Tunes "Borrowed" by Ives

The following pages take you to alphabetical listings in three categories of the known borrowings by Ives of music by other composers. Click on the arrowheads in the right hand columns to listen to sound files of these tunes.

These borrowings have been identified by J. Peter Burkholder in All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995) and by Clayton Henderson in The Charles Ives Tunebook, 2nd ed. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008).

The “Songs” listing encompasses several categories defined separately in Henderson: “Patriotic Songs,” “Popular Songs,” and “College Music,” and some songs that he groups in “Classical Music.” The “Instrumental Pieces” listing presents a number of fiddle tunes.

  Hymns

  Songs

  Instrumental Pieces