Essays Before Sonata: The Majority, and Other Writings

by Charles Ives

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393005283
• ISBN13: 9780393005288
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

A highly original writer

A highly original writer, Ives can be a tough read. He follows his asides & digressions in prose much the same way as he does in music. But he dragged Transcendentalism (moaning & groaning) into the 20th Century, wrote a philosophy of insurance sales that is still consulted today, & was not afraid to call for a national referendum prior to the United States committing to war. His ideas about creativity remain, at the core, uncomfortably radical for most of his admirers. Bob Rixon, WFMU-FM