ESSAYS BEFORE A SONATA

ESSAYS BEFORE A SONATA

Charles Ives

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Double9 Books LLP
Año de edición:
2024
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Ficción clásica
ISBN:
9789360468620
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'Essays Before a Sonata' is a one-of-a-type and groundbreaking piece of artwork by means of American composer Charles Ives, who recognized for making critical additions to twentieth-century music. This set of writings is going with Ives 'Concord Sonata,' a piece of music that turned into stimulated by means of the transcendentalist writers and thinkers who lived in Concord, Massachusetts. Ives writes approximately music, philosophy, and life in these writings, which provide you a way to understand the intellectual and creative historical past of the 'Concord Sonata.' The identify itself suggests that Ives thought the listener have to think cautiously approximately the piece of track before they virtually listen it. Ives writes approximately a number of various things, along with the connection among song and transcendentalist theory, the idea of invention, and the place of dissonance in track. Like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, he sees links among what he is studying and the philosophical thoughts of these great minds. 'Essays Before a Sonata' indicates how avant-garde and innovative Ives was with all of his songs and high-degree writing. As a hyperlink among tune and notion, it helps listeners apprehend how complicated the 'Concord Sonata' is and gives them a better know-how of Ives’s specific musical imagination and foresight.

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