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Bibliography

Genres

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

Witmer, T. Carl

Year: 1929
Complete Citation:
T. Carl Witmer. “New Music.” The Musical Forecast (March 1929): 5-6.
Source: Journal
XI. Reviews of Premieres, Significant Performances, and Recordings
A. Reviews and Announcements of Premieres and Significant Performances

Wohlfahrt, H.T.

Year: 1996
Complete Citation:
Wohlfahrt, H. T. “Unbeantwortete Frage und viele Auskünfte,” review of The Unanswered Question Festival; January 19 to 21: London. Neue Musikzeitschrift 45 (April/May): 51.
Source: Journal
IX. Festivals, Conferences, and Concert Series Dedicated to the Music of Charles Ives
C. Reviews and Announcements of Festivals, Conferences, and Concert Series

Wolf, Henry Samuel

Year: 1957
Complete Citation:
Wolf, Henry Samuel. “The Twentieth Century Piano Sonata.” Ph.D. diss., Boston University, 1957.
Notes:

Ives is one of eight com-posers whose sonatas are discussed.

Source: Ph.D. Dissertation
VIII. Dissertations, Theses, and Baccalaureate Essays
A. Dissertations

Wolffers, Jules

Year: 1958
Complete Citation:
Wolffers, Jules. “New England Composer seen as Trail Blazer: Recordings.” The Christian Science Monitor, February 20, 1958, 5.
Source: Newspaper
XI. Reviews of Premieres, Significant Performances, and Recordings
B. Recording Reviews

Wolfgang Rathert, Hans G. Helms, Christian Wolff, Malcolm Goldstein, and Frederic Rzewski

Year: 2004
Complete Citation:
Wolfgang Rathert, Hans G. Helms, Christian Wolff, Malcolm Goldstein, and Frederic Rzewski. “Politics and Aesthetics.” Panel presented at Symposium at MarzMusik Festival: Festival fur aktuelle Musik. Berlin, Germany, March 18-28, 2004.
Source: Festival
VI. Topical Studies
A. Transcendentalism or Philosophy

Wollny, Ute

Year: 1983
Complete Citation:
Wollny, Ute. “Orchester werke und Kammermusik von Charles Edward Ives bei Radio DDR II.” Musik und Gesellschaft 33 (March 1983): 180-181.
Notes:

Series included twenty-five works; Eberhardt Klemm, commentator.

Source: Journal
B. Recording Reviews

Wong, Justin

Year: 2007
Complete Citation:
Wong, Justin. “A performance approach to Charles Ives' Fourth violin sonata.” M.M. Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2007.
Source: M.M. Thesis
VIII. Dissertations, Theses, and Baccalaureate Essays
B. Theses

Wood, Hugh

Year: 1999
Complete Citation:
Wood, Hugh. Times Literary Supplement 5045, December 10, 1999, 32.
Source: Newspaper Supplement
III. Book-Length Studies
C. Book Reviews

Wood, James

Year: 1986
Complete Citation:
Wood, James. “Microtonality: Aesthetics and Practicality.” Musical Times 127/1720 (June 1986): 328-330.
Notes:

Quotes Ives regarding his father’s quarter-tone machine. Also cites Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for two pianos, Chorale for Strings, Symphony No. 4, and “Some Quarter-Tone Impressions.”

Source: Journal
VI. Topical Studies
G. Music Theory Analyses

Woodard, Josef

Year: 1991
Complete Citation:
Woodard, Josef. “Sounds Around Town a Different Space Composer Henry Brant, a Creator of ‘Spatial Music,’ Will Accompany Michael Ingham in an Evening of Charles Ives Songs: Ventura County Edition.” The Los Angeles Times, September 26, 1991.
Source: Newspaper
XI. Reviews of Premieres, Significant Performances, and Recordings
A. Reviews and Announcements of Premieres and Significant Performances

Woodham, Ronald

Year: 1969
Complete Citation:
Woodham, Ronald. Review of Essays Before a Sonata and Other Writings, by Charles Ives, edited by Howard Boatwright. Music and Letters 50/4 (1969): 526-527
Source: Journal
III. Book-Length Studies
C. Book Reviews

Woodson, Susan Carol

Year: 1991
Complete Citation:
Woodson, Susan Carol. “The Spirit of Charles Ives—Emersonian Thought Revisited.” In American Literature and the Arts, edited by Johan Callens, 23-40. Brussels, Belgium: VUB Press, 1991.
Source: Chapter in Book
VI. Topical Studies
A. Transcendentalism or Philosophy

Woodward, Angela

Year: 2016
Complete Citation:
Woodward, Angela. Liner notes to Charles Ives "Psalm 90.” In Origins and other stories. Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanc Books, 2016.
Source: Book
IV. Individual Studies by Genre
D. Choral Works

Woodward, Henry

Year: 1956
Complete Citation:
Woodward, Henry. “Processional: Let There Be Light.” Notes 13, no. 2 (March 1956): 349.
Source: Journal
X. Editing Practices and Articles Regarding Published Editions
B. Reviews and Announcements of Published Editions

Wooldridge, David

Year: 1974
Complete Citation:
Wooldridge, David. From the Steeples and Mountains. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Republished as Charles Ives: A Portrait. London, United Kingdom: Faber & Faber, 1975.
Source: Book
III. Book-Length Studies
A. Biographies
Year: 1976
Complete Citation:
Wooldridge, David. “Charles Ives and the American National Character: ‘Musical Spirit of ’76.’” In South Florida's Historic Ives Festival 1974-1976, edited by F. Warren O’Reilly, 27--29. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami at Coral Gables, 1976.
Source: Chapter in Book
VI. Topical Studies
L. Ives and America

Woolfe, Zachary

Complete Citation:
Woolfe, Zachary. “The Ives Songbook, Without Interruption.” The New York Times, January 16, 2012, C7.
Source: Newspaper
XI. Reviews of Premieres, Significant Performances, and Recordings
A. Reviews and Announcements of Premieres and Significant Performances
Year: 2012
Complete Citation:
Woolfe, Zachary. “The Ives Songbook, without Interruption: Review.” The New York Times, January 16, 2012.
Source: Newspaper
XI. Reviews of Premieres, Significant Performances, and Recordings
A. Reviews and Announcements of Premieres and Significant Performances

Woolridge, David

Year: 1975
Complete Citation:
Woolridge, David. Charles Ives: A Portrait. London, United Kingdom: Faber & Faber, 1975.
Source: Book
III. Book-Length Studies
A. Biographies

Wright, Allan

Year: 2007
Complete Citation:
Wright, Allan. “Frank Zappa’s orchestral works: art music or “bogus pomp”?” University of Glasgow, M.M. thesis, 2007.
Notes:

Only one mention of Ives.

Source: M.M. Thesis
VIII. Dissertations, Theses, and Baccalaureate Essays
B. Theses