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Vaclav Zurek
A critical examination of the life and legacy of Charles IV.
Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, has been called "one of the most learned and diplomatically…
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Charles C. Helmer IV
A theological examination of God's hearing of human creatures, and a constuctive proposal of the ways in which God's nature conditions that hearing in relation to the doctrines of creation…
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Charles Ford
This book is somewhat unique. I am not the author although it was written through me . He is the author not me. Why I ended up being the one…
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Charles G Harper
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never…
Gayle Sherwood Magee
An engaging reassessment of the seminal American composer
Stuart Feder (The New York Psychoanalytic Institute)
This biography of the American composer Charles Ives (1874-1955) clarifies the complexity of the man and his music. Ives’s music is uniquely autobiographical, and Feder’s straightforward discussion of the music…
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Philip Lambert
An analysis of the music of Charles Ives.
Charles Ives
The Isles of Summer - Nassau and the Bahamas is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas…
(Piano). Volume 3 of The Complete Shorter Piano Works of Charles Ives is a compilation of miscellaneous works by Ives. These works range from small-scale early pieces to larger scale…
"Essays Before a Sonata" is a one-of-a-type and groundbreaking piece of artwork by means of American composer Charles Ives, who recognized for making critical additions to twentieth-century music. This set…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
Chips From The Workshop: Parnassus; The Outlaw???????s Dream; Or The Old Man???????s Counsel And Other Poems is a book of poetry written by Charles Ives. The collection includes various poems…
Charles IV
Reponse de Charles IV, roi des Espagnes et des Indes, au Manifeste de Leopold II, empereur d'Occident, roi des Romains Date de l'edition originale: 1791
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This edition of Charles Ives’ Essays Before a Sonata was originally published in 1920 by The Knickerbocker Press.
This book addresses the relevance of Timaeus’s cosmology to Socrates’ request for a speech about war. Charles Ives finds relevance in the dialogue’s concern for education apropos of the medical…
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recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James,Contact Magazine) A novel…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
The substance of Hawthorne is so dripping wet with the supernatural, the phantasmal, the mystical–so surcharged with adventures, from the deeper picturesque to the illusive fantastic, one unconsciously finds oneself…
Ives’s second piano sonata, Concord, Mass., 1845, stands among the masterpieces of American music.
Presents a volume of 453 letters written by and to composer Charles Ives (1874-1954). This book provides insight into one of the most paradoxical careers in American music history. It…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books…
Frank R. Rossiter
Ive’s life (1874-1954) presents a remarkable set of paradoxes. He was a businessman whose spare-time composing was done in nearly total obscurity during the early years of the twentieth century…
Geoffrey H. Block
This comprehensive work reflects the renewed interest and recognition of Charles Ives’s music, and it gathers into one volume previously scattered and hard-to-find material by and about the composer.
Shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of ways. This volume features essays which examine Ives’ relationships to European music and to American music, politics…
Antony Cooke
Trying to make sense of the music of Charles Ives without a substantial degree of preparation is more likely than not to end with the listener’s rejection. Ives was, of…
Jan Swafford
In his lifetime, Charles Ives and his music were denounced and ridiculed, but in this book he emerges as a precocious, well-trained musician, an experimenter, and a brilliant thinker about…
Although Charles Ives has long been viewed as the quintessential American composer, he placed himself in the European classical tradition, drew on it heavily for his aesthetic philosophy and musical…
A source book incorporating all the most important unpublished writings of America’s great composer.
Vivian Perlis
Interweaving photographs, concert programs, scores, and drawings with the texts of more than fifty interviews, this book is a memory portrait of an enigmatic American composer, told in the voices…
Clayton W. Henderson
Since the celebration of his centennial in 1974, Charles Ives has become an iconic figure in the history of music; his name and compositions are widely recognized, and his influence…
Jessica Dickey
A father's love of music and a daughter's passion for basketball are at odds, thankfully they have modernist composer Charles Ives playing referee. Dissonance, defense, and devotion are explored in…
Benito Perez Galdos,Clara Bell
Jan Royt
In The Prague of Charles IV, 1316-1378, Czech professor of art history Jan Royt renders a vivid image of the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom during the High Gothic period…
Timothy A. Johnson
Baseball and the Music of Charles Ivesoffers readers an exceptionally rich understanding of Charles Ives. Through intelligent discussion of Ives’s musical compositions combined with solid research on the composer’s lifelong…
J. Peter Burkholder
Award-winning music historian J. Peter Burkholder explores Charles Ives’s diverse musical output and unusual career, discussing about thirty of the best and most characteristic pieces framed with biographical sketches. Offering…
Kyle Gann
In 1921, insurance executive Charles Ives sent out copies of a piano sonata to two hundred strangers. Laden with dissonant chords, complex rhythm, and a seemingly chaotic structure, the so-called…
(Study Score). Critical Edition. Revision approved by The Ives Society, 2001.
Charles Linnaeus Ives
Charles Becht IV
This essential new volume provides background information, historical perspective, and expert commentary on the ASME B31.1 Code requirements for power piping design and construction. It provides the most complete coverage…
