Overview
Charles Ives (1874–1954) moved traditional compositional practice in new directions by incorporating modern and innovative techniques with nostalgic borrowings of 19th century American popular music and Protestant hymns. Matthew McDonald argues that the influence of Emerson and Thoreau on Ives's 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. McDonald links this concept of the multi-temporal in Ives's works to Transcendentalist understandings of eternity. His approach to Ives opens new avenues for inquiry into the composer's eclectic and complex style.
Full Product Details
Author: Matthew McDonald
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.472kg
ISBN: 9780253012739
ISBN 10: 0253012732
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 16 June 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Matthew McDonald offers a trenchant and intellectually expansive reading of Ives's relationship to time by connecting several compositions-and indeed, the composer's larger conceptualization of the past, present, and future-to the Emersonian concept of the 'everlasting Now'. This book is a wonderfully written, important contribution to scholarship on the music of Charles Ives. -Gayle Sherwood Magee, author of Charles Ives Reconsidered McDonald brings together analytic and personal factors to sharpen the image of the composer in convincing ways... This book... deserves a close reading. The bibliography provides a select list of scores and recordings as well as articles, books, catalogues, and unpublished commentaries. This book is recommended for college and university libraries and for readers with a music theory background. -Music Reference Services Quarterly McDonald investigates both the temporal and spatial effects of multidirectional motion, as well as its ramifications for understanding some of the larger philosophical issues that are raised in Ives's music. -Music & Letters
Matthew McDonald offers a trenchant and intellectually expansive reading of Ives's relationship to time by connecting several compositions - and indeed, the composer's larger conceptualization of the past, present, and future - to the Emersonian concept of the 'everlasting Now'. This book is a wonderfully written, important contribution to scholarship on the music of Charles Ives. - Gayle Sherwood Magee, author of Charles Ives Reconsidered
Author Information
Matthew McDonald is Associate Professor of Music at Northeastern University.
