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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

Block, Geoffrey

Year: 1988
Complete Citation:
Block, Geoffrey. Charles Ives: A Bio-Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Source: Book
II. Reference Materials
A. Bibliographies

Brooks, Tim

Year: 2011
Complete Citation:
Brooks, Tim. “Current Bibliography.” ARSC Journal 42 no. 2 (Fall 2011): 302-323.
Source: Journal
II. Reference Materials
A. Bibliographies

Budiansky, Stephen

Year: 2013
Complete Citation:
Budiansky, Stephen. “Ives, Diabetes, and His ‘Exhausted Vein’ of Composition.” American Music 31.1 (Spring 2013): 1-25.
Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
I. Compositional Process

Bukoff, Ronald N.

Year: 1988
Complete Citation:
Bukoff, Ronald N. “Charles Ives: A History and Bibliography of Criticism (1920-1939), and Ives’ Influence (to 1947) on Bernard Herrmann, Elie Siegmeister, and Robert Palmer.” Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, 1988.
Source: Ph.D. Dissertation
II. Reference Materials
A. Bibliographies

Burk, James Mack

Year: 1977
Complete Citation:
Burk, James Mack. An Hour with Ives. 1977. In The Charles Ives Festival- Conference, Oc-tober 19, 1974: Brooklyn.
Source: Photograph
Reprints:

Made around the Ives house in West Redding and Danbury. [No original photographs of Ives.] Also includes slides made from other photographs including those printed in books. The James Mack Burk Collection also con-tains prints of photographs taken and printed by Sipprell, Erskine, and Rathburn.

XVI. Photographs and Artwork
A. Photographs

Carlson, Michael

Year: 1996
Complete Citation:
Carlson, Michael. “The Discomposing Composer.” Specta-tor 277/8781 (November 2, 1996): 44.
Notes:

“[H]is marvelous 'From Hanover Square North' ranks with Nielsen's Fifth as the most moving reactions to the Great War.”

Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
I. Compositional Process

Cave II, Lawrence Harold

Year: 1984
Complete Citation:
Cave II, Lawrence Harold. “Abstract: The Role of the Organ in Ives’ Develop-ment as Composer.” Sonneck Society for American Music Bulletin 10 (Fall 1984): 62.
Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
I. Compositional Process

Cotton, S.

Year: 1976
Complete Citation:
Cotton, S. Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954): a selected bibliography. Los Angeles, CA: 1976.
Source: Book
II. Reference Materials
A. Bibliographies

Cowell, Sidney

Complete Citation:
Cowel, Sidney. Photograph of Ives and Henry Cowell. Reproduced: brochure about Cowell (Broadcast Music, Inc.).
Source: Photograph
XVI. Photographs and Artwork
A. Photographs

De Lerma, Dominique-René

Year: 1970
Complete Citation:
De Lerma, Dominique-René. Charles Edward Ives, 1874-1954: A Bibliography of his Music. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1970.
Source: Book
II. Reference Materials
A. Bibliographies

Denahan, Donal

Year: 1982
Complete Citation:
Henahan, Donal. “When the Music Ceases to Sound: Ego, Morale or Changing Times Can Cause Composers to Quit at Their Peak.” Kansas City Star. April 25, sec. K, 10.
Notes:

“In 1916 he finished Symphony No. 4, and that was it: for the next 40 years, until his death in 1954 at the age of 79, Ives sat silent in Con-necticut.”

Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
I. Compositional Process

Edmunds, John and Gordon Boelzner

Year: 1959
Complete Citation:
Edmunds, John and Gordon Boelzner. Some twentieth century American composers, v. 1-2: a selective bibliography. New York, NY: New York Public Library, 1959.
Source: Book
II. Reference Materials
A. Bibliographies

Erskine, Halley

Year: 1951
Complete Citation:
Erskine, Halley. Photographs. Spring, 1951. In A Charles Ives Omnibus, by James Mack Burk and Michael J. Budds, 50, 57, and 859-860. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press, 2008.
Source: Photograph
Reprints:

The full collection consists of eighty-four photographs of Ives alone or with Mrs. Ives at their West Redding home. Some have appeared as covers of recordings and in magazines as well as in several books. [Date determined from letter from Ms. Erskine to Ives (in the Charles Ives Papers at Yale University) and a letter to Ms. Erskine from Harmony Ives (in the James Mack Burk Col-lection).]

XVI. Photographs and Artwork
A. Photographs

Freedman, F., and J. Burk

Complete Citation:
Freedman, F., and J. Burk. A Charles Ives Bibliography.
Source: Book
II. Reference Materials
A. Bibliographies

Freedman, Frederick

Year: Year unlisted
Complete Citation:
Freedman, Frederick. Charles E. Ives: A Preliminary Bibliography of the Literature. Bibliographies in American Music. Detroit, MI: Information Coordinators, Inc., for the College Music Society.
Source: Book
II. Reference Materials
A. Bibliographies

Friedlander, Lee

Year: 1960
Complete Citation:
Friedlander, Lee. Ives Country. 1960. In Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2. Columbia, KS 6155, 1960, 33.3 RPM.
Source: Photograph
Reprints:

Taken for Columbia record shows many scenes around the Ives home in West Redding, CT. [No original photographs of Ives.]

XVI. Photographs and Artwork
A. Photographs

Gerratana, Frank

Year: 1947
Complete Citation:
Gerratana, Frank. Mr. and Mrs. Ives (she is holding a cat, “Christophina”). May, 1947. Photograph. Bridgeport Herald, May 11, 1947, 1.
Source: Photograph
Reprints:

Bettman Archive, page 14808. * <i>Music Journal</i> 24/3 (March 1966): 46.

XVI. Photographs and Artwork
A. Photographs
Year: 1947
Complete Citation:
Gerratana, Frank. Ives by a window. May, 1947. Photograph. Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2. Columbia ML 6289/MS 6889, 33.3 RPM (1960).
Source: Photograph
Reprints:

Postcard by Fotofolio (ca. 2006).

XVI. Photographs and Artwork
A. Photographs
Year: 1947
Complete Citation:
Gerratana, Frank. Ives in front of a bookcase. May, 1947. Photograph. Bettman Archive, p. 11320.
Notes:

At the time Gerratana was photographer for the Bridgeport (CT) Herald.

Source: Photograph
Reprints:

Cowell, Henry and Sidney. <i>Charles Ives and His Music</i>, frontispiece. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1966.

XVI. Photographs and Artwork
A. Photographs

Gilmore, Earl

Year: 1974
Complete Citation:
Gilmore, Earl. Collection of over 500 slides. 1970.
Source: Photograph
Reprints:

See announcement “Gilmore’s Ives Slides on Sept. 15.” Redding [CT] Pilot (1974 September 5): 10. Portraying Ives’s life. [No original photographs of Ives.] Shown numerous times.

XVI. Photographs and Artwork
A. Photographs