A Union of Diversities: Style in the Music of Charles Ives

by Larry Starr

Book Overview

In A union of diversities, Larry Starr offers a new appreciation of Ives's extraordinary music, based on his firm conviction that Ives need not be solely a specialist's composer. He argues that Ives's music reveals the composer's genuine engagement with the most serious aesthetic issues of style and coherence of his day. Further, he shows that style itself is the key to unlocking what the music is about, and specifically the heterogeneity of musical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028724658
• ISBN13: 9780028724652
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.