The Unanswered Question

The Unanswered Question a song by Charles Ives on Foxsoundi — Free Music, Smart Streaming for Everyone

About The Unanswered Question

The full title Ives originally gave the piece was "A Contemplation of a Serious Matter" or "The Unanswered Perennial Question". His biographer Jan Swafford called it "a kind of collage in three distinct layers, roughly coordinated." The three layers involve the scoring for a woodwind quartet, solo trumpet, and offstage string quartet. Each layer has its own tempo and key. Ives himself described the work as a "cosmic landscape" in which the strings represent "the Silences of the Druids—who Know, See and Hear Nothing. .

From the album: A Young Person's Guide to the Avant-Garde

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