A very short song by this composer alternates between the two whole tone scales and ends with a boy wondering "is life anything like that?
A very short song by this composer alternates between the two whole tone scales and ends with a boy wondering "is life anything like that?" This composer wrote a song whose melody paraphrases the hymn "There is a Fountain Filled With Blood" every time the singer asks "Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?"; that piece, which sets text by Vachel Lindsay, is General William Booth Enters into Heaven. A trumpet is the only brass instrument in one work by this composer that uses an (*) offstage string orchestra playing triple piano the entire piece; that work, The Unanswered Question, was originally paired with his Central Park in the Dark. A block of wood is used to play a cluster chord in this composer's sonata that has movements named after the Alcotts and Thoreau. For 10 points, name this American insurance salesman and composer of the Concord Sonata.
A very short song by this composer alternates between the two whole tone scales and ends with a boy wondering "is life anything like that?
Charles Ives 