Charles Ives
Composer
1874-10-20 – 1954-05-19
Charles Ives was an American composer whose experimental work became highly influential in 20th-century music. He integrated hymns, marches, and innovative harmonies into his compositions. Ives is regarded as a central figure in the development of modern American classical music.
Books by Charles Ives
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Essays Before a Sonata
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Quotes by Charles Ives
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If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
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There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
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But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
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It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
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A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.
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Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.
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You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
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