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"The word "beauty" is as easy to use as the word "degenerate." Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you."
Charles IvesStand up and take your dissonance like a man. — Charles Ives
"Stand up and take your dissonance like a man."
Charles Ives
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Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer, actuary and businessman. Ives was among the earliest renowned American composers to achieve recognition on a global scale. His music was largely ignored during his early career, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Later in life, the quality of his music was publicly recognized through the efforts of contemporaries like Henr
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"[Ives] was exploring the 1960s during the heyday of Strauss and Debussy. polytonality; atonality; tone clusters; perspectivistic effects; chance; statistical composition; permutation; add-a-part, practical-joke, and improvisatory music: these were ives’ discoveries a half-century ago as he quietly set about devouring the contemporary cake before the rest of us even found a seat at the same table."
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"Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man."
Charles Ives