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Breaking Time's Arrow: Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives

Breaking Time's Arrow: Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives

Hardcover

Series: Musical Meaning and Interpretation

General MusicMusic ReferenceMusic Theory

ISBN10: 0253012732
ISBN13: 9780253012739
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Jun 16 2014
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.54 Depth: 9.47
Language: English

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.

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