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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

Lang, Paul Henry

Year: 1961
Complete Citation:
Lang, Paul Henry. One Hundred Years of American Music, 98--99, 108. New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1961.
Notes:

Scattered passing references.

Source: Book
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
A. Textbook Accounts

Layton, Robert

Year: 1960
Complete Citation:
Layton, Robert. “Music in the United States.” Twentieth Century Music, edited by Rollo H. Myers, 197-198. London, United Kingdom: John Calder, 1960.
Notes:

“His works show an extraordinary admixture of sheer genius and downright incom-petence.”

Source: Chapter in Book
Reprints:

Revised and Enlarged Edition, 1968: 232-240.

VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
A. Textbook Accounts

Machlis, Joseph

Year: 1979
Complete Citation:
Machlis, Joseph. Introduction to contemporary music. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Norton, 1979.
Source: Book
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
A. Textbook Accounts

Mesquita, Marcos

Year: 2015
Complete Citation:
Mesquita, Marcos. “Charles Ives and the Superposition Technique.” Musurgia, vol. XXII, no. 2 (2015): 71.
Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
G. Music Theory Analyses

Perison, Harry

Year: 1974
Complete Citation:
Perison, Harry. “The Quarter-Tone System of Charles Ives.” Current Musicology, no. 18 (1974): 96-104.
Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
G. Music Theory Analyses

Reinhard, Johnny

Year: 2005
Complete Citation:
“Extended Pythagorean Tuning.” New Music Box. New Music USA, December 21, 2005. www.nmbx.newmusicusa.org.
Notes:

Reinhard cites writings in which Ives identifies usual enharmonic notes [e.g., C# and Db) as being different.

Source: Online article
VI. Topical Studies
G. Music Theory Analyses

Routh, Francis

Year: 1968
Complete Citation:
Routh, Francis. “Contemporary music: an introduction.” London, United Kingdom: English Universities Press, 1968.
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
A. Textbook Accounts

Sadie, Stanley, and Alison Latham, ed.

Year: 1986
Complete Citation:
Sadie, Stanley, and Alison Latham, ed. Stanley Sadie’s Music Guide: An Introduction, 458-463. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986.
Notes:

The main entry includes some biography and a list of works and uses Three Places in New England for study: “Putnam’s Camp,” No. 2. “Charles Ives was composing pieces of irrational juxtaposition of musi-cal ideas and deliberately distorted harmonies” (423).

Source: Book
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
A. Textbook Accounts

Sakae, Yoneda

Year: 1988
Complete Citation:
Sakae, Yoneda. “Charles Ives no ongakukozo ni okeru de-composition.” Ongakugaku 34/2 (1988): 97-111.
Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
G. Music Theory Analyses

Salzman, Eric

Year: 1967
Complete Citation:
Salzman, Eric. Twentieth -Century Music: An Introduction, 61, 64, 97, 143--148, 152, 164. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall, 1967.
Source: Book
Reprints:

Salzman, Eric. <i>Twentieth -Century Music: An Introduction</i>, 128--131.<i> </i>Second Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall,. 1974. * Third Edition, 1988. * Fourth Edition, 2002: 136--139.

VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
A. Textbook Accounts
Year: 1967
Complete Citation:
Salzman, Eric. “Ives.” In 20th-century Music: An Introduction, 143-147. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1967.
Source: Chapter in Book
Reprints:

Salzman, Eric. “Ives.” In <i>20th-century Music: An Introduction</i>, 128-131. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1974.

VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
A. Textbook Accounts

Saminsky, Lazare

Year: 1949
Complete Citation:
Saminsky, Lazare. Living Music of the Americas, 43, 149-152. New York, NY: Howell, Soskin and Crown, 1949.
Source: Book
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
A. Textbook Accounts

Schoffman, Nachum

Year: 1981
Complete Citation:
Schoffman, Nachum. “Serialism in the Works of Charles Ives.” Tempo: A Quarterly Review of Modern Music, no. 138 (September 1981): 21-32.
Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
G. Music Theory Analyses
Year: 1986
Complete Citation:
Schoffman, Nachum. “Ives: un exemple de polyphonie complexe.” Contrechamps 7 (1986): 155-171.
Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
G. Music Theory Analyses

Schuller, Gunther

Year: 1986
Complete Citation:
Schuller, Gunther. “Form, Content, and Symbol.” In Musings: The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller, 275-276. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Notes:

Discusses absolute music and program music.

Source: Chapter in Book
VI. Topical Studies
G. Music Theory Analyses

Scott, Ann Besser

Year: 1994
Complete Citation:
Scott, Ann Besser. “Medieval and Renaissance Techniques in the Music of Charles Ives: Horatio at the Bridge?” Musical Quarterly 78/3 (Fall 1994): 448-478.
Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
G. Music Theory Analyses

Searle, Humphrey

Year: 1954
Complete Citation:
Searle, Humphrey. Twentieth Century Counterpoint, 124-126, 133. London, United Kingdom: Ernest Benn Limited, 1954.
Source: Book
VI. Topical Studies
G. Music Theory Analyses

Simms, Bryan R.

Year: 1996
Complete Citation:
Simms, Bryan R. Music in the Twentieth Century: An Anthology. New York, NY: Schirmer, 1996.
Notes:

Accompanying CD includes Charlie Rutlage and from Paracelsus.

Source: Book
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
A. Textbook Accounts

Sites, Michael

Year: 1993
Complete Citation:
Sites, Michael. “Spatiality Revisited in the Music of Charles Ives.” Paper presented at Ives-Copland Festival. University of Northern Colorado, Hensel-Phelps Auditorium and Theater, Greeley, Colorado, October 28-30, 1993.
Source: Conference paper
VI. Topical Studies
G. Music Theory Analyses

Slominsky, Nicolas

Year: 1937
Complete Citation:
Slominsky, Nicolas. Music since 1900. New York, New York: W.W. Norton, 1937.
Source: Book
Reprints:

Second Edition, 1938. Third Edition, 1949. Fourth Edition, 1971. Fifth Edition, 1994.

VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
A. Textbook Accounts