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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

Melady, Mark

Year: 1975
Complete Citation:
Melady, Mark. “Inns, Ives Win Prizes for Books.” The Hartford Courant, May 11, 1975, 3A.
Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards

Riemann, Hugo

Year: 1968
Complete Citation:
Riemann, Hugo. Riemann Musik Lexikon, edited by Wilibald Gurlitt, 857--858. Vol. 1. 12th ed. Mainz, Germany: B. Schott, 1968.
Notes:

A compact, but useful, unsigned article with a substantial list of works and a brief biography.

Source: Book/Encyclopedia
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
B. Encyclopedia Entries

Slominsky, Nicholas

Year: 1957
Complete Citation:
Slominsky, Nicholas. “Ives, Charles.” In Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, vol. 6 (1957): 1574-1580.
Source: Journal
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
B. Encyclopedia Entries

Slonimsky, Nicolas

Year: 1989
Complete Citation:
Slonimsky, Nicolas. Lectionary of Music: An Entertaining Reference and Reader’s Companion. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1989.
Notes:

Numerous cita-tions to Ives’s compositions as examples.

Source: Book
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
B. Encyclopedia Entries

Warren, Robert Penn

Year: 1947
Complete Citation:
Warren, Robert Penn. “Sketches of Those Added by Columbia to the Roll of Pulitzer Prize Winners.” The New York Times. May 6, 1947: 1, 20.
Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards

no author listed

Complete Citation:
“Charles Ives.” Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ives.
Notes:

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

Source: Online Article
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
B. Encyclopedia Entries
Complete Citation:
“Life Congratulates…. Charles E. Ives.” Life 27, October 31, 1949, 45.
Source: Magazine
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards
Year: 1935
Complete Citation:
“Ives, Charles (1874).” The Gramophone Music Encyclopedia. New York, NY: 1935: 7.
Source: Encyclopedia
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
B. Encyclopedia Entries
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.

VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
B. Encyclopedia Entries
Year: 1942
Complete Citation:
“Charles Edward Ives.” In National Cyclopedia of American Biography. New York, NY: J.T. White, 1942.
Source: Chapter in Book
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
B. Encyclopedia Entries
Year: 1945
Complete Citation:
“Institute of Arts Names 15 Members.” The New York Times, December 28, 1945, 13.
Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards
Year: 1947
Complete Citation:
“‘All the King’s Men’ Prize Novel, Play Omitted in Pulitzer Awards: Among Winners of the 1946 Pulitzer Prizes Charles Ives Music “Symphony no. 3” Still Racing His Shadow.” New York Herald Tribune, 1947, 1.
Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards
Year: 1947
Complete Citation:
“Among Winners of the 1946 Prizes, Music.” New York Herald Tribune, May 6, 1947.
Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards
Year: 1947
Complete Citation:
“Charles Ives at Last is Recognized.” New York Post, May 6, 1947.
Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards
Year: 1947
Complete Citation:
“A Prophet with Honor—At Last!” Musical America (May 1947) 67/7: 16.
Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards
Year: 1947
Complete Citation:
“Ives, Charles Edward.” In Current Biography 1947, 330-332. New York, NY: H.W. Wilson, 1947.
Source: Chapter in Book
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
B. Encyclopedia Entries
Year: 1947
Complete Citation:
The Year in American Music 1946--1947, edited by Julian Bloom, 343. New York, NY: Allen Towne & Heath.
Notes:

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.”

Source: Book
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
B. Encyclopedia Entries
Year: 1948
Complete Citation:
“Ives to Receive Award: Will be Honored by National Composers Group Tonight.” The New York Times, May 14, 1948, 26.
Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards
Year: 1954
Complete Citation:
“Charles E. Ives: Pulitzer Prize Composer After Long Obscurity, 79.” Daily Boston Globe, May 20, 1954, 31.
Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards
Year: 1991
Complete Citation:
“Up Front.” Musical America (1991).
Notes:

Regarding a bill in the Connecticut Legislature to name Charles Ives as State Composer of Connecticut. After debate, Ives was named Composer Laureate for the first year.

Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards