• The Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra• Conductors Pierre Boulez, John Eliot Gardiner, James Levine, and Michael Tilson Thomas• String quartets, such as the Concord String Quartet and the Tokyo String Quartet• Jazz artists Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie

Performers include:• Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholars• Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renée Fleming, and Joan Sutherland• Cellist Yo-Yo Ma• Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Malcolm Bilson, and Artur Rubenstein• The Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra• Conductors Pierre Boulez, John Eliot Gardiner, James Levine, and Michael Tilson Thomas• String quartets, such as the Concord String Quartet and the Tokyo String Quartet• Jazz artists Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie

Performers include:• Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholars• Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renée Fleming, and Joan Sutherland• Cellist Yo-Yo Ma• Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Malcolm Bilson, and Artur Rubenstein• The Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra• Conductors Pierre Boulez, John Eliot Gardiner, James Levine, and Michael Tilson Thomas• String quartets, such as the Concord String Quartet and the Tokyo String Quartet• Jazz artists Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie

Charles Ives is widely regarded as the first great American composer of classical music. But listening to his music is an adventure—hearing how a piece begins may not prepare you for what comes next, or how it ends. Knowing one Ives piece may not prepare you for another.Award-winning music historian J. Peter Burkholder provides an introduction to the composer’s diverse musical output and unusual career to readers of any background, discussing about forty of the best and most characteristic pieces framed with biographical sketches. Burkholder shows how Ives mastered each tradition he encountered, from American popular music to classical European genres, from Protestant church music to his own unique experimental idiom, and then interwove elements from all these traditions in the astonishing works of his maturity. Listening to Charles Ives contains compelling walkthroughs of select pieces and ultimately reveals that there is an Ives piece for everyone.