IVES’S SYMPHONY NO.1
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When we think of Charles Ives, we think of him as a composer
of innovations. We failed to perceive of him as someone who was taught
the traditions and had a solid understanding of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven
and Brahms. This paper will investigate Ives’ traditional values versus his
innovative ones. His first symphony is an example of how Ives learned,
integrated, and developed his traditional knowledge as he borrowed the
models from the dead masters, and his contemporaries. This work was
an assignment that he wrote for his teacher, Horatio Parker, during his
study at Yale. The work was not merely a student assignment piece but
contained highly complex and solid musical elements. Many people
were misled by the fact that since Ives did not intend to become a
serious musician, his music was not worth of any respect. Such criticisms
were proved as invalid. Due to the complexity of his first Symphony,
which was one of his early compositions, it proved that he understood
and had the total command in handling complex and large symphonic
forms of the tradition.
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