Charles Ives's massive Concord Sonata, his second sonata for piano,
named after the town of Concord in Massachusetts, is central to his
output and clearly reflects his aesthetic perspective. Geoffrey Block's
wide-ranging 1996 account of the work thus provides an ideal
introduction to this fascinating composer. As well as a discussion of
the Sonata's reception history from 1920 to the time of publication, and
a chapter on its compositional genesis, this handbook includes a
detailed narrative of the motivic content as well as a historical and
analytical survey of the work's borrowings, both certifiable and newly
proposed. The programmatic element of the Sonata is explored in the
context of Ives's personal vision of four literary subjects associated
with the town of Concord between 1840 and 1860: Emerson, Thoreau,
Hawthorne, and the Alcotts.
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