All Made of Tunes – Charles Ives & The Uses of Musical Borrowing: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing - Hardcover

Burkholder, J Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300056427 ISBN 13: 9780300056426

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Charles Ives is famous for using borrowed material in his music. Almost 200 individual works or movements, spanning his entire career and representing more than a third of his output, incorporate music by other composers or from his own previous work. This study identifies the different kinds of "quotations" in Ives's music, explores the complex musical, aesthetic and psychological motivations behind the borrowings, and shows the purpose, techniques, and effects that characterize each one. Burkholder catalogues 14 ways that Ives borrowed, ranging from direct quotation to paraphrase, variation, collage, modelling and stylistic allusion. Arguing that these borrowing procedures were compositional strategies, he provides a new perspective on Ives's process of composition. In addition, by tracing the development of Ives's borrowing practices through his career, he contributes to an understanding of the composer's stylistic evolution. And by showing how much of Ives's music uses borrowing procedures that are common to many composers, he reveals that Ives is not as far removed from the classic-romantic tradition as has been thought. Finally, Burkholder's treatment of Ives's borrowing techniques offers a new perspective on the entire field of musical borrowing. The book includes 120 musical examples.

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BURKHOLDER, J. P. ALL MADE OF TUNES. CHARLES IVES AND THE USES OF MUSICAL BORROWING [HARDBACK] . LONDON, 1995, xii 554 p.,notaciones musicales. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

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Charles Ives is famous for using borrowed material in his music. Almost two hundred individual works or movements, spanning his entire career and representing more than a third of his output, incorporate music by other composers or from his own previous work. In this book, the eminent Ives scholar J. Peter Burkholder identifies the different kinds of "quotations" in Ives's music, explores the complex musical, aesthetic, and psychological motivations behind the borrowings, and shows the purpose, techniques, and effects that characterize each one. Burkholder catalogues fourteen distinct ways that Ives borrowed, ranging from direct quotation to paraphrase, variation, collage, modeling, and stylistic allusion. Arguing that these borrowing procedures were compositional strategies, he provides a new perspective on Ives's process of composition. In addition, by tracing the development of Ives's borrowing practices through his career, Burkholder contributes to an understanding of the composer's stylistic evolution. And by showing how much of Ives's music uses borrowing procedures that are common to many composers, he reveals that Ives is not as far removed from the classic-romantic tradition as has been thought. Finally, Burkholder's comprehensive treatment of Ives's borrowing techniques offers a new perspective on the entire field of musical borrowing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0300056427
• ISBN 13: 9780300056426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 566