Charles Ives: My Fathers Song: A Psychoanalytic Biography

by Stuart Feder

Book Overview

"A sound of a distant horn

O'er shadowed lake is borne

--my father's song."--Charles Ives

Charles Ives, perhaps the quintessential American composer of the twentieth century, drew on his childhood experiences in a small New England town in his music. Through his close relationship with his father, George, a Civil War bandmaster, Ives developed a powerful feeling for nineteenth-century rural America. This book--the first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300054815
• ISBN13: 9780300054811
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.6"