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Wilder, Robert D.

Year: 1969
Complete Citation:
Wilder, Robert D. “The Americas: Charles Ives (1874-1954).” In Twentieth-century Music. Dubuque, IA: W.C. Brown Co. Publishers, 1969.
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William R. Martin and Julius Drossin

Year: 1980
Complete Citation:
William R. Martin and Julius Drossin. Music of the twentieth century. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980.
Source: Book
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Wood, James

Year: 1986
Complete Citation:
Wood, James. “Microtonality: Aesthetics and Practicality.” Musical Times 127/1720 (June 1986): 328-330.
Notes:

Quotes Ives regarding his father’s quarter-tone machine. Also cites Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for two pianos, Chorale for Strings, Symphony No. 4, and “Some Quarter-Tone Impressions.”

Source: Journal
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Yates, Peter

Year: 1967
Complete Citation:
Yates, Peter. Twentieth-Century Music. London, United Kingdom: Pantheon Books, 1967.
Source: Book
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Young, Percy Marshall

Year: 1954
Complete Citation:
Young, Percy Marshall. A Critical Dictionary of Composers and Their Music. London, United Kingdom: Dennis Dobson Books, 1954.
Notes:

Claims that the Concord Sonata was given its world premiere at the International Society for Contemporary Music meeting in 1928 at Salzburg. Lists very few Ives works “for per-formance and study.”

Source: Chapter in Book
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Zierolf, Robert

Year: 1987
Complete Citation:
Zierolf, Robert. “Discontinuity as the Principal Modern Element in
Ives’ Music.” Lecture, Meeting of the Central Midwest Theory Society Meeting and Great Plains Chapter of the College Music Society, Manhattan, KS, March 8, 1987.
Source: Lecture/Paper-presentation
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no author listed

Notes:

Unsigned online article with biography, list of compositions, discography, and bibliography.

Source: Online Article
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Year: 1935
Complete Citation:
“Ives, Charles (1874).” The Gramophone Music Encyclopedia. New York, NY: 1935: 7.
Source: Encyclopedia
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Year: 1938
Complete Citation:
“Ives, Charles.” In Oxford Companion to Music, edited by Percy Scholes, 478, 713, 1132. London, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 1938.
Source: Chapter in Book
Reprints:

Second Edition, 1939; Third Edition 1941; Fourth Edition, 1942; Fifth Edition, 1944; Sixth Edition, 1945; Seventh Edition, 1947; Eighth Edition, 1950. All: page 478. Ninth Edition, 1956: 531, 1065. Tenth Edition, revised and edited by John Owen Ward, 1970: 528--529.

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Year: 1940
Complete Citation:
“Ives, Charles Edward.” In Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musi-cians, edited by Nicolas Slonimsky, 545. 4th ed. New York, NY: G. Schirmer.
Notes:

There was no entry for Ives in the first two editions, 1900 and 1905, edited by Theodore Baker, nor in the Third Edition, 1919, edited by Alfred Remy.

Reprints:

5th ed., 1958: 765--766. 6th ed., 1978: 804--806. 7th ed., revised by Nicolas Slonimsky, 1984: 1092--1095. 8th ed., revised by Nicolas Slonimsky, 1990: 832--833. 9th ed., 2001 (Centennial Edition), 6 volumes. Nicolas Slonimsky, Editor Emeritus; Laura Kuhn, Baker's Series Advisory Editor. “Ives, Charles E.” by Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis Mclntire, Volume 3: 1683--1685. * Supplements, edited by Nicolas Slonimsky, 1965: 61; 1971: 110.

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Year: 1942
Complete Citation:
“Charles Edward Ives.” In National Cyclopedia of American Biography. New York, NY: J.T. White, 1942.
Source: Chapter in Book
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Year: 1947
Complete Citation:
“Ives, Charles Edward.” In Current Biography 1947, 330-332. New York, NY: H.W. Wilson, 1947.
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Year: 1947
Complete Citation:
The Year in American Music 1946--1947, edited by Julian Bloom, 343. New York, NY: Allen Towne & Heath.
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Page 343 has a short list of Ives works published up to that time. The Pulitzer Prize is indicated as carrying a $500 award (page 523). Credits Paul Rosenfeld [B0072] as giving Ives's music “proba-bly its fullest description and appreciation.”

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Year: 1951
Complete Citation:
“Ives, Charles Edward.” In Who is Who in Music, edited by J. T. H. Mize. 5th ed. Chicago, IL: Who is Who in Music, Inc., 1951.
Source: Chapter in Book
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Year: 1961
Complete Citation:
Siegmeister, Elie. Invitation to Music. Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Harvey House, 1961.
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Year: 1962
Complete Citation:
“Evidence Points to Ives as First 12-tone User.” The New York Times. December 1, 1962, 17.
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Year: 1965-1966
Complete Citation:
Siegmeister, Elie. Harmony and Melody. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1965- 1966.
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Year: 2009
Complete Citation:
“Creó El Compositor Charles Ives Una Técnica Innovadora.” Notimex, October 19, 2009.
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Year: 2010
Complete Citation:
“Continúan vigentes técnicas que incorporó Charles Ives a la música.” Notimex, October 19, 2010.
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Year: 2016
Complete Citation:
“Charles Ives.” In Recueil biographique sur divers compositeurs dont le nom commence par les lettres I à K: dossier biographique. Bytom, Poland: Frodo, 2016.
Source: Chapter in Book
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