Songs My Mother Taught Me (Charles Ives song)

"Songs My Mother Taught Me" is a song for voice and piano, written by Charles Ives (S. 361, K. 6B21c) in 1895 and set to a poem by Adolf Heyduk.[1][2] Ives' song was written some fifteen years after Dvořák's setting of the same poem, with which it shares some similarities.[1]

There have been numerous arrangements of the Ives song with its nostalgic melody.[3] New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins used it for one of the dances he made in Ives, Songs.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Composition:Charles Ives, Songs My Mother Taught Me, song for voice and piano, S. 361 (K. 6B21c)". AllMusic. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
  2. ^ Burkholder, J. Peter; Sinclair, James B.; Magee, Gayle Sherwood (July 30, 2020). "Ives, Charles (Edward)". Grove Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2252967.
  3. ^ Tiarks, Mark (August 2, 2024). "A mighty mezzo". The Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved November 9, 2024 – via ProQuest.
  4. ^ "IVES, SONGS". New York City Ballet. Retrieved November 9, 2024.


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