All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing

by J. Peter Burkholder

Book Overview

Charles Ives is famous for using borrowed material in his music. Almost two hundred individual works or movements, spanning his entire career and representing more than a third of his output,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300056427
• ISBN13: 9780300056426
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 554 Pages
• Weight: 2.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Extremely important book about Ives

J. Peter Burkholder's book "All Made of Tunes" is one of the most important books about Ives's music. Burkholder's book exhaustively surveys Ives's music, identifying many ways in which Ives borrowed existing tunes (hymns, popular tunes, patriotic tunes, etc). There are many musical examples that support Burkholder's arguments, and the book also has one of the best bibliographies on Ives out there. For anyone with some musical training who's interested in how Ives borrowed tunes, this book is essential.