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Charles Ives: A Life With Music
Jan Swafford

W. W. Norton & Company, 1998

A Great American Composer Brought to Life
Charles Ives (1874-1954)was the first, and still probably the greatest, composer of a distinctly American art ("classical") music. His relationship to American music seems to me roughly parallel to Walt Whitman's relationship to American poetry and to Charles Peirce's ...
  
  











  



  
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music
Jan Swafford

Vintage, 1992

"The Vintage Guide to Classical Music" by Jan Swafford - Striking a Responsive Chord
Music has been an important part of my life from the beginning. Somewhere in a dust-covered box lies a 45-RPM vinyl record of me as a 2 year-old belting out "Jesus Loves Me" at a church fair in Newburyport, Massachusetts! Beginning in the third grade, I studied violin ...
  
  











  



  
Johannes Brahms: A Biography
Jan Swafford

Vintage, 1999

A Magisterial--or Should I Say, Masterly?--Work of Biography
I have never heard a piece of music by composer Jan Swafford, but if he composes as well as he writes, his music should be stimulating indeed. Some reviewers have called this book hard to put down, a page-turner. I found it so. Part of its interest lies in Brahms ...
  
  











  



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