FROM FIRST ARTICLE(IVES ESSAYEXCERPTS SWAFFORD)Answer TWO of these questions:
a) Discuss the impact of 1) Charles Ives’ father George and 2) his upbringing in Danbury, CT, upon his career as a composer.
b) What did Ives mean by “the music of the ages”? How are quotes from music by other composers involved?
c) Ives said “What does sound have to do with music?” What did he mean?
d) Why did Ives’s career as a composer require “the courage of a lion”?
Read the excerpts and answer TWO of the following questionsIves and Other Commentator
a) What, according to Ives, is the relationship between his work in the business world and his work as a musician?
b) What, according to Ives, is the responsibility of a composer to his craft?
c) What, according to Ives, is the responsibility of a composer to his listeners?
d) What is the opinion of the composers Henry Cowell and Aaron Copland regarding Charles Ives and his music? How is their response to his music different from the response of music critic Winthrop P. Tryon?
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