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Ives and Copland: A Listener's Guide
Daniel Felsenfeld
Charles Ives and Aaron Copland are two composers whose works define what is now considered to be the “American sound” in classical music. Though they couldn’t have been more different in disposition, these two brilliant minds helped shape the musical consciousness of an entire era. Ives and Copland: A Listener's Guide explains—in vivid, picturesque detail—why we still listen with admiration to the work of these men, and how their personalities and the era in which they lived affected their music.
The accompanying CD includes a sampling of their music from masterworks such as Appalachian Spring and The Unanswered Question to less common (yet every bit as worthwhile) gems. Guided listenings deliver a comprehensive account of exactly how the pieces work.
Though these men don’t lack for documentation, Ive and Copland: A Listener's Guide is an easier, more intimate introduction to their work and lives for the layman or neophyte—or even for the musician—who wants to know more about these composers.
Accompanying CD contains excerpts from BMG Classics Recordings of the following works:
Copland: Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra, with Harp and Piano
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Copland: El Salón México
Ives: The Unanswered Question
Ives: Memories
Ives: General William Booth Enters into Heaven
Ives: Three Places in New England (“Putnam’s Camp, Redding, Conneticut”)
1-57467-098-0, 224 pp, includes a music CD, 6 x 9", paperback, © 2004
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"The guide succeeds in making the music accessible without dumbing it down at all or trying to popularize it. Felsenfeld is himself a composer and a music writer bringing to the task not only compatibility with Ives and Copland, but also an educator's understanding of the reader's position in wanting to learn more about them and enhance appreciation of their music. With the book is the treat of a CD offering ample samplings of music, including Copland's complete "Appalachian Spring" and four pieces of Ives', who wrote shorter, intense works."
— Reviewer's Bookwatch
""Felsenfeld writes a breezy prose based on recent research . . . Judging from this debut volume, the [Parallel Lives] series will help those who want to know more about these composers.""
— Clavier
"Felsenfeld succeeds . . . in managing to express complex musical ideas without the aid of notation. In the case of Ives especially, this opens up works that might otherwise remain intellectually opaque to a large number of potential listeners. He‚s particularly strong at explaining some of the structural innovations in the two men‚s works and he‚s wonderful at penning character portraits. Nor, despite his evident love for his works, does Felsenfeld shy away from the thorniest debate surrounding Ives‚ output: how much the composer may or may not have amended his scores years later to make them sound more 'radical'. All this biography, analysis and listening advice is presented in 244 pages impressively concise."
— Muso Magazine
, Spring 2005
"Music lovers will enjoy two new books from Amadeus Press, Pompton Plains, NJ. One is called Parallel Lives: Ives and Copland ($19.95) by Daniel Felsenfeld and the other is The Mahler Symphonies: An Owner's Manual ($19.95) by David Hurwitz. What makes each book particularly useful and interesting is the way both come with a CD disk. Whether you know a lot or nothing about these composers and their works, I guarantee you that, after reading either of these books, you will have acquired a body of knowledge that will enable you to listen to them with a new appreciation."
— Picks of the Month, www.bookviews.com
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