Ives as a teenager

The compositions of American composer Charles Ives (1874–1954) are mostly modern classical music. Ives was prolific, revised works multiple times, and left ambiguous fragments with no title or notes. A chronology of works is especially difficult because of missing and sometimes misleading dates;[1] as Elliott Carter put it in 1939: "[Ives] has rewritten his works so many times, adding dissonances and polyrhythms, that it is impossible to tell just at what date the works assumed the surprising form we know now."[2]

This list follows James B. Sinclair's A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives.[3] It does not include fragments or projected works.

Orchestra

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Symphonies

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Sets

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For orchestra
For chamber orchestra

Overtures

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Marches

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Others

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Band

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Chamber/Instrumental

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String quartet
Violin sonata
Other

Keyboard

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Works for piano

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Sonatas

Studies

Marches

Other works

Two pianos

Works for organ

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Vocal

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Songs

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Title (Incipit) in 114 Songs Collections Words Comments
Abide with me
Aeschylus and Sophocles 19 Songs
Afterglow At the quite close 39 James Fenimore Cooper Jr.
Allegro By morning's brightest beam 95 H. or Ch. Ives
The All-Enduring
Amphion (from "Amphion") The mountain stirred 106 Tennyson
Ann Street Quaint name… 25 Maurice Morris
At Parting
At Sea Some things are undivined 4 R. U. Johnson
At the River Shall we gather Robert Lowry arr. from Violin Sonata 4
Atalanta
August For August, be your dwelling 35 D. G. Rossetti, after San Geminiano
Autumn [II] Earth rests 60 H. or Ch. Ives
Because of You
Because Thou Art
Berceuse O're the mountain 93 H. or Ch. Ives
The Cage A leopard went around 64 H. or Ch. Ives
The Camp Meeting Across the summer meadows 47 Charlotte Elliot from Symphony No. 3
Canon [I] Oh, the days are gone 111 19 Songs Moore
Canon [II]
Chanson de Florian Ah! s'il est dans votre village 78 Claris de Florian
Charlie Rutlage Another good cowpuncher 10 Cowboy Songs
The Children's Hour, from Between the dark 74 Longfellow
A Christmas Carol Little town of Bethlehem 100 19 Songs "traditional"
The Circus Band All summer long 56 H. or Ch. Ives
The Collection Now help us, Lord 38 "stanzas from old hymns"
The Coming of the Day
Country Celestial
Cradle Song Hush thee 33 19 Songs A. L. Ives
December Last, for December 37 D. G. Rossetti, after San Geminiano
Disclosure Thoughts, which deeply rest 7 Ch. or H. Ives
Down East Songs! Visions of my home 55 Ives
Dream Sweetly
Dreams When twilight comes 85 Porteous[9] German version?
Du alte Mutter / My dear old mother
Du bist wie eine Blume Heinrich Heine
Ein Ton / I hear a tone
Elégie O doux printemps 77 Gallet
The Ending Year
Evening Now came still Evening 2 Milton
Evidence There comes o're the valley 58 Ives
Far from my heav'nly home
Far in the wood
A Farewell to Land 19 Songs
La Fède La fede mai non debe 34 19 Songs Ariosto
Feldeinsamkeit / In Summer Fields Ich ruhe still / Quite still I lie 82 19 Songs Allmers (tr. Chapman)
Flag Song
Forward into Light 99 Alford after St Bernard from "The Celestial Country"
Friendship
Frühlingslied
General William Booth Enters into Heaven Booth led boldly 19 Songs Vachel Lindsay
God Bless and Keep Thee
Grace
Grantchester would I were in Grantchester 17 Rupert Brooke
The Greatest Man My teacher said 19 Anne Timoney Collins[10]
Gruss
Harpalus (An Ancient Pastoral) Oh, Harpalus! 73 Thomas Percy
He Is There! Fifteen years ago 50 Ives also a WW2 sequel
Her Eyes
Her gown was of vermilion silk
His Exaltation For the grandeur 46 Robert Robinson from Violin Sonata No. 2
The Housatonic at Stockbridge Contented river! 15 R. U. Johnson
Hymn Thou hidden love 20 James George Walton after Tersteegen quoted by O. W. Holmes
Hymn of Trust
I knew and loved a maid
I travelled among unknown men I travelled among unknown men 75 Wordsworth
Ich grolle nicht / I'll not complain 83 Heine w/o English in 114
Ilmenau / Over all the treetops Über allen Gipfeln/Over all the hilltops 68 Goethe (tr. Harmony Twitchell Ives)
Immortality Who dares to say 5
In a mountain spring
In April-tide
In Autumn
In Flanders Fields In Flanders Fields 49 McCrae
In My Beloved's Eyes
In the Alley On my way to work 53 Ives
from the "Incantation" When the moon 18 Byron
Incomplete song [I]
Incomplete song [II]
The Indians Alas! for them 14 Charles Sprague
The Innate Voices live in every finite being 40 19 Songs Ives
Kären Do'st remember child! 91 unknown
The Last Reader I sometimes sit 3 O. W. Holmes
The Light That Is Felt A tender child 66 Whittier
Like a Sick Eagle The spirit is too weak 26 Keats
Lincoln, the Great Commoner And so he came 11 Edwin Markham
Longing
Die Lotosblume / The Lotus Flower Die Lotosblume ängstigt Heine see The South wind
The Love Song of Har Dyal
Luck and Work While one will search 21 R. U. Johnson
Majority The Masses 1 19 Songs Ch. Ives
Maple Leaves October turned my maple's leaves 23 Th. B. Aldrich
Marie Marie, I see thee 92 Gottschall
Memories: a. Very Pleasant; b. Rather Sad We're sitting in the opera house/ From the street a strain 102
Minnelied
Mirage The hope I dreamed of 70 Ives
Mists [I] Low lie the mists 57 Ives
Mists [II]
My Lou Jennine
My Native Land [I] My Native Land now meets my eye 101 Traditional
My Native Land [II] Farewell to land?
My Task
Nature's Way When the distant evening 61 Ives
Naught that country needeth 98 Alford after St Bernard from "The Celestial Country"
The New River Down the river 6 Ch. or H. Ives
Night of Frost in May (from) There was the lyre of earth 84 Meredith
A Night Song The young May moon 88 Moore
A Night Thought How oft a cloud 107 Moore
No More
Nov. 2, 1920 (An Election) It strikes me that 22 19 Songs (An Election) Ch. Ives?
An Old Flame When dreams enfold me 87 Ives
Old Home Day Go my songs! 52 Ives
The Old Mother/ Du alte Mutter Du alte Mutter/My dear old mother 81 Cordier, after Vinje set by Grieg "Du gamle Mor!"
Omens and Oracles Phantoms of the future 86 'unknown' [ Robert Bulwer-Lytton ]
On Judges' Walk
On the Antipodes 19 Songs 2 pianos & organ pedal
On the Counter Tunes we heard 28 Ch. Ives?
"1, 2, 3"
The One Way
The Only Son
Paracelsus (from) For God is glorified 30 19 Songs Browning from latter part of sc. v
Peaks
A Perfect Day
Pictures
Premonitions There's a shadow 24 R. U. Johnson
Qu'il m'irait bien Qu'il m'irait bien 76 Moreau Delano
The Rainbow (So May It Be!) My heart leaps up 8 Wordsworth
Religion There is no unbelief. 16 James T. Bixby
Remembrance The sound of a distant horn 12 Ch. Ives untitled in 114; "The Pond" in orchestral version
Requiem 19 Songs
Resolution Walking stronger 13 19 Songs Ch. or H. Ives
Rock of Ages
Romanzo (di Central Park) Grove, Rove, Night, Delight 96 parody, attr. Leigh Hunt
Rosamunde (De la drama:) J'attends, helas! 79 Bélanger
Rosenzweige
Rough Wind Rough wind that moanest loud 69 Shelley
Runaway Horse on Main Street
A Scotch Lullaby
A Sea Dirge
The Sea of Sleep
The See'r An old man 29 Ch.Ives?
Sehnsucht
September And in September 36 D. G. Rossetti, after San Geminiano
Serenity O Sabbath rest of [sic] 42 Whittier
The Side Show Is that Mister Riley 32 Ives
Slow March (Inscribed to the Children's Faithful Friend) One evening just at sunset 114 H. or Ch. Ives after the dead march in Saul
Slugging a Vampire 19 Songs Ives see Tarrant Moss, replaced for copyright reasons
Smoke
Soliloquy
A Son of a Gambolier Come join my humble ditty 54 Ives?
Song
A Song—For Anything: a. When the waves softly sigh; b. Yale, Farewell!; c. Hear My Prayer, O Lord 89
Song for Harvest Season
The Song of the Dead [lost]
Song without words [I]
Song without words [II]
Song without words [III]
Songs my Mother Taught Me 108 Heyduk 'tr. adapted'
The South Wind / Die Lotosblume When gently blows 97 Ives, substituting Heine
Spring Song Across the hill of late 65 Ives
The Sun shines hot
Sunrise
Swimmers (from the) Then the swift plunge 27 Louis Untermeyer
Tarrant Moss I closed and drew 72 Kipling see Sluggin a Vampire
Thee I Love
There is a certain garden
There is a lane There is a lane 71 Ives
They Are There! [ja] There's a time in many a life C.Ives revised version of He is there! in 1917
The Things Our Fathers Loved I think there must 43 Ives
Thoreau He grew in those seasons 48 from Piano Sonata 2
Those Evening Bells Those Evening Bells! 63 Moore
Through Night and Day
To Edith So like a flower 112 Ives new words?
Tolerance How can I turn 59 Pres. Hadley (actually Kipling[11])
Tom Sails Away Scenes from my childhood 51 19 Songs Ives
Two Little Flowers On sunny days in our backyard 104 19 Songs H. or Ch. Ives
Two Slants (Christian and Pagan): a. Duty; b. Vita 9 a&b
Vote for Names! Names! Names!
The Waiting Soul Breathe from the gentle South 62 Cowper [??]
Walking A big October morning 67 Ives
Walt Whitman Who goes there? 31 Walt Whitman from LoG stanza 20
Waltz Round and round 109 Ives
Watchman! Watchman, tell us 44 John Bowring from Violin Sonata 2
Watchman! [II]
Weil' auf mir / Eyes so dark Weil auf mir/Eyes so dark 80 Lenau/Westbrook
West London Crouch'd on the pavement 105 Matthew Arnold
When stars are in the quiet skies When stars are in the quiet skies 113 Bulwer-Lytton
Where the eagle cannot see 94 Monica Peveril Turnbull
The White Gulls (from the Russian) The White Gulls dip and wheel 103 Maurice Morris
Who knows the light
Widmung
Wie Melodien zieht es mir
Wiegenlied
William Will
The World's Highway For long I wander'd happily 90 H. or Ch. Ives
The World's Wanderers Tell me, star 110 Shelley
Yellow Leaves

Choral works

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Multi-movement sacred works

Psalms

Other sacred works

Secular chorus with instrumental ensemble

Partsongs

Ballets to the music of Charles Ives

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References

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  1. ^ Maynard Solomon goes so far as to suggest Ives purposely misdated work in: "Charles Ives: Some Questions of Veracity", Journal of the American Musicological Society, XL/iii (1987), 443–470, goes so far as to suggest Ives did so purposely. Some responses are Carol Baron, "Dating Charles Ives's Music: Facts and Fictions", Perspectives of New Music, XXVIII (1990), 20–56; Gayle Sherwood, "Questions and Veracities: Reassessing the Chronology of Ives's Choral Works", The Musical Quarterly, LXXVIII/iii (1994), 429–447
  2. ^ Carter, Elliott, "The Case of Mr. Ives", Modern Music (March–April 1939): 172–176.
  3. ^ Sinclair, James B. (1999). A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300076011.
  4. ^ Gardner Read: 20th-Century Microtonal Notation (New York, Greenwood Press, 1990) p. 76
  5. ^ "Evenings for New Music, Tuesday February 22, 1966". www.carnegiehall.org. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  6. ^ "Charles Ives: List of Compositions". Archived from the original on 22 February 2015. Retrieved 2015-02-15.
  7. ^ "The Unknown Ives liner notes" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 2015-02-15.
  8. ^ Henderson, Clayton W. (2008). The Charles Ives Tunebook. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253350909.
  9. ^ Anton Strelezki after 'Baroness Porteous'?
  10. ^ "The Woman behind 'The Greatest Man'" by Kyle Gann, October 22, 2011, kylegann.com
  11. ^ Ives, who had difficulties with Kipling's executors, identifies the text as a quotation from a lecture. The lines within the quote however originate in Kipling's The Fire
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