Charles Ives (1874–1954)

Author of Essays before a Sonata, and Other Writings

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About the Author

Charles Ives is lecturer at the University of Washington.

Includes the names: Charles Ives, Charles E. Ives, Charles Edward Ives

Also includes: Ives (1)

Image credit: Charles Edward Ives, around 1913 This photo from around 1913 shows Ives in his "day job": he was the director of a successful insurance agency. (Public domain; Wikipedia)

Works by Charles Ives

Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music (1911) 79 copies

Charles E. Ives: Memos (1972) 26 copies

114 Songs by Charles Ives (1933) 20 copies

Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860" (1920) 18 copies

Ives: Symphony No. 2 / The Gong on the Hook & Ladder, or Firemen's Parade on Main Street / Tone Roads No. 1 / Hymn:… (1990) 17 copies

Essays Before a Sonata (1969) 13 copies

The Unanswered Question (2000) 12 copies

Piano Sonata 2 " Concord " (1947) 9 copies

Ives & Barber: String Quartets (1993) 9 copies

Ives: Symphonies / Orchestral Sets 1 & 2 (2001) 9 copies

Three Places in New England (2003) 8 copies

Symphony No. 3 "The Camp Meeting" (Score) (1990) 8 copies

Charles Ives: Variations on "America" (1891) for Organ; Adeste Fidelis In an Organ Prelude (1897) (Mercury Music Corp.) (1949) 8 copies

Piano Sonata No. 1 7 copies

Ives: Symphony No. 4 / Three Places in New England / Central Park in the Dark 7 copies

Songs (1992) 7 copies

String Quartet No. 2 (Parts) 7 copies

Ives: Concord Sonata; Songs (2004) 7 copies

Holidays Symphony, The Unanswered Question, Central Park In The Dark 6 copies

Ives: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 (1992) 6 copies

Selected correspondence of Charles Ives (2007) 6 copies

Psalm 90 6 copies

String Quartet No. 1 (Parts) 6 copies

Violin sonatas no. 1–4 (sound recording) (2003) 5 copies

Ives: An American Journey (2002) 5 copies

Ives: The Unanswered Question; Holidays; Central Park in the Dark / Carter: Concerto for Orchestra (1998) 5 copies

Central Park in the Dark 5 copies

Five Piano Pieces (1975) 5 copies

Ives Plays Ives The Complete Recordings of Charles Ives at the Piano, 1933-1943 (1999) 5 copies

Romanzo di Central Park: Songs By Charles Ives (2008) 5 copies

Trio, piano, violin, cello 5 copies

Thirty-four songs (2000) 5 copies

Hallowe'en from "Three Outdoor Scenes" 4 copies

Symphony no. 10 ; New England triptych ; American festival overture [sound recording] (1992) — Composer — 4 copies

Charles Ives: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 / Hymns (1991) 4 copies

Circus Band 4 copies

The Three Orchestral Sets [sound recording] (2008) — Composer — 4 copies

Ives: Symphony No. 3 (2003) 4 copies

Sixty-seventh Psalm. [S. A. T. B.] (1939) 4 copies

December 4 copies

Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord," with the Essays Before a Sonata (2012) 4 copies

The Cage 4 copies

Three-page sonata : for piano [sheet music] 4 copies

Symphony No. 4 (2012) 4 copies

Symphony No. 1 4 copies

Sonate für Klavier Nr. 1. CD 4 copies

Symphony 2 / Robert Browning Overture (2000) 4 copies

Symphony no. 3 ("The camp meeting") ; Orchestral set no. 2 4 copies

Charles Ives - String Quartets [CD] 4 copies

Songs ; Lieder ; Chansons [audio recording] 4 copies

Ives: A Song - For Anything (2005) 3 copies

Decoration Day / Thanksgiving / Fourth of July (2009) 3 copies

Holidays Symphony 3 copies

Tom Sails Away 3 copies

Three Places in New England 3 copies

Charlie Rutlage 3 copies

"They Are There!" - A War Song March 3 copies

Seven Songs for Voice and Piano (1957) 3 copies

Tone Roads No. 3 ... For chamber orchestra ... Full score [and parts], etc 3 copies

The New River 3 copies

3 Songs: Voice and Piano (1986) 3 copies

Sunrise. Voice, violin and piano. < Text by Ives. > Edited by John Kirkpatrick. [Score. With a facsimile.] 3 copies

The See'r 3 copies

Ives: The Four Symphonies of Charles Ives 3 copies

Ives: Songs, Vol. 2 (2008) 3 copies

Ann Street 3 copies

The Things Our Father Loved 3 copies

The Housatonic at Stockbridge 3 copies

The celestial country; Psalms 54, 67, 90, 135 ; Easter carol ; Crossing the bar 3 copies

Ives: Three Places in New England, Ruggles: Sun Treader, etc. (2001) 3 copies

Ives: Songs, Vol. 1 (2008) 3 copies

from " Paracelsus" 3 copies

Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4/Serebrier, Ormandy, London Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra 3 copies

String Quartet No. 1 (Score) (1954) 3 copies

Largo risoluto no. 1 for piano quintet [sheet music] 3 copies

Largo risoluto no. 2 for piano quintet [sheet music] 3 copies

Serenity 3 copies

September 2 copies

Walking 2 copies

Walt Whitman 2 copies

Grantchester 2 copies

In Flanders Fields 2 copies

General William Booth Enters Into Heaven 2 copies

Majority 2 copies

Set of Pieces 2 copies

The Camp-Meeting 2 copies

The Children's Hour 2 copies

Scherzo (1903-4) "Holding Your Own" 2 copies

Emerson concerto ; Symphony no. 1 2 copies

A Set of Pieces 2 copies

Luck and Work 2 copies

Ives: Songs, Vol. 5 (2008) 2 copies

Afterglow 2 copies

Two Little Flowers 2 copies

Fourteen songs for voice and piano 2 copies

The Innate (1916) 2 copies

In the Morning 2 copies

Thoreau 2 copies

At the River 2 copies

The Indians 2 copies

Waltz 2 copies

A Christmas Carol (1897) 2 copies

Eleven songs & two harmonizations 2 copies

Three places in New England [audio recording] 2 copies

American Scenes, American Poets: Charles Ives 2 copies

The Side Show 2 copies

The White Gulls 2 copies

The Rainbow 2 copies

Tone Roads no. 1 2 copies

West London 2 copies

The Circus Band 2 copies

Ives: Symphonies No.2 & No.3; Central Park in the Dark (Bernstein Royal Edition) 2 copies

Symphony No. 4 (Score) (1965) 2 copies

The World of Charles Ives 2 copies

Ives: Songs, Orchestral Sets, From the Steeples & Mountains (2008) 2 copies

Ives: Songs, Vol. 6 (2008) 2 copies

129 songs (2004) 2 copies

String Quartet No. 2 (Score) 2 copies

Three Places in New England / New England Holidays / They Are There (1904) 2 copies

Leonard Bernstein Conducts Charles Ives [Sound recording] 2 copies

Scherzo (Over the Pavements) for Chamber Orchestra (Performable also as Chamber Music) 2 copies

Music for Chorus 2 copies

The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 1 (1995) 2 copies

Ives: Songs, Vol. 4 (2008) 2 copies

Memories (1897) 2 copies

In the Alley 2 copies

Charles Ives's America 2 copies

Leopold Stokowski, the Columbia stereo recordings (2012) 2 copies

The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 3 (1995) 1 copy

Fugue in Four Keys on "The Shining Shore" 1 copy

From the Steeples and the Mountains 1 copy

Charles Ives - "Concord" Sonata & Three Places in New England 1 copy

Scherzo, for 2 violins, viola, and 'cello 1 copy

Sonata No. 2 (Violin and Piano) String Solo Series Composed by Charles Ives (2013) 1 copy

Processiona: let there be light 1 copy

They are there! The Gregg Smith Singers; The American Symphony Orchersta; Leopold Stokowski, cond. (#46-48) Disk 4 of… 1 copy

Sonatas for Violin & Piano 1 copy

March III with the air "Old Kentucky Home" 1 copy

Songs 1 copy

Quartets, violins (2), viola, cello, no. 2 "Discussions" 1 copy

In re con moto et al : for piano quintet. 1 copy

The All-Enduring 1 copy

Ives:New England Holidays [Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ,Sir Andrew Davis ] [CHANDOS : CHSA 5163] by Melbourne Symphony… 1 copy

Song (She Is Not Fair) 1 copy

The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 2 (1995) 1 copy

Thomas Conducts Ives (2020) 1 copy

A Portrait of Charles Ives (1993) 1 copy

Moment Musical No. 2 in A-flat to Ives, Orchestral Set No. 2, II, "The Rockstrewn Hills Join in the People's outdoor… 1 copy

Ives, Griffes, MacDowell: Lieder (1992) 1 copy

Music for String Quartet [muziekopname] (1898) 1 copy

Charles Ives: Central Park in the Dark Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring; Clarinet Concerto Roy Harris: Symphony No. 3 1 copy

Saint-Saens: Cello Concertos and other works 1 copy

Universe Symphony / Orchestral Set No. 2 / The Unanswered Question (1995) 1 copy

Symphony no. 2 . Symphony no. 3 [muziekopname] 1 copy

The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 4 (1995) 1 copy

Varied Air (2002) 1 copy

Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (1968) — Composer — 1 copy

Universe Symphony (2007) 1 copy

Nineteen songs 1 copy

Sololoquy 1 copy

The Swimmers 1 copy

On the Antipodes 1 copy

Ives Piano Trio / Brahms Piano Trio #1 / Trio Fontenay (Teldec) by Trio Fontenay 1 copy

Ives - Three Places in New England 1 copy

First sonata, for violin and piano [score] 1 copy

Ausgewählte Texte. Essays before a sonata. Nachwort zu den 114 Liedern. Memos (1993) 1 copy

Overture & March " 1776 " . For theater orchestra. Edited by James B. Sinclair, etc. < Score. > (1976) 1 copy

The Circus Band ... For unison mixed chorus and small orchestra, etc. < Full score. > 1 copy

Variations on America: Symphony n. 1 in d minor: The unanswered question 1 copy

Three Harvest Home Chorales 1 copy

Slugging a Vampire 1 copy

Made in America: Previn, Glass, Ives, Kirchner, Gordon, Danielpour 1 copy

A Set of Pieces (for Theatre or Chamber Orchestra) 1 copy

Decoration Day (Second Movement of A Symphony: New England Holidays) 1 copy

Study no. 23 : for piano 1 copy

Sonata No. 3 (2000) 1 copy

March Intercollegiate: Two-Step 1 copy

114 Songs By Charles E. Ives 1 copy

Track 36. Orchestral Set No. 2, II "The Rockstrewn Hills Join in The People's OUtdoor Meeting" 1 copy

Track 37. Orchestral Set No. 2, II "The Rockstrewn Hills Join in The People's OUtdoor Meeting" 1 copy

Charles Ives Piano Sonata No. 1 / Noël Lee, Piano 1 copy

Ives - Symphony No.2 1 copy

A Sea Dirge 1 copy

Requim 1 copy

Charles Ives Songs, Vol. 2: 1915-1925 (1965) 1 copy

The Circus Band - 7-part mixed chorus with keyboard - Charles Ives - SSATTB, Piano-4 Hands - SSATTB - SongBook 1 copy

Complete symphonies 1 copy

Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2 • Vienna Orchestra • F. Charles Adler, conductor 1 copy

Ives: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano • Sessions: Duo of Violin and Piano • Patricia Travers, Violin, with Otto… 1 copy

Second orchestral set ; L'Ascension 1 copy

Ives: Symphony no.2 1 copy

The Orchestral Music of Charles Ives 1 copy

Charles Ives - Gebundeld 1 copy

Ives: Songs, Vol. 3 1 copy

Charles Ives: Orchestral Set, No. 2 / Robert Browning Overture / Putnam's Camp 1 copy

The sonatas for violin and piano 1 copy

The Gong on the Hook and Ladder or Firemen's Parade on Main Street 1 copy

1,2,3 1 copy

Charles Ives, a good dissonance like a man 1 copy

The sixty-seventh Psalm : for full chorus of mixed voices, a capella 1 copy

Piano Sonata 2 " Concord " 1 copy

Elgar : Variations on an original theme 'Enigma', Op.36 + Ives : Symphony no.1 [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy

BBC Proms 2021 : Prom 11 : Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony [sound recording] (2021) — Composer — 1 copy

Variations On America: Organ Spectacular [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy

"Country Band" March 1 copy

Allegretto sombreoso for flute, English horn (or trumpet or basset horn), 3 violins and piano [sheet music] 1 copy

His Exaltation 1 copy

The Last Reader 1 copy

An Election 1 copy

Hymn: Largo Cantabile (for String Orchestra) 1 copy

Premonitions 1 copy

Symphony no. 2 1 copy

Easter Carol 1 copy

Symphony no. 3 (The camp meeting). [Sound recording] 1 copy

Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2 and The Fourth of July (Columbia Masterworks "360 Sound") 1 copy

The light that is felt songs of Charles Ives 1 copy

Songs. Volume 1 1 copy

CO- Boston Symphony Orchestra- Michael Tilson Thomas 1 copy

The Alcotts from Piano Sonata No.2 1 copy

Songs, Vol. 2 1 copy

Four Songs for Trombone & Piano 1 copy

Complete works for piano 1 copy

Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 Concord / Varied Air and Variations / The Celestial Railroad / Transcriptions from Emerson,… (2004) 1 copy

When the moon Sets for orchestra ; Songs 1 copy

Ives: Symphony No. 3 / The Unanswered Question / Three Places in New England (1992) 1 copy

Symphony No. 3 "The Camp Meeting" — Composer — 1 copy

Songs // Samuel Ramey, Warren Jones 1 copy

Ives;Symphonies 3 4 1 copy

Ives Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3; The Unanswered Question [MK 42407] 1 copy

5 Sonates For Violin And Piano 1 copy

Socrates' request and the educational narrative of the Timaeus (2017) 1 copy

Ives - Chamber and Vocal Works (2005) 1 copy

Variations on "America" for Piano (2006) 1 copy

3 Improvisations Piano Solo (2013) 1 copy

String quartet no. 1 Scherzo for string quartet 1 copy

Turn Ye, Turn Ye 1 copy

Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 1 (1976) 1 copy

Lukas Foss conducts the Zimbler Sinfonietta [audio recording] 1 copy

Jeremy Denk Plays Ives (2010) 1 copy

20C: Ives: Central Park In The Dark (2013) 1 copy

Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for two pianos (1903/23) / Three Page Sonata (1905) // Josef Christof, Steffen Schleiermacher 1 copy

Nine songs / by Charles Ives ; Four rhymes from Peacock pie / Theodore Chanler ; Ballad from Pantaloon / Robert Ward ;… 1 copy

Ives: Three Places In New England/New England Holidays/There They Are (1996) 1 copy

Ives Symphony No 3 1 copy

Ives: Symphony No. 4, Central Park in the Dark . LP 1 copy

Symphony No. 3 & Orchestral Set No. 2 [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy

Ives: Symphony No. 3 & 4 - The Unanswered Question - Central Parkin the Dark (2016) 1 copy

Music for a Time of War (2011) 1 copy

Songs 1 copy

Sonatas for violin and piano [audio recording] 1 copy

The unknown Ives 1 copy

Charles Ives Piano Sanata No. 1 1 copy

Charles Ives Symphony No. 2 1 copy

Ives/Symphony No. 4 1 copy

String quartet no. 1 (1896) 'A revival service' ; String Quartet No. 2 (1907-1913) [audio recording] 1 copy

Lieder 1 copy

Vocal Music 1 copy

The 100 Anniversary 1 copy

String Quartet No.2 1 copy

Ives: The Two String Quartets 1 copy

Charles Ives: String Quartet No. 1 (1869) “ A Revival service” String Quartet No. 2 (1907 - 1913) The Kohon… 1 copy

Symphonies Nos. 1,3 & 4, Hymns,New England Holiday,The Unaswered Question,Central Park 1 copy

He is there! 1 copy

August 1 copy

Peaks 1 copy

Yellow Leaves 1 copy

Pictures 1 copy

Where the Eagle 1 copy

In Summer Fields 1 copy

Religion 1 copy

17 Lieder / Klaviersonate Nr. 2 "Concord, Mass. 1840-1860" // Susan Graham, Pierre-Laurent Aimard 1 copy

Nov. 2, 1920 1 copy

from "Lincoln, the Great Commoner" 1 copy

The Greatest Man 1 copy

Autumn 1 copy

Immortality 1 copy

from the "Incantation" 1 copy

Spring Song 1 copy

At Sea 1 copy

Tarrant Moss 1 copy

Canon 1 copy

Mirage 1 copy

Maple Leaves 1 copy

Slow March 1 copy

An Old Flame 1 copy

A Night Song 1 copy

From The Swimmers 1 copy

There is a Certain Garden 1 copy

The Fourth of July - Third Movement of "A Symphony: New England Holidays" 1 copy

Communion from Symphony No 3 1 copy

Thanksgiving and Forefather's Day - Fourth Movement of "A Symphony: New England Holidays" 1 copy

Songs 1 copy

The Concord Sonata 1 copy

Violin Sonatas 2, 3, 4 1 copy

Psalm 100 : for choirs (S.A., S.A.T.B.) and bells, with optional organ 1 copy

Charles Ives: Five Violin Sonatas 1 copy

The Circus Band March (1894) 1 copy

Serenade 1 copy

Old Folks Gatherin' from Symphony No 3 1 copy

Children's Day from Symphony No 3 1 copy

An Elegy to Our Forefathers from Orchestral Set No 2 1 copy

Berceuse 1 copy

The Rockstrewn Hills Join in the People's Outdoor Meeting from Orchestral Set No 2 1 copy

From Hanover Square North, at the end of a tragic day� from Orchestral Set No 2 1 copy

Flag song, for voice and piano 1 copy

Thirteen songs for voice and piano 1 copy

The Circus Band (1894) 1 copy

Like a Sick Eagle (ca 1920) 1 copy

A Farewell to Land (1925) 1 copy

Down East 1 copy

A-cappella Passionsmusik: Ives: Psalm "Crossing the bar". Schütz: Psalm 130 "Aus der Tiefe ruf ich, Herr zu dir".… 1 copy

Songs My Mother Taught Me 1 copy

The Sixty-Seventh Song 1 copy

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Associated Works

Barber : Adagio for strings + Copland : Quiet city + Cowell : Hymn and fuguing tune no.10 + Creston : A rumor + Ives :… (1992) — Composer — 6 copies

The Bitch-Goddess Success: Variations on an American Theme (1968) — Contributor — 6 copies

American Festival (1995) — Composer — 5 copies

Ives: Concord Sonata / Barber: Piano Sonata (2004) — Composer — 3 copies

A Lou Harrison Reader (SC) (1987) — Contributor — 2 copies

Leonard Bernstein, an American life [music from the radio documentary] — Composer — 2 copies

An American Tapestry [sound recording] (1998) — Composer, some editions — 2 copies

Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring / Short Symphony 1 copy

Barber : Adagio for strings + Bernstein : On the town : Three dance episodes : Lonely town : Pas de deux + Cage : Dream… 1 copy

Quiet City [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy

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