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I. Ives as Author
II. Reference Materials
III. Book-Length Studies
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
V. General Music Studies
VI. Topical Studies
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
VIII. Dissertations, Theses, and Baccalaureate Essays
IX. Festivals, Conferences, and Concert Series Dedicated to the Music of Charles Ives
X. Editing Practices and Articles Regarding Published Editions
XI. Reviews of Premieres, Significant Performances, and Recordings
XII. Interdisciplinary Performances with Ives’s Music
(-) XIII. Ives in Literature
XIV. Websites
XV. Television Broadcasts, Films, and Videocassettes
XVI. Photographs and Artwork
XVII. Radio Broadcasts

Revell, Donald

Year: 2016
Complete Citation:
Revell, Donald. “Charles Ives at the Spinet.” The Massachusetts Review, vol. 57 no. 4, (2016): 708-708.
Source: Journal
XIII. Ives in Literature
A. Poetry

Ridgway, Rick

Year: 1994
Complete Citation:
Ridgway, Rick. Three Squirt Dog. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
Source: Book
XIII. Ives in Literature
B. Fiction

Rukeyser, Muriel

Year: 1939
Complete Citation:
Muriel Rukeyser. "Ives." A Turning Wind. New York: Viking Press, 1939: 115--120. Reprints: Muriel Rukeyser. The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser. New York: McGraw--Hill Book Company, 1978: 199--203. A Turning Wind (1939): "Lives, 'Ives.'"
Source: Poem
Reprints:

Muriel Rukeyser. The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser. New York: McGraw--Hill Book Company, 1978: 199--203. A Turning Wind (1939): "Lives, 'Ives.'" Muriel Rukeyser. Selected Poems. New York: New Directions, 1951: 62--63: "from Ives.” Untune the Sky; Poems of Music and Dance, compiled by Helen Plotz. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1957: "This is Charles Ives" (an excerpt from "Ives"). Muriel Rukeyser. Waterlily. Fire, Poems 1935--1962. New York: Macmillan Company, 1962: 68--71. A Muriel Rukeyser Reader, edited by Jan Heller Levi; introduction by Adrienne Rich. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995: 65--66: "from Charles Ives.”

XIII. Ives in Literature
A. Poetry
Year: 1939
Complete Citation:
Rukeyser, Muriel. “Ives.” In A Turning Wind, 115-120. New York, New York: Viking Press, 1939.
Source: Poem
XIII. Ives in Literature
A. Poetry

Schevill, James Erwin

Year: 1996
Complete Citation:
Schevill, James Erwin. “Hats and Ears for Charles Ives.” In The Complete American Fantasies. Athens, OH: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1996: 17--19.
Source: Poem in Book
Reprints:

Schevill, James Erwin. “Hats and Ears for Charles Ives.” In <i>New and Selected Poems</i>, 103-105. Athens, OH: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2000.

XIII. Ives in Literature
A. Poetry

Sérgio Luiz Rodrigues Medeiros

Year: 2008
Complete Citation:
Medeiros, Sérgio Luiz Rodrigues. Tótem & sacrificio: (poemas o prosas). Translated to Spanish by Douglas Diegues, Cristino Bogado, y Bernarda Acosta. Asunción, Paraguay: Yiyi Jambo, 2008.
Source: Book (of poems)
XIII. Ives in Literature
A. Poetry

Slominsky, Nicolas

Year: 2001
Complete Citation:
Slonimsky, Nicolas. “Ives, Charles Edward.” In Baker's Biographical Dic-tionary of Musicians. 8th rev. ed. New York, NY: Schirmer, 2001.
Source: Chapter in Book
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
C. Dictionary Entries

Swan, Christopher

Year: Year unlisted
Complete Citation:
Swan, Christopher. “Poem After Hearing Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata.” Publisher and year unlisted.
Source: Poem
XIII. Ives in Literature
A. Poetry

Thomson, David

Year: 1990
Complete Citation:
Thomson, David. Silver Light. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
Source: Book
XIII. Ives in Literature
B. Fiction

Waldrep, G.C.

Year: 2009
Complete Citation:
Waldrep, G.C. “Who is Charles Ives.” In Archicembalo: Poems. North Adams, MA: Tupelo Press, 2009.
Source: Chapter in Book
XIII. Ives in Literature
A. Poetry

Weiss, Mark

Year: 1977
Complete Citation:
Weiss, Mark. “A Meditation on Charles Ives.” Boston, MA: Heron Press, 1977.
Notes:

Poem with woodcut portrait by Bruce Chandler. Available at the Library of Congress, LC 98192956, Portfolio 313, No. 84, Washington D.C. Also available at the Ephemon Collection, New York Public Library, New York, NY.

Source: Poem
XIII. Ives in Literature
A. Poetry

West, Paul

Year: 1994
Complete Citation:
West, Paul. “A Chocolate Malted for Charles Ives.” Conjunctions, no. 22, (1994): 322-370.
Source: Journal
XIII. Ives in Literature
B. Fiction

Williams, Jonathan

Year: 1975
Complete Citation:
Williams, Jonathan. “Part Two: Essays Before a Sonata.” A Garland for Charles Ives: Special Supplement to Parnassus: Poetry in Review 3/2 (Spring/Summer 1975): 353--373.
Notes:

An extended poem in outline form, divided into six sections parallel to Ives's Essays Before a Sonata {All}.

Source: Poem
XIII. Ives in Literature
A. Poetry
Year: 1975
Complete Citation:
Williams, Jonathan. “A Celestial Centennial Reverie for Charles E. Ives (the Man Who Found Our Music in the Ground).” Parnassus: Poetry in Review 3/2 (Spring/Summer 1975): 350-373.
Source: Journal
XIII. Ives in Literature
A. Poetry
Year: 1975
Complete Citation:
Williams, Jonathan. “A Celestial Centennial Reverie for Charles E. Ives (the Man Who Found Our Music in the Ground).” Parnassus: Poetry in Review 3, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 1975): 350-373.
Source: Book
XIII. Ives in Literature
A. Poetry

Yother, Mark

Year: 1975
Complete Citation:
Yother, Mark. “Letters to the Editor: Ives Demurrers.” Stereo Review (June 1975) 34/6: 6.
Notes:

A poem (very negative in tone) in response to William Anderson's editorial, “Composer Charles Ives Enters History.” <i>Review </i>34/3 <i>(</i>March 1975): 4.

Source: Poem
XIII. Ives in Literature
A. Poetry

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
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
C. Dictionary Entries

no author listed

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.

VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
C. Dictionary Entries
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
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
C. Dictionary Entries
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
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
C. Dictionary Entries