List of compositions by Charles Ives

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Ives as a teenager

The compositions of American composer Charles Ives (1874–1954) are mostly modern classical music. Documenting his list of works is especially difficult, because he had a tendency not to date his works, or misdate them for some unknown reason. Additionally, he was very prolific, revised works multiple times, and left ambiguous fragments with no title or notes.

Orchestra

Symphonies

Symphony No. 1 in D minor (1898-1902)
Symphony No. 2 (1902, revised 1910)
Symphony No. 3: The Camp Meeting (1901, rev. 1911)
Symphony No. 4 (1916)
A Symphony: New England Holidays (1919)
Universe Symphony (1928, unfinished)

Sets

For orchestra

Orchestral Set No. 1: Three Places in New England (1912–16, revised 1929)
Orchestral Set No. 2 (1909–19)
Orchestral Set No. 3 (1919–26; notes added after 1934)

For chamber orchestra

Set No. 1 (1912); includes Calcium Light Night
Set No. 2 (1912); includes "Gyp the Blood" or Hearst—Which is Worst!? (inc.)
Set No. 3 (1917)
Set No. 4: Three Poets and Human Nature (1925-30?)
Set No. 5: The Other Side of Pioneering, or Side Lights on American Enterprise (1925-30?)
Set No. 6: From the Side Hill (1925-30?)
Set No. 7: Water Colors (1925-30?)
Set No. 8: Songs without Voices (1930?); derived from Set No. 5
Set No. 9 of Three Pieces (1934)
Set No. 10 of Three Pieces (1934) [There are also two more chamber sets assembled in 1934 that are found listed in the same Work-List of Compositions.]
Set for Theatre Orchestra (1915)

Overtures

Alcott Overture (1904, inc., but re-used for the third movement of Piano Sonata No.2)
Emerson Overture for Piano and Orchestra or Emerson Concerto (1911–12, incomplete, but re-used for the first movement of Piano Sonata No.2)
Matthew Arnold Overture (1912, inc.)
Overture and March: 1776 (1904, rev. 1910; re-used in "Putnam's Camp" from Three Places in New England and Holidays Symphony)
Overture in G Minor (1899, inc.)
Overture: Nationals (1915, inc. sketches; adapted from Overture and March: 1776; )
Robert Browning Overture (1914, rev. 1942)

Marches

Holiday Quickstep (1887)
March No. 2, with Son of a Gambolier (1895?)
March No. 3 in F and C (1893?, inc.)
March No. 3, with My Old Kentucky Home (1895?)
March No. 4 in F and C (1894?, inc.)
The Circus Band (1898)

Others

Central Park in the Dark (1906, rev. 1936)
Chromâtimelôdtune (1923?)
Country Band March (1905?, rev. 1914, inc.)
Quarter-Tone Chorale for Strings (1914, lost)^[1]
The General Slocum (1910?, inc.)
The Gong on the Hook and Ladder (1911)
Piece for Small Orchestra and Organ (1905?, mostly lost)
The Pond (1906, rev. 1913)
Postlude in F (1899?)
Three Ragtime Dances (1911, mostly lost)
Four Ragtime Dances (?)
Nine Ragtime Pieces (1902?, mostly lost)
The Rainbow (1914)
Skit for Danbury Fair (1909, inc.)
Take-Off No. 7: Mike Donlin-Johnny Evers (1907, inc.)
Take-Off No. 8: Willy Keeler at Bat (1907, inc.)
Tone Roads et al. (1915?)
The Unanswered Question (1908, rev. 1935)
Yale-Princeton Football Game (1899, inc.)

Band

Fantasia on Jerusalem the Golden (1888)
March in F and C, with Omega Lambda Chi (1896)
March Intercollegiate, with Annie Lisle (1892)
Runaway Horse on Main Street (1908, inc.)
Schoolboy March in D and F, Op. 1 (1886, mostly lost)
Country Band March

Chamber/Instrumental

String quartet

String Quartet No. 1: From the Salvation Army (1900)
String Quartet No. 2 (1913)

Violin sonata

Pre-First Sonata for Violin and Piano (1913)
Violin Sonata No. 1 (1917?)
Violin Sonata No. 2 (1917?)
Violin Sonata No. 3 (1914?)
Violin Sonata No. 4: Children's Day at the Camp Meeting (1916)

Other

Decoration Day (1919)
From the Steeples and the Mountains (1901)
Fugue in B-flat (1895?, inc.)
Fugue in D (1895?, mostly lost)
Fugue in Four Greek Modes (1897, inc.)
Fugue in Four Keys on The Shining Shore (1903?, inc.)
Hallowe'en (1914)
In Re Con Moto et al. (1916)
Largo for Violin and Piano (1901)
Largo for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano (1934? arrangement of Largo for violin and piano)
Largo Risoluto No. 1 (1909)
Largo Risoluto No. 2 (1910)
An Old Song Deranged (1903)
Piece in G for String Quartet (1891?)
Polonaise (1887, inc.)
Practice for String Quartet in Holding Your Own! (1903)
Prelude on Eventide (1908)
Scherzo: All the Way Around and Back (1908)
Scherzo: Over the Pavements (1910)
Scherzo for String Quartet (1904)
A Set of Three Short Pieces (1935?)
Take-Off No. 3: Rube Trying to Walk 2 to 3!! (1909)
Trio for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano (1907, rev. 1915)

Keyboard

Variations on "America", for organ (1891) (arranged for orchestra by William Schuman and also arranged for piano solo by Lowell Liebermann)
Three Page Sonata (1905)
Piano Sonata No. 1 (1909)
Piano Sonata No. 2 (Concord) (1915)
Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for Two Pianos (1924)
27 Studies for piano, 8 lost ^[2] ^[3] ^[4]
- Study No. 1: Allegro (incomplete)
- Study No. 2: Andante moderato-Allegro molto (Varied Air and Variations)
- Study No. 3: (lost)
- Study No. 4: Allegro moderato (incomplete)
- Study No. 5: Moderato con anima
- Study No. 6: Andante (1907-1909)
- Study No. 7: Andante cantabile (1907)
- Study No. 8: Trio (Allegro moderato-Presto) (1907)
- Study No. 9: The Anti-Abolitionist Riots in the 1830's and 1840's
- Study No. 10 (mostly lost)
- Study No. 11: Andante (incomplete)
- Study No. 12: (lost)
- Study No. 13: (lost)
- Study No. 14: (lost)
- Study No. 15: Allegro moderato (incomplete) (1907-1909; 1920s)
- Study No. 16: Andante cantabile (incomplete) (1907-1909; 1920s)
- Study No. 17: (lost)
- Study No. 18: Sunrise Cadenza (Adagio) (incomplete)
- Study No. 19 (incomplete) (1907-1909; 1920s)
- Study No. 20: March (Slow allegro or Fast andante) (1910, 1920s)
- Study No. 21: Some Southpaw Pitching (1918-19)
- Study No. 22: Andante maestoso-Allegro vivace (1909)
- Study No. 23: Allegro (1912-1914; 1920s)
- Study No. 24: (lost)
- Study No. 25: (lost)
- Study No. 26: (lost)
- Study No. 27: Chromâtimelôdtune (incomplete)

Vocal

Songs

Ives' songs first appeared in three collections:

114 Songs (1922)

1. Majority
2. Evening
3. The Last Reader
4. At Sea
5. Immortality
6. The New River
7. Disclosure
8. The Rainbow
9. (a) Duty (b) Vita
10. Charlie Rutlage
11. Lincoln The Great Commoner
12. Remembrance
13. Resolution
14. The Indians
15. The Housatonic at Stockbridge
16. Religion
17. Grantchester
18. Incantation
19. The Greatest Man
20. Hymn
21. Luck and Work
22. "Nov. 2, 1920"
23. Maple Leaves
24. Premonitions
25. Ann Street
26. Like a Sick Eagle
27. The Swimmers
28. On the Counter
29. The See'r
30. From "Paracelsus"
31. Walt Whitman
32. The Side-Show
33. Cradle-Song
34. La Fede
35. August
36. September
37. December
38. The Collection
39. Afterglow
40. The Innate,
41. "123"
42. Serenity
43. The Things Our Fathers Loved
44. Watchman
45. At The River
46. His Exaltation
47. The Camp-Meeting
48. Thoreau
49. In Flanders Fields
50. He is There!
51. Tom Sails Away
52. Old Home Days
53. In the Alley
54. A Song of a Gambolier
55. Down East
56. The Circus Band
57. Mists
58. Evidence
59. Tolerance
60. Autumn
61. Nature's Way
62. The Waiting Soul
63. Those Evening Bells
64. The Cage
65. Spring Song
66. The Light that is Felt
67. Walking
68. Ilmenau (Over All the Treetops)
69. Rough Wind
70. Mirage
71. There is a Lane love
72. Tarrant Moss
73. Harpalus
74. The Children's Hour
75. I Travelled Among Unknown Men
76. Qu'il M'irait bien
77. Elegie
78. Chanson de Florian
79. Rosamunde
80. Weil' auf mir
81. The Old Mother
82. In Summerfields
83. Ich Grolle Nicht
84. Night of Frost in May (From)
85. Dreams
86. Omens and Oracles
87. An old Flame
88. A Night Song
89. A Song - For Anything
90. The World's Highway
91. Karen
92. Marie
93. Berceuse
94. Where the Eagle
95. Allegro
96. Romanzo (di Central Park)
97. The South Wind
98. Naught that Country
99. Forward into the Light
100. A Christmas Carol
101. My Native Land
102. Memories: (a) Very Pleasant (b) Rather Sad
103. The White Gulls (From the Russian)
104. Two Little Flowers
105. West London (A Sonnet)
106. Amphion
107. A Night Thought
108. Songs My Mother Taught Me
109. Waltz
110. The World's Wanderers
111. Canon
112. To Edith
113. When Stars Are in the Quit Skies
114. Slow March

19 Songs (1935)

(a special issue of Henry Cowell's New Music Quarterly)

The numerous misprints of these editions are addressed in 129 Songs edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock. Additional works in critical editions are contained in:

Forty Earlier Songs (1993)

"Song for Harvest Season" (1893)^[5]
"Songs my Mother taught me" (1895^[6])^[5]
Hymn (1904)^[5]

Songs that were orchestrated

General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (based on a poem by the same name written by Vachel Lindsay)

Cantatas

The Celestial Country (1902)
Silence Accompanied (1920)

Choral Psalms

Psalm 14 (1902, 1912–13)
Psalm 24 (1901, 1912–13)
Psalm 25 (1901, 1912–13)
Psalm 42 (1891–92)
Psalm 54 (1902)
Psalm 67 (1898–99)
Psalm 90 (1923–24)
Psalm 100 (1902)
Psalm 135 (1902, 1912–13)
Psalm 150 (1898–99)

References

↑ Read Gardner: 20th-Century Microtonal Notation (New York, Greenwood Press, 1990) p. 76
↑ http://www.charlesives.org/10workslist.htm
↑ http://www.newworldrecords.org/linernotes/nwcr811.pdf
↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=_HJcslCuesAC&lpg=PA287&ots=JhdRhmJ-4U&dq=ives%20study%20number%202&pg=PA287#v=onepage&q=ives%20study%20number%202&f=false
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Philip Lambert: The Music of Charles Ives (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1997) p. 210
↑ surely #108 above?

James B. Sinclair: A descriptive catalogue of the music of Charles Ives (Yale University Press, 1999)