Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Charles Ives's Birth
October 20, 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of Charles Ives's birth. We're celebrating by removing the paywall from the following selection of articles about the composer published by UC Press journals, including the Journal of the American Musicological Society, the Journal of Musicology, and 19th-Century Music. These articles will be paywall-free for a limited time.
From American Ethnographer to Cold War Icon: Charles Ives through the Eyes of Henry and Sidney Cowell
David C. Paul
Journal of the American Musicological Society (2006) 59 (2): 399–457.
Charles Ives and “Our National Malady”
Gayle Sherwood
Journal of the American Musicological Society (2001) 54 (3): 555–584.
"We Boys": Childhood in the Music of Charles Ives
David Metzer
19th-Century Music (1997) 21 (1): 77–95.
Charles Ives: Some Questions of Veracity
Maynard Solomon
Journal of the American Musicological Society (1987) 40 (3): 443–470.
The Early Styles of Charles Ives
Lawrence Starr
19th-Century Music (1983) 7 (1): 71–80.
The Transitive Multiverse of Charles Ives's “Concord” Sonata
Christopher Bruhn
Journal of Musicology (2011) 28 (2): 166–194.
"Buds the Infant Mind": Charles Ives's "The Celestial Country" and American Protestant Choral Traditions
Gayle Sherwood
19th-Century Music (1999) 23 (2): 163–189.
"Scarce Heard Amidst the Guns Below": Intertextuality and Meaning in Charles Ives's War Songs
Alan Houtchens, Janis P. Stout
Journal of Musicology (1997) 15 (1): 66–97.
The Problem of Ives's Revisions, 1973–1987
Drew Massey
Journal of the American Musicological Society (2007) 60 (3): 599–645.
The Organist in Ives
J. Peter Burkholder
Journal of the American Musicological Society (2002) 55 (2): 255–310.
Silent Narration? Elements of Narrative in Ives's The Unanswered Question
Matthew McDonald
19th-Century Music (2004) 27 (3): 263–286.
Ives's "114 [+ 15] Songs" and What He Thought of Them
H. Wiley Hitchcock
Journal of the American Musicological Society (1999) 52 (1): 97–144.
"Quotation" and Paraphrase in Ives's Second Symphony
J. Peter Burkholder
19th-Century Music (1987) 11 (1): 3–25.
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Also of interest on this anniversary:
Selected Correspondence of Charles Ives
by Charles Ives (Author), Tom Owens (Editor)
This authoritative volume of 453 letters written by and to composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) provides unparalleled insight into one of the most extraordinary and paradoxical careers in American music history. The most comprehensive collection of Ives's correspondence in print, this book opens a direct window on Ives's complex personality and his creative process. Though Ives spent much of his career out of the mainstream of professional music-making, he corresponded with a surprisingly large group of musicians and critics, including John J. Becker, Henry Bellamann, Leonard Bernstein, John Cage, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Ingolf Dahl, Walter Damrosch, Lehman Engel, Clifton J. Furness, Lou Harrison, Bernard Herrmann, John Kirkpatrick, Serge Koussevitzky, John Lomax, Francesco Malipiero, Radiana Pazmor, Paul Rosenfeld, Carl Ruggles, E. Robert Schmitz, Nicolas Slonimsky, and Peter Yates.