Week 3 - Charles Ives

Question 1

Charles Ives facts

Answer 1

• worn in Danberry Connecticut and 1874
• died in NYC in 1954
• wrote “variations on America”
  Yale Princeton football game, The pond, the Concorde Sonata, the unanswered question (1906), the Fourth of July, 114 songs, General William booth enters into heaven, and four symphonies among many other works.
  – Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947
• moved to New York in 1908 he married Harmony Twitchell - A family friend of Mark twain
• Tone clusters - The Conchord sonata had a 14.75 inch block of wood on the keys

Question 2

George Ives

Answer 2

• Charles Ives’ father
• The music of Charles Ives is inextricably linked to his extraordinary life story.
• and I’m usually gifted musician and band leader who caught the attention of Grant and Lincoln

1. Humanaphone
2. simultaneous marching bands
3. simultaneous fire engines
4. 2 keyboard piano it’s a quarter tone a part
5. storm music
6. trumpet with slide valves
7. horns at the pond