The Unanswered Question by Charles Ives String Orchestra - Sheet Music

Name: The Unanswered Question
Brand: Peermusic Classical
SKU: 5062350
Price: 29.95 USD
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By Charles Ives

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Instrument:

Clarinet Flute C Trumpet

Genres:

20th Century

Composers:

Charles Ives

Publishers:

Peermusic Classical

Item types:

Physical

Artist:

Charles Ives

Usages:

School and Community

Detailed Description

Flute quartet (oboe or clarinet substitutions), string quartet (or five-part string orchestra) and trumpet in C

SKU: PR.615528510

Composed by Charles Ives. This edition: Ives Society Critical Edition, with scores of both the 1906 and 1935 versions. Sws. 20th Century. Full Score - Study. With critical commentary. 19 pages. Duration 6 minutes, 15 seconds. Peermusic Classical #61552-851. Published by Peermusic Classical (PR.615528510).

UPC: 680160428564. 9x12 inches.

This is one of Ives's most famous and popular pieces, combining innovation with a philosophical program. The strings, representing the "Silences of the Druids —who Know, See, and Hear Nothing," play a soft, serene passage in G major. Above this, a solo trumpet intones seven times "The Perennial Question of Existence," a five-note melody that suggests no key. The winds attempt to answer with dissonant, atonal figures that become faster, louder, and more frenetic each time. After a "secret conference" (a cluster of notes in a low register), the winds mock the question, which is heard one last time.