"Charlie Rutlage"

When was the Charles Ives version of “Charlie Rutlage” made?

1920-21

When did Ira Sires make her transcription of “Charlie Rutledge”?

1928

“Another good cowpuncher” is changed to what in Sires’s version?

Another gallant cowboy

When did Robert C. Wyde first hear “Charlie Rutlage”?

1948

When did Robert C. Wylder compose a version of Charlie Rutlage for his master’s thesis?

1949

When did David Cohen make a score for Charlie Rutledge?

1968

What is the time signature and key signature of Sires’s version?

6/8;1 flat

What is the time signature and key signature of Wylder’s version?

6/8;1 flat

What is the time signature and key signature of Cohen’s version?

Common-time;2 sharps

What is the time signature used for Ives’s version?

Common-time

What collection did Cohen publish “Charlie Rutledge” in?

‘Songs of the American West’

What folk song does Cohen use as the basis for his version of Charlie Rutledge?

“The Lakes of Pontchartrain” as sung by the Louisiana Honeydrippers

Ives’s melody of Charlie Rutledge is most similar to…

Cohen’s version

What collection did Charles Ives publish “Charlie Rutlage” in?

114 Songs (1922)

The contour of Ives’s and Cohen’s melody start to differ after…

The first 3 notes

When did Ives’s probably set his poem?

1914 or 1915

How does Ives open “Charlie Rutlage”?

With a piano ostinato with a boom-chick accompaniment

What is a boom-chick accompaniment?

The left and right hands alternate block chords

How can the vocal line of “Charlie Rutlage” be initially described?

Choppy

By when in the song does Charlie Rutlage quit resembling a folk performance?

Second verse

After the second verse, the singer must rely on only…

Rhythmic notation

When is the pianist meant to start singing with the vocalist?

The fourth measure

The cluster-chords when Charlie dies culminate in…

A massive, sustained roar

What is a cluster-chord/tone cluster?

A harmony filled with adjacent seconds

What is the volume of the cluster-chord?

ffff

How can Ives as a person be described?

Eccentric and somewhat isolated

What type of melody plays above the “boom-chick” accompaniment?

Triadic

What 3 styles does Charlie Rutlage alternate between?

Folk, dreamlike, and narrative

When the “Dream” style first enters, what happens?

There is a drop to piano and descending line

How does Charlie Rutlage end?

Two G pitches, than F (The dominant) during ritardando