Considered by many to be Ives' most ambitious completed work, Symphony No. 4 is available for the first time in a critical edition full score. This authoritative edition makes the Ives'
masterwork more accessible to conductors, scholars, librarians, and Ives enthusiasts. Includes: a General Preface and Preface to each movement * Program Note from the 1927 Partial Premiere *
Ives' Conductor's Note to the Second Movement * Critical Edition Full Score of all Four Movements and an engraving of the Fourth Movement Revised Score Manuscript * Detailed listings of Sources
* Critical Editorial Commentary * and a Detailed listing of CD-ROM Contents. The companion CD-ROM contains: Manuscript Facsimiles from The Charles Ives Papers (courtesy of the Irving S. Gilmore
Music Library of Yale University) * Pages from the Critical Edition for study at higher magnification * and Color-Coded Quotation Analysis highlighting the "Musical Borrowing" of tunes in
Symphony No. 4.
