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Charles Ives: A Life in Music

Jan Swafford

A biography of the American composer examines how his music was shaped by his Yankee background, the influence of his father, and his Yale education

BiographyBiography · medium confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> BiographyIntellectual Biography

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyMajor1996FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Charles Ives90%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Yale40%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The biography argues that Charles Ives’s music was shaped by his Yankee background, his father’s influence, and his Yale education.

    Model confidence 78%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 74%.