When all is said and done about Ives’ revolutionary technique and imagination, what still matters most to me is that this music has heart, in abundance.
As I get older and more experienced, I begin to understand Charles Ives a lot more. So revolutionary for the time! He was a precursor/way paver for so much...including ambient music/soundscapes (Central Park in the Dark, The Unanswered Question....)
Still modern after 110 years! The polymeters give us a whole different sense of musical time. He was the Tesla of music; all by himself, way out in left field.
Really interesting to compare the first movement, In The Cage, to his song, The Cage, which it is basically an orchestration of, and also to compare the second movement, In The Inn, with the movement of the same name from his first piano sonata.
0:01 I - "In the Cage"
1:02 II - "In the Inn"
5:25 III - "In the Night"
When all is said and done about Ives’ revolutionary technique and imagination, what still matters most to me is that this music has heart, in abundance.
As I get older and more experienced, I begin to understand Charles Ives a lot more. So revolutionary for the time! He was a precursor/way paver for so much...including ambient music/soundscapes (Central Park in the Dark, The Unanswered Question....)
Still modern after 110 years! The polymeters give us a whole different sense of musical time. He was the Tesla of music; all by himself, way out in left field.
WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH!!!!!!!! Ives was incomparably innovative!
Not to mention inventing Gershwin in the 2nd movement . . .
MooPotPie Yes, that bit is a real ear worm!
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John Appleseed, I have seen your name a lot this year. We must have very similar tastes in music!
The Rite Of Spring AND Rhapsody In Blue, then Messiaen in the last movement before any of them existed existed
The resemblance to Messiaen is really uncanny! I was always an Ives fan, but I've never heard this piece before!
Ives was insanely good at his craft.
Really interesting to compare the first movement, In The Cage, to his song, The Cage, which it is basically an orchestration of, and also to compare the second movement, In The Inn, with the movement of the same name from his first piano sonata.
I seriously think that In the night is one of the most haunting pieces ever
YEAH BOIIIII using 5/16 and 7/16 in 1911!
wow never heard this piece...always new weird stuff on ytube...thx for the upload!!!
You can tell how much this has influence jazz especially in the first section
Love the expansiveness of this. Genius.
I can never tell if Ives was being serious or if he was just pulling our chains. He music is effective either way.
Not really very musical.
This rocks!
phantastique
Yes, there is some Gershwin here. Oh, my!
Totally! I heard it right off the bat.
completely agree!
No, there is Ives in Gershwin.
Zappa too.
Capolavoro assoluto
A little bit of quarter tone pieces in the second movement
Yes!
"In the Comments"
There are saxophones in this? Where?
Well this is fucking difficult.