The Music of Charles Ives

by Philip Lambert

Book Overview

With this innovative analysis of the music of Charles Ives, Philip Lambert fills a significant gap in the literature on one of America's most important composers. Lambert offers the first large-scale theoretical study of Ives's repertoire, encompassing major works in all genres. He argues that systematic techniques governed Ives's compositional language and thinking about music, even in his unconventional and apparently unstructured pieces. He portrays...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300105347
• ISBN13: 9780300105346
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"