List of compositions by Charles Ives

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

Symphonies

Sets

For orchestra
For chamber orchestra
  • Set No. 1 (1912); includes Calcium Light Night
  • Set No. 2 (1912); includes Gyp the Blood, or Hearst? Which Is Worst?
  • Set No. 3 (At Sea – Luck and Work – Premonitions, 1917)
  • Set No. 4, Three Poets and Human Nature – projected only
  • Set No. 5, The Other Side of Pioneering, or Side Lights on American Enterprise – projected only
  • Set No. 6, From the Side Hill – projected only
  • Set No. 7, Water Colors – projected or lost
  • Set No. 8, Songs Without Voices – projected only
  • Set No. 9 of Three Pieces (The Last Reader – The See'r – The Unanswered Question, 1934)
  • Set No. 10 of Three Pieces (Like a Sick Eagle – Luck and Work – The Indians, 1934)
  • 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)
  • Country Band March ((Sketched 1903), rev. 1912, inc. – used in "Putnam's Camp")
  • 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

  • Hymn: Largo cantabile, from A Set of Three Short Pieces (1904)
  • Central Park in the Dark (1906, rev. 1936)
  • Chromâtimelôdtune (1913-1919)
  • Quarter-Tone Chorale for Strings (1914, lost)[4]
  • The General Slocum (1910?, inc.)
  • The Gong on the Hook and Ladder or Firemen's Parade on Main Street (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)

Chamber/Instrumental

String quartet
Violin sonata
  • Pre-First Sonata for Violin and Piano (1913)
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 (1903-1908)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 (1917?)
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 (1905-1914)
  • 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.)
  • Hymn: Largo cantabile, from A Set of Three Short Pieces (1904)
  • Hallowe'en (1914)
  • In Re Con Moto et al. (1916), for violin, viola, bass, and piano, world premiere given in February 1966 at Carnegie Hall[5]
  • 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

Works for piano

Sonatas

Studies

  • 27 Studies for piano, 8 lost[6][7][8]
    • 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 1830s and 1840s
    • 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)

Marches

  • March No. 1 for Piano, with "Year of Jubilee" (c. 1894–95)
  • March No. 2 for Piano, with "Son of a Gambolier" [inc.] (1895)
  • March No. 3 for Piano, with "Omega Lambda Chi" (c. 1895–96)
  • March No. 5 for Piano, with "Annie Lisle" (c. 1895)
  • March No. 6 for Piano, with "Here's to Good Old Yale" (c. 1895–96)
  • March in G and C for Piano, with "See the Conquering Hero Comes" (1896–7)
  • March for Piano: The Circus Band (c. 1898–99)

Other works

  • The Celestial Railroad (c. 1922–25)
  • Three Improvisations (1938)
  • Invention in D (c. 1898)
  • Minuetto, Op. 4 (1886)
  • New Year's Dance (1887)
  • Piece in G Minor
  • Set of Five Take-Offs (c. 1909)
  • Four Transcriptions from "Emerson" (c. 1923–27)
  • Varied Air and Variations (1920–22)
  • Waltz–Rondo (1911)

Two pianos

  • Burlesque Storm
  • Drum Corps or Scuffle [mostly lost]
  • Three Quarter-Tone Pieces
  • Ragtime Dances for Two Pianos

Works for organ

  • Adagio in F
  • "Adeste Fideles" in an Organ Prelude (c. 1903)
  • Burlesque Postlude in B
  • Burlesque Postlude in C
  • Canzonetta in F (c. 1893–94)
  • Fugue in C Minor (c. 1898)
  • Fugue in E (c. 1898)
  • Interludes for Hymns (1898–1901)
  • Melody in E
  • Postlude for Thanksgiving Service [mostly lost]
  • Variations on "America", for organ (1891) (arranged for orchestra by William Schuman and also arranged for piano solo by Lowell Liebermann)
  • Voluntary in C Minor
  • Voluntary in F

Vocal

Songs

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

Multi-movement sacred works

  • The Celestial Country (1898–1902)
  • Communion Service (c. 1894)
  • Three Harvest Home Chorales (c. 1902, c. 1912–15)

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)

Other sacred works

  • All-Forgiving, look on me
  • Anthem: With Hearts Rejoicing Ever
  • Be Thou, O God, Exalted High
  • Benedictus in E
  • Benedictus in G
  • Bread of the World
  • Nine Canticle Phrases
  • Chant, Op. 2, No. 2
  • Crossing the Bar
  • Easter Anthem
  • Easter Carol
  • Gloria in excelsis
  • Hymn, Op. 2, No. 1
  • I Come to Thee
  • I Think of Thee, My God
  • Kyrie
  • Life of the World
  • The Light That Is Felt
  • Lord God, Thy Sea Is Mighty
  • O God, My Heart Is Fixed
  • Processsional: Let There Be Light
  • Serenity [mostly lost]
  • Turn Ye, Turn Ye

Secular chorus with instrumental ensemble

  • December
  • An Election
  • General William Booth Enters into Heaven
  • He Is There!
  • Johnny Poe
  • Lincoln, the Great Commoner
  • The Masses (Majority)
  • The New River
  • Sneak Thief
  • They Are There! (A War Song March)
  • Two Slants (Christian and Pagan)
  • Walt Whitman

Partsongs

  • Age of Gold
  • The Bells of Yale
  • The Boys in Blue
  • For You and Me!
  • My Sweet Jeanette
  • O Maiden Fair
  • Partsong in A
  • Partsong in B
  • Partsong in E
  • Serenade
  • A Song of Mory's
  • The Year's at the Spring

Ballets to the music of Charles Ives

References

  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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