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Charles Ives, 129 Songs. Critical Commentaries Cri tic al Com me n tar ie s f o r C h a r l e s I v e s 1 2 9 S O N G S Edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock To accompany Music of the United States of America • Volume 12 Recent Researches in American Music • Volume 46 Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, Inc., Middleton, Wisconsin Copyright © 2004 American Musicological Society Typography by Ron Wiecki P r e f a c e The Charles Ives Society commissioned the critical edition of 129 Songs by Ives in 1990. Accepted in 1993 for inclusion as a volume of the American Musicological Society’s series Music of the United States of America "MUSA#, 129 Songs was published in the summer of 2004 as MUSA Volume 12. The critical commentaries of the edition were prepared according to the Ives Society’s exceptionally generous editorial guidelines, resulting in very detailed and lengthy commentaries. These were considered unnecessarily elaborate for the published MUSA volume; instead, that includes briefer critical $reports,% the report for each song being abstracted from its corresponding critical commentary. Hard copies of the complete critical commentaries herein are deposited for on-site study in the music libraries of Yale University and the University of Michigan, the Music Research Division of the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, and the Music Division of the Library of Congress; they will also be available for viewing and downloading on the Ives Society and MUSA websites. Here, preceding the critical commentaries are explanatory excerpts from the $Apparatus% of the MUSA vol- ume, slightly revised as necessary. &N.B. Pages 18, 38, 58, 84, 146, 228, and 256 are intentionally blank.' Table 1 below reproduces the 129 songs in the order in which they appear in the MUSA volume "and the critical commentaries to follow here#. Table 1 129 Songs, Ordered Chronologically 1. Slow March "p. 1# 2. A Song(For Anything "p. 2# a. Hear My Prayer, O Lord b. When the waves softly sigh c. Yale, Farewell! 3. At Parting "p. 4# 4. Abide with me "p. 6# 5. When stars are in the quiet skies "p. 8# 6. Nature’s Way "p. 10# 7. Mirage "p. 11# 8. Canon "p. 12# 9. Song for Harvest Season "p. 14# 10. Waltz "p. 17# 11. The Circus Band "p. 19# 12. A Night Song "p. 21# 13. A Christmas Carol "p. 22# 14. Rosamunde "p. 23# 15. Night of Frost in May "p. 25# 16. Songs my mother taught me "p. 27# 17. Amphion "p. 29# 18. My Native Land "p. 31# 19. A Son of a Gambolier "p. 34# 20. K)ren "p. 36# 21. The World’s Wanderers "p. 39# 129 Songs: Notes & Commentaries ii 22. The South Wind / Die Lotosblume "p. 40# 23. A Night Thought "p. 43# 24. Marie "p. 44# 25. An Old Flame "p. 46# 26. In the Alley "p. 48# 27. I travelled among unknown men "p. 50# 28. Dreams "p. 52# 29. Qu’il m’irait bien "p. 54# 30. Memories "p. 56# a. Very Pleasant b. Rather Sad 31. There is a lane "p. 59# 32. Feldeinsamkeit / In Summer Fields "p. 60# 33. Ich grolle nicht / I’ll not complain "p. 63# 34. Chanson de Florian "p. 66# 35. Naught that country needeth "p. 68# 36. Forward into Light "p. 72# 37. Rough Wind "p. 76# 38. Harpalus "p. 78# 39. Evidence "p. 80# 40. Tarrant Moss "p. 82# 41. Slugging a Vampire "p. 85# 42. The Waiting Soul "p. 87# 43. Flag Song "p. 89# 44. Where the eagle cannot see "p. 90# 45. Omens and Oracles "p. 92# 46. Allegro "p. 95# 47. Romanzo "di Central Park# "p. 96# 48. Berceuse "p. 98# 49. Du alte Mutter / My dear old mother "p. 100# 50. The Children’s Hour "p. 102# 51. El*gie "p. 103# 52. Ilmenau / Over all the treetops "p. 105# 53. Weil’ auf mir / Eyes so dark "p. 107# 54. Walking "p. 109# 55. Those Evening Bells "p. 111# 56. The Light That Is Felt "p. 113# 57. The Cage "p. 115# 58. The World’s Highway "p. 117# 59. Spring Song "p. 119# 60. Soliloquy "p. 121# 61. Autumn "p. 123# 62. Tolerance "p. 126# 63. A Farewell to Land "p. 128# 64. Mists "p. 130# 65. Religion "p. 132# 66. Requiem "p. 134# 67. Vote for Names! Names! Names! "p. 136# 68. The Camp Meeting "p. 138# 69. His Exaltation "p. 141# 70. Watchman! "p. 144# 71. The New River "p. 147# 72. The See’r "p. 149# 73. December "p. 151# 74. Like a Sick Eagle "p. 155# 129 Songs: Notes & Commentaries iii 75. Luck and Work "p. 158# 76. Lincoln, the Great Commoner "p. 160# 77. Old Home Day "p. 164# 78. General William Booth Enters into Heaven "p. 167# 79. Thoreau "p. 174# 80. Swimmers "p. 177# 81. At the River "p. 181# 82. The Innate "p. 184# 83. In Flanders Fields "p. 187# 84. He Is There! "p. 190# 85. They Are There! "p. 193# 86. The Things Our Fathers Loved "p. 196# 87. Tom Sails Away "p. 198# 88. To Edith "p. 202# 89. Down East "p. 204# 90. Serenity "p. 206# 91. Cradle Song "p. 207# 92. Afterglow "p. 209# 93. The Collection "p. 212# 94. Grantchester "p. 213# 95. La Fede "p. 215# 96. August "p. 216# 97. September "p. 218# 98. On the Counter "p. 221# 99. Maple Leaves "p. 223# 100. Charlie Rutlage "p. 225# 101. At Sea "p. 229# 102. Hymn "p. 231# 103. Remembrance "p. 234# 104. The $Incantation% "p. 236# 105. The Last Reader "p. 239# 106. The Housatonic at Stockbridge "p. 241# 107. The Indians "p. 245# 108. West London "p. 2470 109. Two Slants "Christian and Pagan# "p. 249# a. Duty b. Vita 110. Walt Whitman "p. 253# 111. The Rainbow "So May It Be!# "p. 257# 112. Majority "p. 260# 113. Premonitions "p. 265# 114. Nov. 2, 1920 "An Election# "p. 267# 115. The Side Show "p. 272# 116. $1, 2, 3% "p. 274# 117. Paracelsus "p. 275# 118. Ann Street "p. 278# 119. Immortality "p. 281# 120. Two Little Flowers "p. 283# 121. The Greatest Man "p. 285# 122. Resolution "p. 287# 123. Disclosure "p. 288# 124. The White Gulls "p. 289# 125. Evening "p. 291# 126. Aeschylus and Sophocles "p. 292# 127. On the Antipodes "p. 294# 129 Songs: Notes & Commentaries iv & Addenda' 128. Song without words &I' "p. 296# 129. Song without words &II' "p. 297# Table 2 is a list of the 129 Songs ordered alphabetically by title. Following the title of each is its ordinal number "as in Table 1# and the page number beginning its critical commen- tary. Table 2 129 Songs, Listed Alphabetically By Title (Numbers following title = number of song in this edition / page number beginning its critical commentary) Abide with me "4 / p. 6# Aeschylus and Sophocles "126 / p. 292# Afterglow "92 / p. 209# Allegro "46 / p. 95# Amphion "17 / p. 29# Ann Street "118 / p. 278# At Parting "3 / p. 4# At Sea "101 / p. 229# At the River "81 / p. 181# August "96 / p. 216# Autumn "61 / p. 123# Berceuse "48 / p. 98# Cage, The "57 / p. 115# Camp Meeting, The "68 / p. 138# Canon "8 / p. 12# Chanson de Florian "34 / p. 66# Charlie Rutlage "100 / p. 225# Children’s Hour, The "50 / p. 102# Christmas Carol, A "13 / p. 19# Circus Band "11 / p. 19# Collection, The "93 / p. 212# Cradle Song "91 / p. 207# December "73 / p. 151# Disclosure "123 / p. 288# Down East "89 / p. 204# Dreams "28 / p. 52# Du alte Mutter / My dear old mother "49 / p. 100# Duty "see Two Slants# Election, An "see Nov. 2, 1920# El*gie "51 / p. 103# Evening "125 / p. 291# Evidence "39 / p. 80# Eyes so dark "see Weil’ auf mir# Farewell to Land, A "63 / p. 128# Fede, La "95 / p. 215# Feldeinsamkeit / In Summer Fields "32 / p. 60# Flag Song "43 / p. 89# Forward into Light "36 / p. 72# General William Booth Enters into Heaven "78 / p. 167# Grantchester "94 / p. 213# Greatest Man, The "121 / p. 285# Harpalus "38 / p. 78# 129 Songs: Notes & Commentaries v He Is There! "84 / p. 190# His Exaltation "69 / p. 141# Housatonic at Stockbridge, The "106 / p. 241# Hymn "102 / p. 231# I travelled among unknown men "27 / p. 50# Ich grolle nicht / I’ll not complain "33 / p. 63# I’ll not complain "see Ich grolle nicht# Ilmenau / Over all the treetops "52 / p. 105# Immortality "119 / p. 281# In Flanders Fields "83 / p. 187# In Summer Fields "see Feldeinsamkeit# In the Alley "26 / p. 48# $Incantation,% The "104 / p. 236# Indians, The "107 / p. 245# Innate, The "82 / p. 184# K)ren "20 / p. 36# Last Reader, The "105 / p. 239# Light That Is Felt, The "56 / p. 113# Like a Sick Eagle "74 / p. 155# Lincoln, the Great Commoner "76 / p. 160# Lotosblume, Die "see The South Wind# Luck and Work "75 / p. 158# Majority "112 / p. 260# Maple Leaves "99 / p. 223# Marie "24 / p. 44# Memories "30 / p. 56# a. Very Pleasant b. Very Sad Mirage "7 / p. 11# Mists "64 / p. 130# My Native Land "18 / p. 31# Nature’s Way "6 / p. 10# Naught that country needeth "35 / p. 68# New River, The "71 / p. 147# Night of Frost in May "15 / p. 25# Night Song, A "12 / p. 21# Night Thought, A "23 / p. 43# Nov. 2, 1920 "An Election# "114 / p.
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