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A Christmas Carol (2)A Concord Symphony (2)
A Farewell to Land (2)
A Perfect Day (1)
A Scotch Lullaby (1)
A Sea Dirge (1)
A Set of Three Short Pieces for string orchestra (2)
A Song - For Anything (1)
A Son of Gambolier March (1)
A Son of a Gambolier (1)
A Symphony - New England Holidays 'Holidays Symphony' (2)
Abide with me (1)
Adeste Fideles in an Organ Prelude (1)
Aeschylus and Sophocles (1)
Afterglow (2)
An Old Flame (1)
Ann Street (2)
At the River (5)
Central Park in the Dark (6)
Charlie Rutlage (2)
Circus Band (1)
Concord Sonata (1)
Country Band March (2)
Cradle Song (3)
Decoration Day for violin and piano (2)
Decoration Day (1)
Down East (4)
Ein Ton (1)
Emerson: Concerto (1)
Emerson (1)
» Extracts
Evening (1)Feldeinsamkeit (2)
Four Transcriptions from 'Emerson' (1)
From 'Paracelsus' (1)
From The Swimmers (1)
From the Steeples and Mountains (1)
Fugue in C minor (1)
General William Booth enters into Heaven (4)
Hallowe'en (2)
Holidays Symphony (4)
Hymn for Strings (1)
Illmenau (1)
Improvisations (3) (2)
» no.1
» no.3
In Flanders Fields, S277 (1)In Re con moto et al (2)
Intermezzo (1)
In the Alley (3)
In the Mornin' (2)
Largo Risoluto no.1 (1)
Largo Risoluto no.2 (1)
Largo for violin, clarinet and piano (4)
Like a sick eagle (2)
Lincoln, the Great Commoner (2)
Maple Leaves (1)
March Intercollegiate with Anne Lisle (1)
March in F major and C major with Omega Lambda Chi (1)
March no.6 with Here's Good to Good Old Yale (1)
Memories, Very Pleasant and Rather Sad: A Charles Ives Song Set (transcr. for band by Jonathan Elkus) (1)
Memories (3)
Mirage (1)
Mists (2)
Nature's Way (1)
New England Holidays Symphony (2)
Old Home Days: Suite (arr. Elkus) (1)
Old Home Day (2)
On the Antipodes (1)
Orchestral Set no.1 'Three Places in New England' (2)
Orchestral Set no.2 (3)
Orchestral Set no.3 (1)
Overture and March 1776 (3)
Overture in G Minor (1)
Paracelsus (1)
Peaks (1)
Piano Sonata no.1 (6)
Piano Sonata no.2, op.19 'Concord' (19)
Piano Trio (7)
Pictures (1)
Postlude in F major (2)
Premonitions (1)
Processional 'Let there be light' (2)
Psalm 24 (1)
Psalm 67 (2)
Psalm 90, 'Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place' (2)
Psalm 135 (1)
Qu'il m'irait bien (1)
Quarter-Tone Pieces (3) (2)
Religion (1)
Remembrance (4)
Requiem (1)
Resolution (1)
Robert Browning Overture (3)
Rock of Ages (1)
Romanzo (di Central Park) (2)
Rosamunde (1) (1)
Rosamunde (2) (1)
Rosenzweige (1)
Rough Wind (1)
Runaway Horse on Main Street (1)
Scherzo 'Holding Your Own' (4)
Sehnsucht (1)
September (1)
Serenity (7)
Set for Theatre or Chamber Orchestra (1)
Set no.1 for small orchestra (2)
Set no.2 for small orchestra (1)
Set no.3 for small orchestra (1)
Set no.4 'Three Poets and Human Nature' (1)
Set no.5 'The Other Side of Pioneering, or Side Lights on American Enterprise' (1)
Set no.6 'From the Side Hill' (1)
Set no.7 'Water Colors' (1)
Set no.8 'Songs without Voices' (1)
Set no.9 of three pieces (1)
Set no.10 of three pieces (1)
Set of Five Take-Offs (2)
Slow March (2)
Slugging a Vampire (1)
Soliloquy, or a Study in 7ths and Other Things (1)
Soliloquy (1)
Some Southpaw Pitching (1)
Song Without (good) Words (1)
Song for Harvest Season (1)
Songs (114) (5)
Songs my mother taught me (9)
Song (1)
Spring Song (2)
String Quartet no.1 'From the Salvation Army' (3)
String Quartet no.2 (5)
Studies (4) (1)
Study no.2 (1)
Study no.9 'The Anti-Abolitionist Riots' (1)
Study no.20 (2)
Study no.21 (Some South-Paw Pitching) (2)
Study no.22 (2)
Study no.23 (2)
Sunrise (4)
Swimmers (1)
Symphony no.1 (5)
Symphony no.2 (11)
Symphony no.3 'The Camp Meeting' (7)
Symphony no.4 (4)
Tarrant Moss (1)
The Alcotts (1)
The Anti-Abolitionist Riots (1)
The Cage (2)
The Celestial Railroad (1)
The Children's Hour (2)
The Circus Band March (1)
The Circus Band (4)
The General Slocum (1)
The Gong on the Hook and Ladder (1)
The Housatonic at Stockbridge (6)
The Indians (1)
The New River (1)
The Other Side of Pioneering (1)
The Rainbow (1)
The Sea of Sleep (1)
The See'r (3)
The Side Show (5)
The Song of the Dead (1)
The South Wind (1)
The Unanswered Question (19)
The Waiting Soul (1)
The White Gulls (2)
The World's Highway (1)
The World's Wanderers (1)
There is a Certain Garden (1)
There is a Lane (1)
The things our fathers loved (1)
They are there! (2)
Thoreau (3)
Those Evening Bells (1)
Three-page Sonata (5)
Three Places in New England (5)
Three Quarter-tone Pieces for 2 pianos (1)
Through Night and Day (1)
To Edith (1)
Tolerance (1)
Tom sails away (5)
Two Slants (Christian and Pagan) (1)
Two little flowers (2)
Variations on 'Jerusalem the Golden' (1)
Variations on America (arr. Samuel Adler for string orchestra) (1)
Variations on America (orch. W Schuman) (4)
Variations on America (organ) (3)
Variations on America (6)
Varied Air and Variations (2)
Violin Sonata no.1 (3)
Violin Sonata no.2 (4)
Violin Sonata no.3 (2)
Violin Sonata no.4 'Children's Day at the Camp Meeting' (4)
Violin Sonatas nos.1-4 (1)
Vote for Names! Names! Names! (1)
Walking (2)
Walt Whitman (3)
Waltz-Rondo (2)
Waltz (3)
Washington's Birthday (2)
Watchman! (2)
Weil' auf mir (2)
West London (2)
When Stars are in the Quiet Skies (1)
Where the Eagle (2)
Widmung (1)
Wie Melodien Zieht es Mir (1)
Wiegenlied (1)
William Will (1)
Yale-Princeton Football Game (1)
Yellow Leaves (1)
Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though his music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, he came to be regarded as an "American original".[dubious – discuss] Ives combined the American popular and church-music traditions of his youth with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and quarter tones, foreshadowing many musical innovations of the 20th century.
Sources of Ives' tonal imagery are hymn tunes and traditional songs, the town band at holiday parade, the fiddlers at Saturday night dances, patriotic songs, sentimental parlor ballads, and the melodies of Stephen Foster.
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