Breaking Time''s Arrow - Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives

Matthew McDonald is Associate Professor of Music at Northeastern University.

List of contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Ives and Time

Part I: Three Dualities

1. God/Man: I Come to Thee and Psalm 14

2. Community/individual: Sonata No. 1 for Piano and String Quartet No. 2

3. Intuition/expression: "Nov. 2, 1920" and "Grantchester"

Part II: Contexts and Methodologies

4. Elements of Narrative: The Unanswered Question

5. Ives and the Now: "The Things Our Fathers Loved"

6. Cumulative Composition: Ives's Emerson Music

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Matthew McDonald is Associate Professor of Music at Northeastern University.

Summary

Argues that the influence of Emerson and Thoreau on Charles Ives' compositional style freed the composer from ordinary ideas of time and chronology, allowing him to recuperate the past as he reached for the musical unknown.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Mcdonald, McDonald Matthew
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.2014
• EAN: 9780253012739
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01273-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Musical Meaning and Interpreta; Musical Meaning and Interpretation; Musical Meaning and Interpreta
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs