A collection of essays on the life and music of American composer Charles Ives.

Preface; Bibliographical notes; Part I. Tradition, Revision and Chronology: 1. 'The Things our Fathers Loved': Charles Ives and the European tradition Robert P. Morgan; 2. Remembrance of dissonances past: the two published editions of Ives's Concord Sonata Geoffrey Block; 3. Editing Ives's 129 Songs H. Wiley Hitchcock; 4. Redating Ives's choral sources Gayle Sherwood; Part II. Historical and Biographical Contexts: 5. The idea of potentiality in the music of Charles Ives Wolfgang Rathert; 6. Charles Ives and the politics of direct democracy Judith Tick; 7. Charles Ives and Henry David Thoreau: 'a transcendental tune of Concord' Stuart Feder; Part III. The Universe Symphony: 8. The realization and first complete performance of Ives's Universe Symphony Larry Austin; 9. Ives's Universe Philip Lambert; Part IV. Envoi: 10. Ives today J. Peter Burkholder; Index.