Fugue from String Quartet No. 1
Product ID: HL2 04491490
By Charles Ives
Publisher:
Hal Leonard
Arranger:
Longfield
Series:
Music for String Orchestra
Genre:
20th cent.
Line Up:
String Orchestra
Duration:
5:30
Level: 3-4
Set & Score
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About this item
The First String Quartet (c. 1897-1900) was Ives' first composition of extended length, written under the supervision of Horatio Parker at Yale University. Subtitled "A Revival Service," the piece quotes traditional hymns of the United States and reveals Ives' early polytonal experimentation. The first movement is a fugue based on the hymn "From Greenland's Icy Mountains"; Ives felt so strongly about the movement that he later rescored it for the third movement of his Fourth Symphony.
Songlist (3)
- String Quartet No.1 "From the Salvation Army" (c. 1897-1900):
- I. Chorale
Instrumentation
1x FULL SCORE pg.12
8x VIOLIN 1 pg.2
8x VIOLIN 2 pg.2
4x VIOLA pg.2
4x CELLO pg.2
4x BASS 4 pg.1
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Composer
Charles Ives
Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original". Ives combined the American popular and church-music traditions of his youth with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and quarter tones,[4] foreshadowing many musical innovations of the 20th century.
Sources of Ives' tonal imagery are hymn tunes and traditional songs, the town band at holiday parade, the fiddlers at Saturday night dances, patriotic songs, sentimental parlor ballads, and the melodies of Stephen Foster
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