Charles E. Ives

A source book incorporating all the most important unpublished writings of Americas great composer. Here are most of the previously unpublished writings of Charles E. Ives: a primary source book on this unique American composer. These Memos as Ives called them were on separate leaves and dealt with his music composition criticism autobiography biography and many other topics. During his lifetime Ives rearranged them lent them out mislaid and tucked them away in books so that in the late 1940s only about three-fifths of them were available to his biographer. After his death in 1954 Ives''s papers were gradually put in order and in time most of the remaining leaves came to light. These two batches are here dovetailed into a three-part form by John Kirkpatrick who has devotedly arranged edited and annotated them. Part One Pretext sets forth Ives''s aims his views on music critics and criticism. In part Two Scrapbook Ives discusses his music. Part Three Memories is devoted to biographical and autobiographical remembrances.