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From the book:Charles Ives (1874-1954) was probably one of the most psycho - intellectually brilliant, imaginative and flexible Americans to ever "walk the land of free-dom." A graduate of Yale, he became a multi-millio-naire in the American insurance industry, introducing brilliant innovations within that industry. He also, unlike a few composers, found the time and the money (being a shrewd and practical businessman) to get married and have children. His accomplishments for which he is best known, however, are those in the field of music. At the time of its composition, Ives' music was probably the most radically modern in history, and by itself had enough material to serve as the foundation of modern 20th century music. For example, at the turn of the century, this eccentric composer created band works featuring multiple melodies of multiple time signatures opposing and complimenting each other within the same piece. Ives was also a revolutionary atonal composer, who created, essentially without precedent, many atonal works that not only pre-date those of Schoenberg, but are just as sophisticated, and arguably even more so, than those of the 12-tone serialist.
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Essays Before a Sonata (Dodo Press)
June 8, 2007, Dodo Press
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1406533823 9781406533828
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Essays Before a Sonata
February 28, 2006, 1st World Library
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1421808218 9781421808215
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Essays Before a Sonata
2004, 1st World Library
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Essays Before A Sonata
June 30, 2004, Kessinger Publishing
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Essays Before A Sonata
September 30, 2004, 1st World Library
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Essays Before a Sonata: And Other Writings
May 1999, Marion Boyars
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0714502197 9780714502199
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Essays Before a Sonata: The Majority and Other Writings
January 1999, W. W. Norton & Company
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Essays Before a Sonata: The Majority and Other Writings
January 1999, W. W. Norton & Company
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"The following pages were written primarily as a preface or reason for the [writer's] second Pianoforte Sonata-"Concord, Mass., 1845,"-a group of four pieces, called a sonata for want of a more exact name, as the form, perhaps substance, does not justify it."
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