Essays Before a Sonata (Ives, Charles)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	6
First Publication	1920 by New York: The Knickerbocker Press
Genre Categories	Music history; Writings; English language

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*#96225 - 4.58MB, 144 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/C - 5391×⇩ - Schissel

Publisher. Info.	New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1920.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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Work Title	Essays Before a Sonata
Alternative. Title
Composer	Ives, Charles
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	ICI 2
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	6
First Publication.	1920 by New York: The Knickerbocker Press
Copyright Information	Possibly public domain in EU and elsewhere. This item, which is in the public domain in its country of origin, is likewise in the public domain in countries which apply the rule of the shorter term. All EU countries apply the rule of the shorter term in general. Note that in some cases this rule may be overridden by a treaty with the source country (especially the United States) and/or may not apply to works which fell into the public domain in their source country due to a failure to renew copyright or comply with other formalities.
Language	English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Early 20th century
Piece Style	Early 20th century
Instrumentation	Book.

"Written primarily as a preface or reason for the second pianoforte sonata-Concord, Mass., 1845" - from the description at archive.org.
(Would tag as autobiographies but seems not quite on-target. Preface? - Schissel)
Though it had a definite connection to the second piano sonata, Grove Music describes this as "his most detailed statement of his aesthetics", so it has a far more general subject matter. Aesthetics doesn't easily fall into the music theory category, so I've tagged it as music history. (Steltz)