Canon
Where to start with Ives
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
OrchestralCentral Park in the Dark
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KeyboardPiano Sonata no. 2, "Concord"
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ChamberString Quartet no. 2
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Vocal1, 2, 3
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OrchestralSymphony no. 2
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OrchestralThe Unanswered Question, for trumpet, winds, and string orchestra
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OrchestralA Symphony: New England Holidays
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OrchestralOrchestral Set no. 1: 3 Places in New England
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OrchestralSymphony no. 4
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Keyboard'Adeste Fideles' in an Organ Prelude
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Keyboard3 Quarter-Tone Pieces, for 2 pianos
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Keyboard3-Page Sonata
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VocalA Christmas Carol
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VocalA Christmas Carol
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VocalA Farewell to Land
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Ives's catalogueMost Popular
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The Unanswered Question
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Three Places in New England
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Symphony No. 2
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Variations on America (organ)
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Songs — At the River
Most Acclaimed
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Piano Sonata No. 2 ”Concord”
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Central Park in the Dark
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String Quartet No. 2
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Symphony No. 4
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Three-Quarter Tone Pieces for two pianos
Most Weird
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Piano Sonata No. 2 ”Concord”each movement a Transcendentalist (Emerson, Hawthorne, The Alcotts, Thoreau); Thoreau ends with solo flute — silence before and after
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Central Park in the Darktwo orchestras play simultaneously, completely ignoring each other — one representing night silence, one the saloon noise
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Universe Symphonyunfinished — would have required orchestras placed on hills around the audience; never completed
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The Majority (song)the first note lasts 7 full beats — no other song begins this way
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Symphony No. 4the second movement requires two conductors and has passages where three separate tempos occur simultaneously
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 282
- Orchestral
- ● Central Park in the Dark
- ● Symphony no. 2
- ● The Unanswered Question, for trumpet, winds, and string orchestra
- A Symphony: New England Holidays
- Orchestral Set no. 1: 3 Places in New England
- Symphony no. 4
- Charlie Rutlage, for orchestra and optional voice
- Country Band March, for theater orchestra
- Emerson Overture, for piano and orchestra
- Fantasia on 'Jerusalem the Golden', for band
- March 'Intercollegiate' with 'Annie Lisle', for band
- March in F and C with 'Omega Lambda Chi', for band
- March no. 2 with 'Son of a Gambolier', for band
- March: The Circus Band, for orchestra and optional chorus
- Old Home Days, 5 suites for band
- Orchestral Set no. 2
- Orchestral Set no. 3
- Overture and March: '1776', for theater orchestra
- Overture in G minor
- Postlude in F major
- Robert Browning Overture
- Runaway Horse on Main Street, take-off for band
- Symphony no. 1 in D minor
- Symphony no. 3: The Camp Meeting
- The General Slocum
- The Gong on the Hook and Ladder or Firemen's Parade on Main Street
- The Pond
- Universe Symphony, for large orchestra divided in to smaller ensembles and percussion
- Yale-Princeton Football Game
- Keyboard
- ● Piano Sonata no. 2, "Concord"
- 'Adeste Fideles' in an Organ Prelude
- 3 Quarter-Tone Pieces, for 2 pianos
- 3-Page Sonata
- Allegretto: Invention
- Anthem: Processional
- Bad Resolutions and Good
- Baseball Take-Off
- Emerson
- Emerson
- Fugue in C minor, for organ
- Fugue in E flat major, for organ
- March no. 6 with 'Here's to Good Old Yale', for piano
- Piano Sonata no. 1
- Rough and Ready
- Scene Episode
- Set of Five Take-Offs, for piano
- Sonata no. 1
- Song Without Words
- Storm and Distress
- Study no. 15
- Study no. 18
- Study no. 20: March
- Study no. 21: Some Southpaw Pitching, etude for piano
- Study no. 22: Andante maestoso. Allegro vivace, etude for piano
- Study no. 23: Allegro, etude
- Study no. 2: Andante moderato-Allegro molto, etude for piano
- Study no. 5
- Study no. 6
- Study no. 7
- Study no. 8
- Study no. 9: The Anti-Abolitionist Riots in the 1830s and 1840s, for piano
- The Alcotts
- The Celestial Railroad, take off for piano
- The Seen and Unseen
- Three-Page Sonata, for piano
- Variations on 'America,' for organ
- Varied Air and Variations, for piano
- Waltz-Rondo
- Waltz: Rondo
- Chamber
- String Quartet no. 2
- A Set of 3 Short Pieces, for string quartet, double bass, and piano
- Chamber Set no. 4
- From the Steeples and the Mountains, for 1 or 2 trumpets, trombone, 4 sets of bells and 2 pianos
- Hallowe'en, for string quartet, piano and optional drum
- In Re Con Moto et al., for string quartet, piano and optional drum
- Largo, for violin, clarinet and piano
- Piano Trio
- Scherzo, for string quartet
- Scherzo: Holding Your Own, for string quartet
- String Quartet no. 1: From the Salvation Army
- The Gong on the Hook and Ladder or Firemen's Parade on Main Street, for strings, piano and optional bell
- Tone Roads, for chamber orchestra, op. 49
- Trio, for violin, cello and piano
- Violin Sonata no. 1
- Violin Sonata no. 2
- Violin Sonata no. 3
- Violin Sonata no. 4: Children's Day At the Camp Meeting
- Vocal
- 1, 2, 3
- A Christmas Carol
- A Christmas Carol
- A Farewell to Land
- A Night Song
- A Night Thought
- A Perfect Day
- A Scotch Lullaby
- A Sea Dirge
- A Son of A Gambolier
- A Song - For Anything
- Abide with me
- Aeschylus and Sophocles
- Allegro
- Amphion
- An Old Flame
- Ann Street
- At Parting
- At Sea
- At the River
- August
- Autumn
- Because Thou Art
- Because of You
- Berceuse
- Canon: Not only in my lady's eyes
- Canon: Oh! the days are gone, when beauty bright
- Chanson de Florian
- Charlie Rutlage
- Country Celestial
- Cradle Song
- Crossing the Bar, for chorus and organ
- December
- Die Lotosblume
- Disclosure
- Down East
- Dreams
- Du alte Mutter
- Du bist wie eine Blume
- Ein Ton
- Election
- Evening
- Evidence
- Far from my heav'nly home
- Far in the wood
- Feldeinsamkeit
- Flag Song
- Forward into Light
- Friendship
- Frühlingslied
- General William Booth Enters into Heaven
- General William Booth Enters into Heaven, for chorus, optional solo voice, chamber orchestra and percussion
- God Bless and Keep Thee
- Grace
- Grantchester
- Gruss
- Harpalus
- He Is There!
- Her Eyes
- Her gown was of vermilion silk
- His Exaltation
- Hymn
- Hymn of Trust
- I knew and loved a maid
- Ich grolle nicht
- Ilmenau
- Immortality
- In April-tide
- In Autumn
- In Flanders Fields
- In My Beloved's Eyes
- In the Alley
- Kären
- La Fede
- Like a Sick Eagle
- Lincoln, the Great Commoner
- Lincoln, the Great Commoner, for chorus and orchestra
- Lord God, They Sea Is Mighty, anthem for chorus and organ
- Luck and Work
- Majority
- Maple Leaves
- Marie
- Marie
- Memories
- Minnelied
- Mirage
- Mists
- My Lou Jennine
- My Native Land
- My Native Land
- Nature's Way
- Naught that country needeth,
- Night of Frost in May
- No More
- Nov. 2, 1920
- Old Home Day
- Omens and Oracles
- On Judges' Walk
- On the Antipodes, for voice and 2 pianos
- On the Counter
- Paracelsus
- Peaks
- Pictures
- Premonitions
- Processional: Let There Be Light, for chorus and organ
- Psalm 100, for double chorus
- Psalm 135, for chorus, brass, organ and percussion
- Psalm 14, for double chorus
- Psalm 150, for female chorus, chorus and optional organ
- Psalm 24
- Psalm 25, for chorus and organ
- Psalm 42, for solo voice, chorus and organ
- Psalm 54
- Psalm 67
- Psalm 90, for chorus, bells, and organ
- Qu'il m'irait bien
- Religion
- Remembrance
- Requiem
- Resolution
- Rock of Ages
- Romanzo
- Rosenzweige
- Rough Wind
- Sehnsucht
- September
- Serenity
- Serenity, for chorus, harps and violins and timpani
- She is Not Fair to Outward View
- Slow March
- Slugging a Vampire
- Soliloquy — Song
- Song for Harvest Season, for voice and brass ensemble
- Songs My Mother Taught Me
- South Wind
- Spring Song
- Sunrise, for voice, piano and violin
- Swimmers
- Tarrant Moss
- The All-Enduring
- The Cage
- The Camp Meeting
- The Children's Hour
- The Circus Band
- The Collection
- The Ending Year
- The Greatest Man
- The Housatonic at Stockbridge
- The Incantation
- The Indians
- The Innate
- The Last Reader
- The Light That is felt
- The Love Song of Har Dyal
- The New River
- The Old Mother
- The One Way
- The Only Son
- The Rainbow
- The Sea of Sleep
- The See'r
- The Side Show
- The Song of the Dead
- The Things Our Fathers Loved
- The Waiting Soul
- The White Gulls
- The World's Highway
- The World's Wanderers
- There is a Certain Garden
- There is a Lane
- They Are There!
- They Are There!, for chorus and orchestra
- Thoreau
- Those Evening Bells
- Through Night and Day
- To Edith
- Tolerance
- Tom Sails Away
- Two Little Flowers
- Two Slants
- Vote for Names, for voice and 3 pianos
- Walking
- Walt Whitman
- Waltz
- Watchman
- Weil' auf mir
- West London
- When Stars are in the Quiet Skies
- Where the Eagle Cannot See
- Widmung
- Wie Melodien zieht es mir
- Wiegenlied
- William Will
- Yellow Leaves
- Élégie