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"A sound of a distant horn O'er shadowed lake is borne my father's song."Charles Ives Charles Ives, perhaps the quintessential American composer of the twentieth century, drew on his childhood experiences in a small New England town in his music. Through his close relationship with his father, George, a Civil War bandmaster, Ives developed a powerful feeling for nineteenth-century rural America. This bookthe first full-scale psychoanalytic biography of a major composerexamines the lives of the two men and shows how a knowledge of their relationship as father and son, teacher and pupil, is central to an understanding of Ivess work. Stuart Feder, a psychoanalyst with training in musicology, demonstrates that George exerted so pervasive an influence on Charless creative life that Ivess music may be seen as the result of an unconscious fantasy of posthumous collaboration between father and son. The music bears Georges mark, not only in its incorporation of hymn tunes, parlor ballads, Civil War marches, and other homely sources that derived from his youth, but also in its use of technical musical devices attributed to George. Moreover, the span of Ivess creative life reveals another con

Author

Stuart Feder

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300054811

Subjects

Music, Biography, Literary Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14