2 Organ Pieces (Ives, Charles)

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Publisher. Info. Bryn Mawr: Mercury Music Co., 1949. Plate M.P. 601.
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Work Title 2 Organ Pieces
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Composer Ives, Charles
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. ICI 4
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 2 pieces:
1. Variations on "America" (melody of God Save the King) (1891)
2. Adeste Fidelis In an Organ Prelude (1897)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1891, 1897
First Publication. 1949
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Early 20th century
Piece Style Early 20th century
Instrumentation organ
Related Works Based on God Save the King
Based on Adeste Fideles

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Around 1890, Ives was much in advance of his fellow composers in musical writing. For example taste the acidulous bitonal/bimodal conterpoint he uses for Adeste fideles where the melody is inverted, then played - in B-flat minor - against the actual hymn in F major (perhaps an allusion to the reversed cross used in the Sabbath evoqued in the note at the beginning). The chords used are similar to some used in The Unanswered Question.