That book's chapters are named after the movements of his second piano sonata, which quotes Beethoven's Hammerklavier, features a flute playing the song "Martyn," and directs the player to create a cluster chord with a piece of wood.
This composer wrote a book which he prefaced by saying his essays were for those who couldn't standhis music, and his music for those who couldn't stand his essays. That book's chapters are named after the movements of his second piano sonata, which quotes Beethoven's Hammerklavier, features a flute playing the song "Martyn," and directs the player to create a cluster chord with a piece of wood. Another of his works features a backdrop of strings while woodwind and piano imitate "night owls from Healy's" and play popular songs like Hello (*) Ma Baby and Sousa's Washington Post. Yet another work by him features the "invisible reply" of a flute to the titular query by a trumpet, and another is divided into movements such as "Putnam's Camp" andthe "Housatonic at Stockbridge." For 10 points, name this author of Essays Before a Sonata, an American composer of the Concord Sonata, Central Park in the Dark, The Unanswered Question, and Three Places in New England.
This composer wrote a book which he prefaced by saying his essays were for those who couldn't standhis music, and his music for those who couldn't stand his essays.
Charles Ives