List of compositions by Charles Ives

The compositions of American composer Charles Ives (1874–1954) are mostly modern classical music. Documenting his list of works is especially difficult, because he had a tendency not to date his works. There have also been controversial speculations that he purposely misdated his own pieces earlier or later than actually written. Ives was prolific, revised works multiple times, and left ambiguous fragments with no title or notes. This list follows James B. Sinclair's A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives. It does not include fragments or projected works.

Ives as a teenager

Orchestra

Symphonies

Sets
For orchestra
For chamber orchestra
  • Set No. 1 (1912); includes Calcium Light Night
  • Set No. 2 (1912); includes Gyp the Blood, or Hearst? Which Is Worst?
  • Set No. 3 (At Sea — Luck and Work — Premonitions, 1917)
  • Set No. 4, Three Poets and Human Nature — projected only
  • Set No. 5, The Other Side of Pioneering, or Side Lights on American Enterprise — projected only
  • Set No. 6, From the Side Hill — projected only
  • Set No. 7, Water Colors — projected or lost
  • Set No. 8, Songs Without Voices — projected only
  • Set No. 9 of Three Pieces (The Last Reader — The See’r — The Unanswered Question, 1934)
  • Set No. 10 of Three Pieces (Like a Sick Eagle — Luck and Work — The Indians, 1934)
  • Set for Theatre Orchestra (1915)

Overtures
  • Alcott Overture (1904, inc., but re-used for the third movement of Piano Sonata No.2)
  • Emerson Overture for Piano and Orchestra or Emerson Concerto (1911–12, incomplete, but re-used for the first movement of Piano Sonata No.2)
  • Matthew Arnold Overture (1912, inc.)
  • Overture and March: 1776 (1904, rev. 1910; re-used in "Putnam's Camp" from Three Places in New England and Holidays Symphony)
  • Overture in G Minor (1899, inc.)
  • Overture: Nationals (1915, inc. sketches; adapted from Overture and March: 1776; )
  • Robert Browning Overture (1914, rev. 1942)

Marches
  • Holiday Quickstep (1887)
  • Country Band March ((Sketched 1903), rev. 1912, inc. - used in "Putnam's Camp")
  • March No. 2, with Son of a Gambolier (1895?)
  • March No. 3 in F and C (1893?, inc.)
  • March No. 3, with My Old Kentucky Home (1895?)
  • March No. 4 in F and C (1894?, inc.)
  • The Circus Band (1898)

Others
  • Central Park in the Dark (1906, rev. 1936)
  • Chromâtimelôdtune (1923?)
  • Quarter-Tone Chorale for Strings (1914, lost)[1]
  • The General Slocum (1910?, inc.)
  • The Gong on the Hook and Ladder (1911)
  • Piece for Small Orchestra and Organ (1905?, mostly lost)
  • The Pond (1906, rev. 1913)
  • Postlude in F (1899?)
  • Three Ragtime Dances (1911, mostly lost)
  • Four Ragtime Dances (?)
  • Nine Ragtime Pieces (1902?, mostly lost)
  • The Rainbow (1914)
  • Skit for Danbury Fair (1909, inc.)
  • Take-Off No. 7: Mike Donlin-Johnny Evers (1907, inc.)
  • Take-Off No. 8: Willy Keeler at Bat (1907, inc.)
  • Tone Roads et al. (1915?)
  • The Unanswered Question (1908, rev. 1935)
  • Yale-Princeton Football Game (1899, inc.)

Band
  • Fantasia on Jerusalem the Golden (1888)
  • March in F and C, with Omega Lambda Chi (1896)
  • March Intercollegiate, with Annie Lisle (1892)
  • Runaway Horse on Main Street (1908, inc.)
  • Schoolboy March in D and F, Op. 1 (1886, mostly lost)

Chamber/Instrumental
String quartet
Violin sonata
  • Pre-First Sonata for Violin and Piano (1913)
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 (1917?)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 (1917?)
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 (1914?)
  • Violin Sonata No. 4: Children's Day at the Camp Meeting (1916)
Other
  • Decoration Day (1919)
  • From the Steeples and the Mountains (1901)
  • Fugue in B-flat (1895?, inc.)
  • Fugue in D (1895?, mostly lost)
  • Fugue in Four Greek Modes (1897, inc.)
  • Fugue in Four Keys on The Shining Shore (1903?, inc.)
  • Hallowe'en (1914)
  • In Re Con Moto et al. (1916)
  • Largo for Violin and Piano (1901)
  • Largo for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano (1934? arrangement of Largo for violin and piano)
  • Largo Risoluto No. 1 (1909)
  • Largo Risoluto No. 2 (1910)
  • An Old Song Deranged (1903)
  • Piece in G for String Quartet (1891?)
  • Polonaise (1887, inc.)
  • Practice for String Quartet in Holding Your Own! (1903)
  • Prelude on Eventide (1908)
  • Scherzo: All the Way Around and Back (1908)
  • Scherzo: Over the Pavements (1910)
  • Scherzo for String Quartet (1904)
  • A Set of Three Short Pieces (1935?)
  • Take-Off No. 3: Rube Trying to Walk 2 to 3!! (1909)
  • Trio for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano (1907, rev. 1915)

Keyboard

Works for piano

Sonatas

Studies

  • 27 Studies for piano, 8 lost [2] [3] [4]
    • Study No. 1: Allegro (incomplete)
    • Study No. 2: Andante moderato-Allegro molto (Varied Air and Variations)
    • Study No. 3: (lost)
    • Study No. 4: Allegro moderato (incomplete)
    • Study No. 5: Moderato con anima
    • Study No. 6: Andante (1907-1909)
    • Study No. 7: Andante cantabile (1907)
    • Study No. 8: Trio (Allegro moderato-Presto) (1907)
    • Study No. 9: The Anti-Abolitionist Riots in the 1830s and 1840s
    • Study No. 10 (mostly lost)
    • Study No. 11: Andante (incomplete)
    • Study No. 12: (lost)
    • Study No. 13: (lost)
    • Study No. 14: (lost)
    • Study No. 15: Allegro moderato (incomplete) (1907-1909; 1920s)
    • Study No. 16: Andante cantabile (incomplete) (1907-1909; 1920s)
    • Study No. 17: (lost)
    • Study No. 18: Sunrise Cadenza (Adagio) (incomplete)
    • Study No. 19 (incomplete) (1907-1909; 1920s)
    • Study No. 20: March (Slow allegro or Fast andante) (1910, 1920s)
    • Study No. 21: Some Southpaw Pitching (1918-19)
    • Study No. 22: Andante maestoso-Allegro vivace (1909)
    • Study No. 23: Allegro (1912-1914; 1920s)
    • Study No. 24: (lost)
    • Study No. 25: (lost)
    • Study No. 26: (lost)
    • Study No. 27: Chromâtimelôdtune (incomplete)

Marches

  • March No. 1 for Piano, with "Year of Jubilee" (c1894-5)
  • March No. 2 for Piano, with "Son of a Gambolier" [inc.] (1895)
  • March No. 3 for Piano, with "Omega Lambda Chi" (c1895-6)
  • March No. 5 for Piano, with "Annie Lisle" (c1895)
  • March No. 6 for Piano, with "Here's to Good Old Yale" (c1895-6)
  • March in G and C for Piano, with "See the Conquering Hero Comes" (1896-7)
  • March for Piano: The Circus Band (c1898-9)

Other works

  • The Celestial Railroad (c1922-5)
  • Three Improvisations (1938)
  • Invention in D (c1898)
  • Minuetto, Op. 4 (1886)
  • New Year's Dance (1887)
  • Piece in G Minor
  • Set of Five Take-Offs (c1909)
  • Four Transcriptions from "Emerson" (c1923-7)
  • Varied Air and Variations (1920-2)
  • Waltz-Rondo (1911)

Two pianos

  • Burlesque Storm
  • Drum Corps or Scuffle [mostly lost]
  • Three Quarter-Tone Pieces
  • Ragtime Dances for Two Pianos

Works for Organ
  • Adagio in F
  • "Adeste Fideles" in an Organ Prelude (c1903)
  • Burlesque Postlude in B
  • Burlesque Postlude in C
  • Canzonetta in F (c1893-4)
  • Fugue in C Minor (c1898)
  • Fugue in E (c1898)
  • Interludes for Hymns (1898-1901)
  • Melody in E
  • Postlude for Thanksgiving Service [mostly lost]
  • Variations on "America", for organ (1891) (arranged for orchestra by William Schuman and also arranged for piano solo by Lowell Liebermann)
  • Voluntary in C Minor
  • Voluntary in F

Vocal

Songs
  • Abide with me
  • Aeschylus and Sophocles
  • Afterglow
  • Allegro
  • The All-Enduring
  • Amphion
  • Ann Street
  • At Parting
  • At Sea
  • At the River
  • Atalanta
  • August
  • Autumn [II]
  • Because of You
  • Because Thou Art
  • Berceuse
  • The Cage
  • The Camp Meeting
  • Canon [I]
  • Canon [II]
  • Chanson de Florian
  • Charlie Rutlage
  • The Children's Hour
  • A Christmas Carol
  • The Circus Band
  • The Collection
  • The Coming of the Day
  • Country Celestial
  • Cradle Song
  • December
  • Disclosure
  • Down East
  • Dream Sweetly
  • Dreams
  • Du alte Mutter / My dear old mother
  • Du bist wie eine Blume
  • Ein Ton / I hear a tone
  • Elégie
  • The Ending Year
  • Evening
  • Evidence
  • Far from my heav'nly home
  • Far in the wood
  • A Farewell to Land
  • La Fede
  • Feldeinsamkeit / In Summer Fields
  • Flag Song
  • Forward into Light
  • Friendship
  • Frühlingslied
  • General William Booth Enters into Heaven
  • God Bless and Keep Thee
  • Grace
  • Grantchester
  • The Greatest Man
  • Gruss
  • Harpalus
  • He Is There!
  • Her Eyes
  • Her gown was of vermilion silk
  • His Exaltation
  • The Housatonic at Stockbridge
  • Hymn
  • Hymn of Trust
  • I knew and loved a maid
  • I travelled among unknown men
  • Ich grolle nicht / I'll not complain
  • Ilmenau / Over all the treetops
  • Immortality
  • In a mountain spring
  • In April-tide
  • In Autumn
  • In Flanders Fields
  • In My Beloved's Eyes
  • In the Alley
  • The "Incantation"
  • Incomplete song [I]
  • Incomplete song [II]
  • The Indians
  • The Innate
  • Kären
  • The Last Reader
  • The Light That Is Felt
  • Like a Sick Eagle
  • Lincoln, the Great Commoner
  • Longing
  • Die Lotosblume / The Lotus Flower
  • The Love Song of Har Dyal
  • Luck and Work
  • Majority
  • Maple Leaves
  • Marie
  • Memories: a. Very Pleasant; b. Rather Sad
  • Minnelied
  • Mirage
  • Mists [I]
  • Mists [II]
  • My Lou Jennine
  • My Native Land [I]
  • My Native Land [II]
  • My Task
  • Nature's Way
  • Naught that country needeth
  • The New River
  • Night of Frost in May
  • A Night Song
  • A Night Thought
  • No More
  • Nov. 2, 1920 (An Election)
  • An Old Flame
  • Old Home Day
  • The Old Mother
  • Omens and Oracles
  • On Judges' Walk
  • On the Antipodes
  • On the Counter
  • "1, 2, 3"
  • The One Way
  • The Only Son
  • Paracelsus
  • Peaks
  • A Perfect Day
  • Pictures
  • Premonitions
  • Qu'il m'irait bien
  • The Rainbow (So May It Be!)
  • Religion
  • Remembrance
  • Requiem
  • Resolution
  • Rock of Ages
  • Romanzo (di Central Park)
  • Rosamunde
  • Rosenzweige
  • Rough Wind
  • Runaway Horse on Main Street
  • A Scotch Lullaby
  • A Sea Dirge
  • The Sea of Sleep
  • The See'r
  • Sehnsucht
  • September
  • Serenity
  • The Side Show
  • Slow March
  • Slugging a Vampire
  • Smoke
  • Soliloquy
  • A Son of a Gambolier
  • Song
  • A Song--For Anything: a. When the waves softly sigh; b. Yale, Farewell!; c. Hear My Prayer, O Lord
  • Song for Harvest Season
  • The Song of the Dead [lost]
  • Song without words [I]
  • Song without words [II]
  • Song without words [III]
  • Songs my Mother Taught Me
  • The South Wind / Die Lotosblume
  • Spring Song
  • The Sun shines hot
  • Sunrise
  • Swimmers
  • Tarrant Moss
  • Thee I Love
  • There is a certain garden
  • There is a lane
  • They Are There!
  • The Things Our Fathers Loved
  • Thoreau
  • Those Evening Bells
  • Through Night and Day
  • To Edith
  • Tolerance
  • Tom Sails Away
  • Two Little Flowers
  • Two Slants (Christian and Pagan): a. Duty; b. Vita
  • Vote for Names! Names! Names!
  • The Waiting Soul
  • Walking
  • Walt Whitman
  • Waltz
  • Watchman! [II]
  • Weil' auf mir / Eyes so dark
  • West London
  • When stars are in the quiet skies
  • Where the eagle cannot see
  • The White Gulls
  • Who knows the light
  • Widmung
  • Wie Melodien zieht es mir
  • Wiegenlied
  • William Will
  • The World's Highway
  • The World's Wanderers
  • Yellow Leaves

Choral works

Multi-movement sacred works

  • The Celestial Country (1898-1902)
  • Communion Service (c1894)
  • Three Harvest Home Chorales (c1902, c1912-15)

Psalms

  • Psalm 14 (1902, 1912–13)
  • Psalm 24 (1901, 1912–13)
  • Psalm 25 (1901, 1912–13)
  • Psalm 42 (1891–92)
  • Psalm 54 (1902)
  • Psalm 67 (1898–99)
  • Psalm 90 (1923–24)
  • Psalm 100 (1902)
  • Psalm 135 (1902, 1912–13)
  • Psalm 150 (1898–99)

Other sacred works

  • All-Forgiving, look on me
  • Anthem: With Hearts Rejoicing Ever
  • Be Thou, O God, Exalted High
  • Benedictus in E
  • Benedictus in G
  • Bread of the World
  • Nine Canticle Phrases
  • Chant, Op. 2, No. 2
  • Crossing the Bar
  • Easter Anthem
  • Easter Carol
  • Gloria in Excelsis
  • Hymn, Op. 2, No. 1
  • I Come to Thee
  • I Think of Thee, My God
  • Kyrie
  • Life of the World
  • The Light That Is Felt
  • Lord God, Thy Sea Is Mighty
  • O God, My Heart Is Fixed
  • Processsional: Let There Be Light
  • Serenity [mostly lost]
  • Turn Ye, Turn Ye

Secular chorus with instrumental ensemble

  • December
  • An Election
  • General William Booth Enters into Heaven
  • He Is There!
  • Johnny Poe
  • Lincoln, the Great Commoner
  • The Masses (Majority)
  • The New River
  • Sneak Thief
  • They Are There! (A War Song March)
  • Two Slants (Christian and Pagan)
  • Walt Whitman

Partsongs

  • Age of Gold
  • The Bells of Yale
  • The Boys in Blue
  • For You and Me!
  • My Sweet Jeanette
  • O Maiden Fair
  • Partsong in A
  • Partsong in B
  • Partsong in E
  • Serenade
  • A Song of Mory's
  • The Year's at the Spring

Ballets to the music of Charles Ives

References
  1. Gardner Read: 20th-Century Microtonal Notation (New York, Greenwood Press, 1990) p. 76
  2. "Charles Ives: List of Compositions". Archived from the original on 22 February 2015. Retrieved 2015-02-15.
  3. "The Unknown Ives liner notes" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 2015-02-15.
  4. Henderson, Clayton W. (2008). The Charles Ives Tunebook. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253350909.

Further reading
  • James B. Sinclair: A descriptive catalogue of the music of Charles Ives (Yale University Press, 1999).
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