Valse noble from Carnaval

Schumann/arr. Ives

Charles Ives (1874–1954) attended Yale College (1894–98), largely focusing on music, studying with the organist/composer Horatio Parker. One of Ives’s orchestration projects in his junior year was to arrange for full orchestra the first and fourth movements of Robert Schumann’s piano work Carnaval of 1833–35. Ives scored on the first 23 bars of the “Préamble” (which would have 139 measures if Ives completed his task); his score of “Valse noble” is complete. Notably, in mm. 9–24 of the “Valse noble” Ives gave the Violas and Cellos a new running line.