Breaking Time's Arrow: Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives
- Author: McDonald, Matthew
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... — More…
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Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Ives and Time
- Part I: Three Dualities
- 1. God/Man: I Come to Thee and Psalm 14
- 2. Community/individual: Sonata No. 1 for Piano and String Quartet No. 2
- 3. Intuition/expression: "Nov. 2, 1920" and "Grantchester"
- Part II: Contexts and Methodologies
- 4. Elements of Narrative: The Unanswered Question
- 5. Ives and the Now: "The Things Our Fathers Loved"
- 6. Cumulative Composition: Ives's Emerson Music
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index