Listening to Charles Ives

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Timeline
Introduction

Chapter 1: A Most Unusual Career, and a Recital of Songs
Memories . The Circus Band . Walking . The Cage . Down East . General William Booth Enters into Heaven

Chapter 2: An American Musical Childhood
Holiday Quickstep . Variations on "America"

Chapter 3: Apprenticeship
Feldeinsamkeit . Ich grolle nicht . Symphony No. 1 in D Minor

Chapter 4: Weaving the Threads
String Quartet No. 1 . Psalm 67 . Yale-Princeton Football Game

Chapter 5: Seeking and Finding
Central Park in the Dark . The Unanswered Question

Chapter 6: Synthesizing American and European Music
Symphony No. 2

Chapter 7: A New Form
Symphony No. 3: The Camp Meeting . The Violin Sonatas

Chapter 8: American Holidays
A Symphony: New England Holidays

Chapter 9: American Histories
Orchestral Set No. 1: Three Places in New England . Orchestral Set No. 2

Chapter 10: American Literature
Piano Sonata No. 2: Concord, Mass., 1840-1860

Chapter 11: Transcendent Journeys
String Quartet No. 2 . Symphony No. 4

Chapter 12: Collecting Songs, and Late Works
114 Songs . Psalm 90

Epilogue
Selected Reading
Selected Listening
About the Author