Essays before a Sonata (Ives, Charles)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	6 chapters
First Publication	1920
Genre Categories	Music history; Writings; English language

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*#96225 - 4.58MB, 144 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/C - 5429×⇩ - Schissel

Publisher. Info.	New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1920.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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Work Title	Essays Before a Sonata
Alternative. Title
Composer	Ives, Charles
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	ICI 2
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	6 chapters: Prologue Emerson Hawthorne "The Alcotts" Thoreau Epilogue
First Publication.	1920
Language	English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Early 20th century
Piece Style	Early 20th century

"Written primarily as a preface or reason for the second pianoforte sonata-Concord, Mass., 1845" - from the description at archive.org.
(Would tag as autobiographies but seems not quite on-target. Preface? - Schissel)
Though it had a definite connection to the second piano sonata, Grove Music describes this as "his most detailed statement of his aesthetics", so it has a far more general subject matter. Aesthetics doesn't easily fall into the music theory category, so I've tagged it as music history. (Steltz)