Education
Music 271: 4/11/07II: Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Evolving approach to musical composition: tonality and form:• Short and simple motives, developed in a harmonically ambiguous environment• 20th century approach to harmony and melodyIII: Charles Ives (1874-1954):A: Organization of Crawford’s discussion:• Prologue - recap about the sacrilization of art music in America• Biography of Ives - profound impact of his father on his life (father died when Ives was 19)• Art Songs -• Instrumental Music -• Most celebrated American composer of art music• Very complicated individual (emotionally and psychologically)• Life insurance salesman - Estate planning is accredited to him• Compositional activities only took up about 20 years of his life• Rest of his life spent encouraging performance of his works and supporting other younger composers• Leonard Bernstein helped draw public attention to the composers works• B: Distinctive characteristics of Ives:• Ongoing and continuous memorial to this father (role of memory)C: His father’s influence:• George Edward Ives• Youngest band master in the Civil War• Experimentalist in music• 1894 - death of G.E. Ives: very traumatic for Charles Ives• Came to idealize his fatherD: Song: “The Things Our Fathers Loved”:• Most of the melody is taken from one 19th century piece or anotherE: “The Housatonic at Stockbridge”: The Three Places in New England: two treatments: