All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing

by J. Peter Burkholder

Book Overview

"An extremely important and gracefully written book on a significant and controversial topic. It is the most thoroughgoing study of Ives's compositional procedures that has yet been attempted."-Larry Starr, author of A Union of Diversities: Style in the Music of Charles Ives "A unique in-depth study of Ives's works, the most panoramic view of the music ever written, based on a new and convincing perspective."-H. Wiley Hitchcock, City University of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300102127
• ISBN13: 9780300102123
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Extremely important book about Ives

J. Peter Burkholder's book "All Made of Tunes" is one of the most important books about Ives's music. Burkholder's book exhaustively surveys Ives's music, identifying many ways in which Ives borrowed existing tunes (hymns, popular tunes, patriotic tunes, etc). There are many musical examples that support Burkholder's arguments, and the book also has one of the best bibliographies on Ives out there. For anyone with some musical training who's interested in how Ives borrowed tunes, this book is essential.