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Essays Before a Sonata

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First published: 1920
Pages: 82

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Introductions
18:01
Emerson 1
24:05
Emerson 2
23:43
Emerson 3
13:50
Hawthorne
7:35
The Alcotts
7:14
Thoreau
35:04
Epilogues 1-3
16:15
Epilogues 4-5
39:24
Epilogues 6-9
15:53

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Essays Before a Sonata book serves as an introduction to Ives’ composition, the Concord Sonata. In the essays, Ives explains his own perspective of and understanding of music and art. They also serve as an analysis of music itself as an art form and provide a critical description of the Concord and the role that the philosophies of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and the Alcotts play in forming its thematic structure.

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Charles Ives

Charles Ives created experimental American music by joining together hymn tunes, marches, popular songs, and dissonant modernism. Essays Before a Sonata appeared in 1920 as a companion to his Concord Sonata, explaining the literary and philosophical interests behind that large piano work.

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