Ives, Charles
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This essentially student work of Charles Ives (1874–1954) was composed around 1896–97 while Ives was a junior at Yale College, possibly as an exercise in orchestration. Stylistically it draws on the French overture tradition which Ives cited as “alla Zampa” (referring to Louis-Ferdinand Hérold’s Zampa Overture).
Schubert/arr. Ives
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Schubert/arr. Ives
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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 Franz Schubert’s 4-hand piano Marche Militaire in D, Op. 51, No. 1 (D. 733) of 1818.
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.
Charles Ives (1874–1954), a lifelong optimist, was shocked and deeply hurt by the German invasion of Belgium which started in August 1914; when Antwerp surrender-ed in October, Ives dashed a musical tirade he called “Sneak Thief,” referring to the German leader Kaiser Willhelm. Ives continued venting in letters and the marginalia of his musical manuscripts. Sneak Thief presents as a private scream. In 1917 Ives took a more practical approach, composing a patriotic song “He Is There!” which has a fully public intention.
Charles Ives (1874–1954) composed at least a dozen partsongs, mostly while he was a student at Yale College (1894–98). His The Year’s at the Spring (1889 or 1892) appears to be the earliest surviving in the genre, but for SATB, not for the more common TTBB. The text is from “Pippa Passes,” no. 1 of Bells and Pomegranates (1836) by Robert Browning.
Ives, Charles text by John Greenleaf Whittier