Essays Before a Sonata

This edition has images. Title: Essays Before a Sonata Contents: Prologue -- Emerson -- Hawthorne -- "The Alcotts" -- Thoreau -- Epilogue. Credits: Produced by John Mamoun with help from the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team of Charles Franks. HTMLversion by Al Haines. Summary: "Essays Before a Sonata" by Charles Ives is a collection of essays written in the early 20th century serving as program notes for Ives' second piano sonata, titled "Concord, Mass., 1845." The book explores the...