Thematic Transformation and Vague Memories in Charles Ives's Concord Sonata
Reception of Charles Ives's Concord Sonata has principally focused on the work's use of collage techniques and its references to figures associated with American Transcendentalism.Chris-topher Bruhn has expanded this focus by invoking William James's idea of"the stream of thought"or"consciousness"as a way of approaching the work.In this paper,the author develop the concept of"the stream of thought"alongside the analysis of musical quotations and Ives's notion of"vague remembrance,"as expressed in his Essays before a Sonata,to demonstrate how Ives has adapted the Lisztian technique of thematic transformation to create a sense of ambiguous memory.This paper ar-gues that the"local"analysis of citation and collage in Ives's work can benefit from a broader formal perspective shaped by the work of William James and Liszt.
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