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Charles Ives, working as an insurance executive by day and a composer by night for all the years of his artistic career, produced relatively few large-scale works in long forms: two piano sonatas, four violin sonatas, four symphonies, a cantata, and an overture.Most of his music is in short forms, such as songs and brief piano or orchestral chamber music works, and even some major works are.
As a matter of fact, it is the transcendent sound of Ives’s music which produces in me this embarrassing effect. This happened to me first in the winter of 1938-9, the first time I heard an Ives work in performance; Radiana Pazmor sang “General William Booth Enters Heaven,” and I was for it.
First recording: songs General William Booth and God Bless and Keep Thee (Radiana Pazmor (S) and Genevieve Pitot (pf), for New Music Quarterly Recordings, issued in 1935) Dec 6. 1949: First publication: Tone Roads No. 1, New York: Peer International 1962.
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Ives’ four symphonies make a strange and fascinating set. Heard back-toback, as Hyperion presents them, the First and Fourth symphonies seem galaxies apart. The First (1900), composed while Ives was studying with Horatio Parker at Yale University, is an affectionate (and also occasionally irreverent) homage to the great symphonic essays of.
The songs chosen for analysis in this paper all have. At the River, Serenity, Charlie Rutlage, and General William Booth Enters Into Heaven range in difficulty at multiple levels and will provide the building blocks for how a student should learn and study a piece of music: through style,. Charles Ives, General William Booth Enters Into.
I agree that William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony is brilliant and overdue for a revival. I had also wondered about how connections could be drawn to Ives’s work—in college as a music composition student, I remember falling head over heels in love with Ives’s “General William Booth Enters Heaven,” which uses the song “Are You Washed in the Blood” to such eerie, disturbing effect.