Ives: Concord Sonata

Download or read book Ives: Concord Sonata written by Geoffrey Block and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Ives' 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 account of the work thus provides an ideal introduction to this fascinating composer. This handbook discusses the Sonata's reception history and its compositional genesis, as well as providing a detailed account of the work's thematic content, its use of borrowed material, and the degree to which the program is influenced by the Concord Transcendentalists.