Charles Ives and His Music,

Ives music is a cultural sourcebook of AMerica at the turn of the century. Ives took the evangelical hymns, the college songs, the melodies of the dance hall, the tunes of small town bands, and the sounds of village life, shaped them according to his Transcendentalist veiw of the natural world, and turned them into fresh musical works wich are at once familiar and of startling originality.