Essays Before a Sonata: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 10 original MP3 tracks, 3:21:04 running time and a link to listen.
Essays Before a Sonata, credited to Charles Ives, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Essays before a Sonata by Charles Ives. Read in English by Edmund Bloxam Some philosophical studies in relation to the ideas of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne. Although the sonata is not explicitly referenced in this text, the ideas of these philosophers were attempted to be integrated into Ives' famous 'Piano Sonata No. 2 Concord, Mass.' - Summary by Reader
Recording facts
- Recording title: Essays Before a Sonata
- Author credits: Charles Ives
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 10
- Listed recording duration: 3:21:04
Catalogue topics
- philosophy
- America
- transcendentalism
Track guide
- 01 - Introductions — 18:01
- 02 - Emerson 1 — 24:05
- 03 - Emerson 2 — 23:43
- 04 - Emerson 3 — 13:50
- 05 - Hawthorne — 7:35
- 06 - The Alcotts — 7:14
- 07 - Thoreau — 35:04
- 08 - Epilogues 1-3 — 16:15
- 09 - Epilogues 4-5 — 39:24
- 10 - Epilogues 6-9 — 15:53
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