List of compositions by Charles Ives


The compositions of American composer Charles Ives are mostly modern classical music. Ives was prolific, revised works multiple times, and left ambiguous fragments with no title or notes. A chronology of works is especially difficult because of missing and sometimes misleading dates; as Elliott Carter put it in 1939: " has rewritten his works so many times, adding dissonances and polyrhythms, that it is impossible to tell just at what date the works assumed the surprising form we know now."
This list follows James B. Sinclair's A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives. It does not include fragments or projected works.

Orchestra

Symphonies

Sets

;For orchestra
;For chamber orchestra
  • Set No. 1 ; includes Calcium Light Night
  • Set No. 2 ; includes Gyp the Blood, or Hearst? Which Is Worst?
  • Set No. 3
  • Set No. 4, Three Poets and Human Nature – projected only
  • Set No. 5, The Other Side of Pioneering, or Side Lights on American Enterprise – projected only
  • Set No. 6, From the Side Hill – projected only
  • Set No. 7, Water Colors – projected or lost
  • Set No. 8, Songs Without Voices – projected only
  • Set No. 9 of Three Pieces
  • Set No. 10 of Three Pieces
  • Set for Theatre Orchestra

Overtures

Alcott Overture Emerson Overture for Piano and Orchestra or Emerson Concerto Matthew Arnold Overture
  • Overture and March: 1776
  • Overture in G Minor
  • Overture: Nationals
  • ''Robert Browning Overture''

Marches

Holiday Quickstep Country Band March
  • March No. 2, with Son of a Gambolier
  • March No. 3 in F and C
  • March No. 3, with My Old Kentucky Home
  • March No. 4 in F and C
  • ''The Circus Band''

Others

Hymn: Largo cantabile, from A Set of Three Short Pieces Central Park in the Dark Chromâtimelôdtune Quarter-Tone Chorale for Strings The General Slocum The Gong on the Hook and Ladder or Firemen's Parade on Main Street
  • Piece for Small Orchestra and Organ The Pond
  • Postlude in F
  • Three Ragtime Dances
  • Four Ragtime Dances
  • Nine Ragtime Pieces The Rainbow Skit for Danbury Fair Take-Off No. 7: Mike Donlin–Johnny Evers Take-Off No. 8: Willy Keeler at Bat Tone Roads et al.
  • * Tone Roads No. 1
  • * Tone Roads No. 2
  • * Tone Roads No. 3 The Unanswered Question
  • ''Yale–Princeton Football Game''

Band

  • Fantasia on Jerusalem the Golden
  • March in F and C, with Omega Lambda Chi
  • March Intercollegiate, with Annie Lisle Runaway Horse on Main Street
  • Schoolboy March in D and F, Op. 1

Chamber/Instrumental

;String quartet
;Violin sonata
  • Pre-First Sonata for Violin and Piano
  • Violin Sonata No. 1
  • Violin Sonata No. 2
  • Violin Sonata No. 3
  • Violin Sonata No. 4: Children's Day at the Camp Meeting
;OtherDecoration Day From the Steeples and the Mountains
  • Fugue in B-flat
  • Fugue in D
  • Fugue in Four Greek Modes
  • Fugue in Four Keys on The Shining Shore Hymn: Largo cantabile, from A Set of Three Short Pieces Hallowe'en In Re Con Moto et al., for violin, viola, bass, and piano, world premiere given in February 1966 at Carnegie Hall
  • Largo for Violin and Piano
  • Largo for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano
  • Largo Risoluto No. 1
  • Largo Risoluto No. 2 An Old Song Deranged
  • Piece in G for String Quartet
  • Polonaise Practice for String Quartet in Holding Your Own!
  • Prelude on Eventide
  • Scherzo: All the Way Around and Back
  • Scherzo: Over the Pavements
  • Scherzo for String Quartet A Set of Three Short Pieces
  • Take-Off No. 3: Rube Trying to Walk 2 to 3!!
  • Trio for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano

Keyboard

Works for piano

Sonatas
Studies
  • 27 Studies for piano, 8 lost
  • * Study No. 1: Allegro
  • * Study No. 2: Andante moderato–Allegro molto
  • * Study No. 3:
  • * Study No. 4: Allegro moderato
  • * Study No. 5: Moderato con anima
  • * Study No. 6: Andante
  • * Study No. 7: Andante cantabile
  • * Study No. 8: Trio
  • * Study No. 9: The Anti-Abolitionist Riots in the 1830s and 1840s
  • * Study No. 10
  • * Study No. 11: Andante
  • * Study No. 12:
  • * Study No. 13:
  • * Study No. 14:
  • * Study No. 15: Allegro moderato
  • * Study No. 16: Andante cantabile
  • * Study No. 17:
  • * Study No. 18: Sunrise Cadenza
  • * Study No. 19
  • * Study No. 20: March
  • * Study No. 21: Some Southpaw Pitching
  • * Study No. 22: Andante maestoso–Allegro vivace
  • * Study No. 23: Allegro
  • * Study No. 24:
  • * Study No. 25:
  • * Study No. 26:
  • * Study No. 27: Chromâtimelôdtune
Marches
  • March No. 1 for Piano, with "Year of Jubilee"
  • March No. 2 for Piano, with "Son of a Gambolier"
  • March No. 3 for Piano, with "Omega Lambda Chi"
  • March No. 5 for Piano, with "Annie Lisle"
  • March No. 6 for Piano, with "Here's to Good Old Yale"
  • March in G and C for Piano, with "See the Conquering Hero Comes"
  • March for Piano: The Circus Band
Other works
  • The Celestial Railroad
  • Three Improvisations
  • Invention in D
  • Minuetto, Op. 4
  • New Year's Dance
  • Piece in G Minor
  • Set of Five Take-Offs
  • Four Transcriptions from "Emerson"
  • Varied Air and Variations
  • Waltz–Rondo
Two pianos
  • Burlesque Storm
  • Drum Corps or Scuffle
  • Three Quarter-Tone Pieces
  • Ragtime Dances for Two Pianos

Works for organ

  • Adagio in F
  • "Adeste Fideles" in an Organ Prelude
  • Burlesque Postlude in B
  • Burlesque Postlude in C
  • Canzonetta in F
  • Fugue in C Minor
  • Fugue in E
  • Interludes for Hymns
  • Melody in E
  • Postlude for Thanksgiving Service
  • Variations on "America", for organ
  • Voluntary in C Minor
  • Voluntary in F

Vocal

Choral works

Multi-movement sacred works
  • The Celestial Country
  • Communion Service
  • Three Harvest Home Chorales
Psalms
  • Psalm 14
  • Psalm 24
  • Psalm 25
  • Psalm 42
  • Psalm 54
  • Psalm 67
  • Psalm 90
  • Psalm 100
  • Psalm 135
  • Psalm 150
Other sacred works
  • All-Forgiving, look on me
  • Anthem: With Hearts Rejoicing Ever
  • Be Thou, O God, Exalted High
  • Benedictus in E
  • Benedictus in G
  • Bread of the World
  • Nine Canticle Phrases
  • Chant, Op. 2, No. 2
  • Crossing the Bar
  • Easter Anthem
  • Easter Carol
  • Gloria in excelsis
  • Hymn, Op. 2, No. 1
  • I Come to Thee
  • I Think of Thee, My God
  • Kyrie
  • Life of the World
  • The Light That Is Felt
  • Lord God, Thy Sea Is Mighty
  • O God, My Heart Is Fixed
  • Processsional: Let There Be Light
  • Serenity
  • Turn Ye, Turn Ye
Secular chorus with instrumental ensemble
Partsongs

Ballets to the music of Charles Ives

Ives, SongsIvesiana