Essays Before a Sonata - Ives, Charles, 1874-1954 (Project Gutenberg, 2003)
Prologue -- Emerson -- Hawthorne -- "The Alcotts" -- Thoreau -- Epilogue.
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Keywords: Music; Ives, Charles, 1874-1954. Sonatas, piano, no. 2; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864; Alcott family