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kirkpatrick-program-arch · albany-ives-first-sonata-kirkpatrick
- Citation
- albany-ives-first-sonata-kirkpatrick
- Claim ID
- kirkpatrick-program-arch
- Assertion
- According to pianist and Ives scholar John Kirkpatrick, the sonata has a programmatic character: the family is together in the first and fifth movements, the boy is 'sowing his oats' in the ragtime second and fourth movements, and there is parental anxiety in the third; the hymn quotations structure the work as a large five-part arch form. Kirkpatrick's reading is reported in the Albany Records notes, which also call the work a landmark of American piano literature that is less well known than Ives's Concord Sonata.
- Quote
the family together in the 1st and 5th movements; the boy is sowing his oats in the ragtimes (2nd and 4th movements); and there is parental anxiety in the third movement. The hymns quoted in each specific movement strengthen the programmatic aspect of the sonata and structure the composition as a large overall five-part arch form.
- Quote language
- en
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