Music Made From Memories Charles Ives' Holiday Symphony

EXAMINE THE SCORE to see how Ives uses four innovative techniques to help portray his boyhood memories.

Father’s Experiments

Father's Experiments

—not memoirs—no one but the President of a nice Bank or a Golf Club, or a dead Prime Minister, can write “memoirs. Many of these things are of no interest to anyone but a stray and distant cousin or so—or to me—sometimes….

Read Berlioz’s own words describing his thoughts and feelings.

Read the reaction from Berlioz’s contemporaries

The Score

EXAMINE THE SCORE to see how Ives portrays his boyhood memories.

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Anonymous
September 9, 2010

I love the Shining Shore, beautifully done.

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