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Charles Ives: Postface to 114 Songs (1922)

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POSTFACE TO 114 SONGS

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

SOMETIME in the first half of 1920, Ives jotted down a schedule of "things to be done" on the back of a page from an early draft of the "Postface" to 114 Songs, which reads as follows:

1. Article for Eastern Underwriter "Small Policies" (by Aug 1).

2. Prefaces & Sonata^[1] for Schirmer (by July 25).

3. Finish and copy "Circus Day Band" (as soon as possible).

4. After 1 & 2 are finish work daily on correcting "Majority."

5. Score #3 N. E. Holidays "4th of July" (anytime before Oct. 1)

6. (correct) Presentation, Torts (Insurance).

7. Send "20 Amendment" paper to magazines^[2] (anytime).

1. The first edition of the Concord Sonata. (The "prefaces" were excerpts from Essays Before a Sonata.)
2. Ives sent the paper to the Atlantic Monthly on May 26, 1920, and two weeks later he sent it to The Outlook.

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