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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

Bauer, Marion

Year: 1947
Complete Citation:
Bauer, Marion. “Charles Ives Receives Award.” Musical Leader 79/6 (June 1947): 9.
Notes:

Notice of Ives's receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Symphony No. 3. Includes remarks about his being ignored and overlooked.

Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards

Beckwith, Ethel

Year: 1947
Complete Citation:
Beckwith, Ethel. “Pulitzer Prize Winner Scoffs at $1,000 Award.” Sunday Herald (Bridgeport, Connecticut), May 11, 1947, 1, 16.
Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards

Burkholder, J. Peter

Year: 2001
Complete Citation:
Burkholder, J. Peter. “Ives, Charles Edward.” In New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie. 2nd edition. New York, NY: MacMillan Publishers, 2001.
Source: Encyclopedia article
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
C. Dictionary Entries

Ewen, David

Year: 1982
Complete Citation:
Ewen, David. American Composers: A Biographical Dictionary. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1982: 323-325.
Source: Book
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
C. Dictionary Entries

Gann, Kyle

Year: 1991
Complete Citation:
Gann, Kyle. “Pulitzer Hacks: Amateur Composers versus the Profes-sionals.” Village Voice, July 30, 1991.
Notes:

Cites the story from Milton Babbitt that Ives was not a professional composer.

Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards
Year: 1992
Complete Citation:
Gann, Kyle. “Composer’s Clearing House: The Pulitzer Prize.” Village Voice, May 5, 1992.
Notes:

Claims Lou Harrison urged Ives to “expunge the 'ex-perimental' parts of the Third Symphony” [i.e., “shadow parts”].

Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards

Glanville-Hicks, Peggy

Year: 1973
Complete Citation:
Glanville-Hicks, Peggy. “Ives, Charles.” In Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 4, 560. 5th ed. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1973.
Source: Chapter in Book
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
C. Dictionary Entries

Hartke, Stephen

Year: 2004
Complete Citation:
Hartke, Stephen. “Center Stage: Ives: Our Musical Grandfather.” In Charles Ives: An American Original in Context, 22, 24, 26. Program booklet [Playbill]. New York, NY: Avery Fischer Hall, May 11-29, 2004.
Source: Program Booklet
IX. Festivals, Conferences, and Concert Series Dedicated to the Music of Charles Ives
D. Program Notes

Ives, Charles

Year: 1937
Complete Citation:
“Ives, Charles.” In Who’s Who Today in the Musical World (1937), 58, 191-192.
Source: Magazine
VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
C. Dictionary Entries

Keller, James M.

Year: 2004
Complete Citation:
Keller, James M. “Notes on the Program.” May 12 (35--38); May 15, 19-20 (45--49); May 11, 13 (35--39); May 21-22, 25 (35--40, 40D, 40E); May 27--29 (38, 45-48). In Charles Ives: An American Original in Context. Program booklet [Playbill]. New York, NY: Avery Fischer Hall, May 11-29, 2004.
Source: Program Booklet
IX. Festivals, Conferences, and Concert Series Dedicated to the Music of Charles Ives
D. Program Notes

Kirkpatrick, John

Year: 1980
Complete Citation:
Kirkpatrick, John. “Ives, Charles E.” In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie. London, UK: Macmillan Publishers, 1980.
Source: Article
Reprints:

Kirkpatrick, John and Paul C. Echols. “Ives, Charles E.” In <i>The New Grove Dictionary of American Music and Musicians</i>, edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie. New York, NY: Macmillan<i>, </i>1986. * Kirkpatrick, John, et. al. “Ives, Charles E.” In <i>The New Grove 20th-Century American Masters: Ives, Thomson, Sessions, Cowell, Gershwin, Copland, Carter, Barber, Cage, Bernstein</i>. New York, NY: New York: W.W. Norton, 1998: 1-52.

VII. Entries in Larger Volumes
C. Dictionary Entries

Kozinn, Allan

Year: 1998
Complete Citation:
Kozinn, Allan. “Composer Wins Freedom, but It's Temporary.” The New York Times, January 15 1998.
Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards
Year: 2000
Complete Citation:
Kozinn, Allan. “Chinese-Born Composer Wins $225,000 Ives Prize.” The New York Times, December 21, 2000, sec. E, 11.
Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards

Manfried, Walter

Year: 1948
Complete Citation:
Manfried, Walter. “Composer Won a Pulitzer Prize, But He’s Still the Great Unheard: Charles Ives Has Written Strange Music for Horns, But Doesn’t Toot His Own.” Green Sheet - Milwaukee Journal. June 23, 1948.
Source: Newspaper
VI. Topical Studies
V. Awards

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

Ross, Alex

Year: 1993
Complete Citation:
Ross, Alex. “A Battleground for Iconoclasts: A Piano Series shows American Composers at War for the New.” The New York Times, November 14, 1993, 79.
Source: Newspaper
IX. Festivals, Conferences, and Concert Series Dedicated to the Music of Charles Ives
D. Program Notes

Sachs, Joel

Year: 2004
Complete Citation:
Sachs, Joel. “All About Ives—Half a Century Later.” Program notes for seven programs. Lincoln Center, Juilliard School of Music, New York, New York, January 23-30, 2004.
Source: Program Notes
IX. Festivals, Conferences, and Concert Series Dedicated to the Music of Charles Ives
D. Program Notes

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

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

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