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Charles Ives Reconsidered

  • ISBN-13: 9780252077760
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Gayle Sherwood Magee
  • Price: AUD $58.99
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  • Local release date: 15/03/2008
  • Format: Paperback 231 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Music [AV]
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009An engaging reassessment of the seminal American composerCharles Ives Reconsidered reexamines a number of critical assumptions about the life and works of this significant American composer, drawing on many new sources to explore Ives's creative activities within broader historical, social, cultural, and musical perspectives. Gayle Sherwood Magee offers the first large-scale rethinking of Ives's musical development based on the controversial revised chronology of his music. Using as a guide Ives's own dictum that ''the fabric of existence weaves itself whole,'' Magee portrays Ives's life, career, and posthumous legacy against the backdrop of his musical and social environments from the Gilded Age to the present. The book includes contemporary portraits of the composer, his peers, and his teachers, as seen through archival materials, published reviews, and both historical and modern critical assessments.

"Magee's provocative and insightful new biography of Charles Ives examines the man, his legend, his music, and its reception. An important work."--Journal of the Society for American Music

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