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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

Stringham, Edward J.

Year: 1921
Complete Citation:
Stringham, Edward J. “Ives Puzzles Critics with His Cubistic Sonata and ‘Essays’.” Rocky Mountain News (Denver), July 31, 1921, sec. 2, 1, 17.
Source: Newspaper
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
C. Keyboard Works

Sweet, Michael

Year: 2014
Complete Citation:
Sweet, Michael. “Charles Ives: Concord Sonata (1919).” In Writing Interactive Music for Video Games: A Composer’s Guide. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley, 2014.
Source: Chapter in Book
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
C. Keyboard Works

Sykes, James

Year: 1964
Complete Citation:
Sykes, James. “Program Notes on the Shorter Piano Pieces of Charles Ives.” Liner notes for The Short Piano Pieces of Charles Ives. Folkways FM 3348, 1964, 33.3 RPM.
Source: Liner notes
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
C. Keyboard Works

Toncitch, Vonya

Year: 1972
Complete Citation:
Toncitch, Voya. “‘Three Page Sonata’ by Charles Ives.” Melos 5 (Septem-ber-October 1972): 277-279.
Source: Journal
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
C. Keyboard Works

Tryon, Winthrop P.

Complete Citation:
Tryon, Winthrop P. “New Yorker Writing Music for Quarter-Tone Piano.” Christian Science Monitor, January 13, 1925, 10.
Source: Newspaper
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
C. Keyboard Works
Year: 1925
Complete Citation:
Tryon, Winthrop P. “Quarter-Tone Experiments.” Christian Science Monitor, February 7, 1925, 8.
Source: Newspaper
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
C. Keyboard Works

Tyler, Charles Ives

Year: 1977
Complete Citation:
Tyler, Charles Ives. “Charles Ives.” Piano Today 17/3 (1977): 8, 10, 54.
Notes:

Part of a pair of articles entitled “American Transcendentalism: Two Compos-ers in the Pioneer Tradition.” Reminiscences by Charles Ives's grand- son about how Ives disliked milk. [The other article is “Ruth Crawford Seeger” by Judith Tick.]

Source: Magazine
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
C. Keyboard Works

Wasson, Jeffrey

Year: 1975-76
Complete Citation:
Wasson, Jeffrey. “The Organ Works of Charles Ives: A Research Summary.” Student Musicologists at Minnesota 6 (1975-76): 280-89.
Source: Journal
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
C. Keyboard Works

Wuellner, Guy S.

Year: 1973
Complete Citation:
Wuellner, Guy S. “The Smaller Piano Works of Charles Ives.” American Music Teacher 22/5 (April-May 1973): 14-16.
Source: Journal
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
C. Keyboard Works

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: 1921
Complete Citation:
“A Futuristic Sonata.” Musical Advance, (April 1921): 16.
Source: Journal
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
C. Keyboard Works
Year: 1921
Complete Citation:
“Concord Unconquered.” Musical Courier, April 28, 1921, 22.
Source: Magazine
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
C. Keyboard Works
Year: 1922
Complete Citation:
“Music Club Hears Lecture Recital on Modern Sonata.” Atlantic Constitution, January 5, 1922, 10.
Source: Newspaper
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
C. Keyboard Works
Year: 1927
Complete Citation:
“Concord.” Birmingham Age-Herald (October 14, 1927).
Source: Newspaper
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
C. Keyboard Works
Year: 1927
Complete Citation:
“Ives Composes Sonata in Modern Style.” Danbury Evening Times, November 19, 1927.
Source: Newspaper
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
C. Keyboard Works
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: 2005
Complete Citation:
“Aus den Diözesen: Wien.” Singende Kirche: Zeitschrift für Katholische Kirchenmusik, Vol. 52, No. 3 (2005): 173-174.
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
C. Keyboard Works
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