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Most of the tracks are related to the "Emerson" movement of the Concord Sonata, and proved useful in the reconstruction of the Emerson Concerto. [5] However, Ives also recorded sections of the "Hawthorne" movement of the Sonata, and "The Alcotts" in its entirety, as well as excerpts from his Studies for piano and his First Symphony, [7] plus a raucous version of the song "They Are There!"
Ives's career and dedication to music began when he started playing drums in his father's band at a young age. Ives published a large collection of songs, many of which had piano parts. He composed two string quartets and other works of chamber music , though he is now best known for his orchestral music .
19 Songs Ives see Tarrant Moss, replaced for copyright reasons Smoke Soliloquy A Son of a Gambolier Come join my humble ditty 54 Ives? Song A Song—For Anything: a. When the waves softly sigh; b. Yale, Farewell!; c. Hear My Prayer, O Lord 89 Song for Harvest Season The Song of the Dead [lost] Song without words [I] Song without words [II]
The beginning of the Concord Sonata, first edition. The sonata's four movements represent figures associated with transcendentalism.In the introduction to his Essays Before a Sonata [13] [14] (published immediately before the Concord Sonata, and serving as what Henry and Sidney Cowell called "an elaborate kind of program note (124 pages long)" [15]), Ives said the work was his "impression of ...
Three Places in New England was composed between 1903 and 1929. The set was completed in 1914 but was later revised for performance in 1929. The second piece, Putnam’s Camp, Redding, Connecticut was created from two short theater orchestra pieces composed by Ives in 1903.
Ives traveled about the U.S. as an itinerant singer during the early 1930s, earning his way by doing odd jobs and playing his banjo. He was jailed in Mona, Utah, for vagrancy and for singing "Foggy Dew" (an English folk song), which the authorities decided was a bawdy song. [11] Around 1931, he began performing on WBOW radio in Terre Haute ...
The composer in 1913. Ives composed The Unanswered Question, subtitled "(a Cosmic Landscape)" in Ives's work papers, [12] in 1908 (though it is often erroneously dated 1906), [1] and revised it in 1930–1935, at which time he included a 13-bar introduction, made the woodwind parts more dissonant, and added further dynamic and articulation indications. [13]
Ives was inspired to write Decoration Day after listening to his father's marching band play on Decoration Day. The marching band would march from the Soldiers' Monument at the center of Danbury to Wooster Cemetery, and there Ives would play "Taps". The band would leave often playing Reeves's "Second Regiment Connecticut National Guard March". [10]