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Kyle Gann is a composer and the Taylor Hawver and Frances Bortle Hawver Professor of Music at Bard College. He is the author of The Arithmetic of Listening: Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician; No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33""; and Robert Ashley.
This is an interesting and important book. . . . Highly recommended. --Choice This is a book which no Ives scholar or enthusiast can be without. It is quite indispensable, a glowing and lasting monument to the forty years which Gann has spent loving and working on his subject. --Journal of Experimental Music Studies Not only an important addition to the thinking about Ives, but a moving companion to the artist and the Concord. --Wire A treatise on past and future performance practice for the 'Concord' Sonata. This is an absolutely essential reading for performers interested in this work. --Notes In Charles Ives's Concord: Essays After a Sonata Gann's analysis takes the form of a kind of biblical exegesis, where canonical texts are pored over by ever-new generations. He achieves a balance between writing for Ives specialists and delivering a text that is compulsively readable. . . . This is a book to savor with headphones. --Times Literary Supplement This is an interesting and important book. . . . Highly recommended. --Choice
