On 2001-02-06 , wrote: J. Peter Burkholder´s book ´All Made of Tunes´ is one of the most important books about Ives´s music. Burkholder´s book exhaustively surveys Ives´s music, identifying many ways in which Ives borrowed existing tunes (hymns, popular tunes, patriotic tunes, etc). There are many musical examples that support Burkholder´s arguments, and the book also has one of the best bibliographies on Ives out there. For anyone with some musical training who´s interested in how Ives borrowed tunes, this book is essential.. And summed up by saying Extremely important book about Ives. Currently All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing has an overall rating of 10 over 10.
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Yale University Press claimed ´An extremely important and gracefully written book on a significant and controversial topic. It is the most thoroughgoing study of Ives´s compositional procedures that has yet been attempted.´-Larry Starr, author of A Union of Diversities: Style in the Music of Charles Ives ´A unique in-depth study of Ives´s works, the most panoramic view of the music ever written, based on a new and convincing perspective.´-H. Wiley Hitchcock, City University of New York ´A unique, pathbreaking, and utterly convincing study of Ives´s music.´-David Nicholls, BBC Music Magazine ´A well-balanced view of Ives´s music...[A] pathbreaking study.´-David Nicholls, Times Literary Supplement ´This book should be in the library of every scholar with a serious interest in Ives´s music...Burkholder´s writing throughout ...is refreshingly clear, and his ability to organize vast amounts of detail into coherent and logical sequences is one of the greatest strengths of the book, and particularly appropriate to its subject.´-Kathryn Bumpass, Notes ´The book is well stocked with music examples and tables, enabling it to be used as a reference work, and has almost 100 pages of notes and bibliography. It abundantly fulfils its promise ´to help us hear the music better´ and enriches our experience of Ives in a way that is totally sympathetic to the man and his music.´-Peter Dickinson, Music & Letters ´Burkholder´s remarkable book succeeds in creating a different composite portrait of the musical consciousness of a great composer.´-Judith Tick, American Music Winner of the Choice 1996 Outstanding Academic Book Award
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