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The 6 pages that link to Charles Ives, each with the reason it gives.

• American classical musicRelated: Ives made overlapping vernacular music and formal experimentation central to an American compositional voice.

• Musical quotationRelated: His collages make recognizable borrowed tunes central to a new compositional language.

• Bernard HerrmannRelated: Ives’s independence from European conventions provides a context for Herrmann’s own bold orchestral choices.

• PolytonalityRelated: Ives used overlapping tonal layers in works written before polytonality became widely discussed.

• Elliott CarterRelated: Ives’s example helped Carter reconsider the possibilities of an American musical identity.

• Nicolas SlonimskyRelated: Slonimsky conducted early performances of Ives’s difficult orchestral music.