Groves: Ives
Music in the Western World: pp. 423-426

Use the questions to guide your note-taking. Do not quote verbatim from the book without putting quotes around it. When taking the quiz, try to paraphrase as much as possible, but if you have to use something verbatim, use quotation marks and cite the source.

questions:

1) How did Ives make a living?

2) How was Ives's work regarded during his lifetime?

3) What sort innovations can be found in Ives's' work?

4) Where did Ives get his musical training?

5) What sort of unusual things did Ives learn from his father?

6) What techniques was Ives exploring around the time he wrote The Unanswered Question?

7) Summarize Ives's feelings about using quarter tones.

8) Summarize Ives's views on quoting other music.

9) Summarize Ives's views on singing out of tune.

10) Discuss the quote from the notes to 114 Songs , "Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy-chair?"

11) How does Ives view traditional music education? What kind of people should become composers?