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Charles Ives's Four Ragtime Dances and 'True American Music' — Charles Ives and His World / Ives studies (book chapter)

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Charles Ives and His World / Ives studies (book chapter)
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University of California Press
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Claims

  1. Ives incorporated three of his Four Ragtime Dances into the two scherzo movements of the First Piano Sonata, adding to the fourth movement a newly composed passage of particularly intense ragtime-inflected rhythms; material from movement IIb ('In the Inn') was later reorchestrated for a movement of A Set of Pieces for Theatre or Chamber Orchestra.
    "He incorporated three of the Four Ragtime Dances into the two scherzo movements of the First Piano Sonata, adding to the sonata's fourth movement a newly composed passage packed with particularly intense ragtime-inflected rhythms."
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