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Ives, Concord sonata : piano sonata no. 2 ("Concord, Mass., 1840-1860") / Geoffrey Block.

By: Block, Geoffrey Holden, 1948-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Cambridge music handbooks.Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996Description: xi, 114 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 052149821X .Subject(s): Ives, Charles, 1874-1954DDC classification: 786.2183092 IVE
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Charles Ives's massive Concord Sonata, his second sonata for piano, named after the town of Concord in Massachusetts, is central to his output and clearly reflects his aesthetic perspective. Geoffrey Block's wide-ranging 1996 account of the work thus provides an ideal introduction to this fascinating composer. As well as a discussion of the Sonata's reception history from 1920 to the time of publication, and a chapter on its compositional genesis, this handbook includes a detailed narrative of the motivic content as well as a historical and analytical survey of the work's borrowings, both certifiable and newly proposed. The programmatic element of the Sonata is explored in the context of Ives's personal vision of four literary subjects associated with the town of Concord between 1840 and 1860: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and the Alcotts.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-109) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Reception
  • 3 Genesis
  • 4 Form and design
  • 5 Borrowing
  • 6 The programme