Bibliography

A brief but worthwhile sur-vey, especially of “The League of Composers” (365): “The Arrow Music Press is a cooperative venture. The composer pays all, or a portion of, the expense of publishing his compositions and in return receives all but a small fraction of the return. A very interesting catalogue has al-ready been issued by the press, which appears to be increasing its acti-vities.” With the Arrow Press imprint and its subsidiary Cos Cob Press, the following works of Ives were published: Sonata [No. 4] for violin and piano; Serenity; Sixty--Seventh Psalm; Charlie Rutlage; Evening; The Greatest Man', Walking; Seven Songs’, Third Symphony (“The Camp Meeting”) [CI 87); Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass., 1840--1860,” for piano; and Where the Eagle (in the Cos Cob Song Volume). The Cos Cob Press was later absorbed by the Arrow Music Press that in turn was merged into Associated Music Publishers. Ives and Walter Piston had the most titles in this catalogue. The article re-prints “Prologue” from Essays Before a Sonata.

Ives is one of seven-teen composers discussed.

References to Ives: in Part 1, “Introduction”: “The use of common material such as folk tunes, hymns, and patriotic songs will not be included since the music is not from the concert tradition. However, this creates a problem of inconsistency in some cases. Charles Ives quotes music from popular material together with concert pieces which have programmatic signifi-cance.”; in Part 5, “Early Twentieth-Century Practices in the Use of Quotation”: “The very same motive (Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5) is quoted by Ives in the Concord Sonata and is used as a cyclic device to depict fate and the character of Beethoven himself’; and in Parts 7-10, “Charles Ives' Use of Quotation.”