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100 1 _aIves, Charles,
_d1874-1954
245 1 0 _aEssays Before a Sonata
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2003
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2003-01-01
505 0 _aPrologue -- Emerson -- Hawthorne -- "The Alcotts" -- Thoreau -- Epilogue.
508 _aProduced by John Mamoun with help from the Online Distributed Proofreading Team of Charles Franks. HTML version by Al Haines.
520 _a"Essays Before a Sonata" by Charles Ives is a collection of essays written in the early 20th century serving as program notes for Ives' second piano sonata, titled "Concord, Mass., 1845." The book explores the intersection of music and the philosophical ideas of American Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau, analyzing how their thoughts influence the compositions of Ives and highlighting the deep connections between music, art, and the human experience. The opening of this work presents a detailed introduction to Charles Ives as an innovative composer whose revolutionary musical concepts were ahead of their time and reflects the spirit of Transcendentalism. Ives states that the essays are intended to elucidate the themes of his sonata and to invite readers to consider how music can articulate complex emotions and philosophies. He poses questions about the nature of music, its emotional impact, and how subjective experiences can be expressed through sound. This prelude effectively sets the stage for an in-depth exploration of both Ives' musical ideas and the philosophical narratives that underpin them, encouraging a reflective engagement from the reader as they delve into the subsequent essays. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aMusic
653 _aEmerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
653 _aHawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
653 _aThoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
653 _aAlcott family
653 _aIves, Charles, 1874-1954. Sonatas, piano, no. 2
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3673
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