Suggested Reading

Burkholder, J. Peter. Charles Ives: The Ideas Behind the Music. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

Burkholder, J. Peter. All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

Feder, Stuart. "My Father's Song": A Psychoanalytic Biography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Hitchcock, H. Wiley. Ives: A Survey of the Music. Brooklyn: Institute for Studies in American Music, 1983.

Perlis, Vivian. Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974.

Sinclair, James B. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Swafford, Jan. Charles Ives: A Life with Music. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.

The information in this brochure is drawn from A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives by James B. Sinclair (Yale University Press, October 1999), which presents information produced by recent Ives scholarship and generous commentary on each of Ives's compositions.

Each entry in the Descriptive Catalogue includes:

• main title and any other titles the composer may have used,
• forces required,
• duration (total and per movement),
• headings of movements,
• publication history,
• citation of the first known performance and first recording,
• the derivation of the work, listing music on which it may be modeled or from which it    may borrow material,
• the principal literature treating the piece,
• and commentary on these and other matters.

The catalogue also provides musical incipits for all of Ives's extant works, seven appendices (covering his work list, "Quality Photo" lists, his songbooks, a chronology of his life, recordings made by Ives, and his private publications and commercial publishers), three concordances (to numbers in Kirkpatrick's Temporary Catalogue numbers, AmeriGrove, and microfilm frames), and four extensive indexes (addresses, names, titles, and musical borrowings).

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