The music of Charles Ives
By: Philip Lambert.
Series: Composers of the twentieth century
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Ives, Charles, 1874-1954 -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: Using modes of analysis for post-tonal music and approaches devised specifically for the study of Ives as well, the author explains the origin, evolution, and culmination of Ives's systematic methods.

He discusses important aspects of the composer's early training, the relation between Ives's experimental and his concert music, Ives's fugal and canonic techniques as the basis for his systematic music, his paradigms of procedure and transformation, and pitch relations in Ives's music, particularly the unfinished Universe Symphony.

Lambert refutes the popular image of Ives as a highly eccentric composer haphazardly casting about for arbitrary regulated ways of generating musical material and instead portrays him as a keenly determined and resourceful artist who gradually discovered ever more powerful tools for creating remarkably original music.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-236) and index.