List of compositions by Charles Ives

The compositions of American composer Charles Ives (1874–1954) are mostly modern classical music. Documenting his list of works is especially difficult, because he had a tendency not to date his works, or misdate them for some unknown reason. Additionally, he was very prolific, revised works multiple times, and left ambiguous fragments with no title or notes.

Orchestra

Symphonies

* Symphony No. 1 (1901)
* Symphony No. 2 (1902, revised 1910)
* (1901, rev. 1911)
* Symphony No. 4 (1916)
* (1919)
* "Universe Symphony" (1928, unfinished)

Sets

;For orchestra
* (1912–16, revised 1929)
* Orchestral Set No. 2 (1909–19)
* Orchestral Set No. 3 (1919–26; notes added after 1934);For chamber orchestra
* Set No. 1 (1912); includes Calcium Light Night
* Set No. 2 (1912); includes "Gyp the Blood" or Hearst—Which is Worst!? (inc.)
* Set No. 3 (1917)
* Set No. 4: "Three Poets and Human Nature" (1925-30?)
* Set No. 5: "The Other Side of Pioneering", or "Side Lights on American Enterprise" (1925-30?)
* Set No. 6: "From the Side Hill" (1925-30?)
* Set No. 7: "Water Colors" (1925-30?)
* Set No. 8: "Songs without Voices" (1930?); derived from Set No. 5
* Set No. 9 of Three Pieces (1934)
* Set No. 10 of Three Pieces (1934) [There are also two more chamber sets assembled in 1934 that are found listed in the same Work-List of Compositions.]
* Set for Theatre Orchestra (1915)

Overtures

* "Alcott Overture" (1904, mostly lost)
* "Emerson Overture for Piano and Orchestra" or "Emerson Concerto" (1911–12, incomplete)
* "Matthew Arnold Overture" (1912, inc.)
* Overture and March: "1776" (1904, rev. 1910)
* Overture in G Minor (1899, inc.)
* Overture: "Nationals" (1915, mostly lost)
* "Robert Browning Overture" (1914, rev. 1942)

Marches

* "Holiday Quickstep" (1887)
* March No. 2, with "Son of a Gambolier" (1895?)
* March No. 3 in F and C (1893?, inc.)
* March No. 3, with "My Old Kentucky Home" (1895?)
* March No. 4 in F and C (1894?, inc.)
* "The Circus Band" (1898)

Others

* "Central Park in the Dark" (1906, rev. 1936)
* "Chromâtimelôdtune" (1923?)
* "Country Band" March (1905?, rev. 1914, inc.)
* "The General Slocum" (1910?, inc.)
* "The Gong on the Hook and Ladder" (1934)
* Piece for Small Orchestra and Organ (1905?, mostly lost)
* "The Pond" (1906, rev. 1913)
* Postlude in F (1899?)
* Three Ragtime Dances (1911, mostly lost)
* Four Ragtime Dances (?)
* Nine Ragtime Pieces (1902?, mostly lost)
* "The Rainbow" (1914)
* "Skit for Danbury Fair" (1909, inc.)
* "Take-Off No. 7: Mike Donlin-Johnny Evers" (1907, inc.)
* "Take-Off No. 8: Willy Keeler at Bat" (1907, inc.)
* "Tone Roads et al." (1915?)
* "The Unanswered Question" (1908, rev. 1935)
* "Yale-Princeton Football Game" (1899, inc.)

Band

* Fantasia on "Jerusalem the Golden" (1888)
* March in F and C, with "Omega Lambda Chi" (1896)
* March "Intercollegiate," with "Annie Lisle" (1892)
* "Runaway Horse on Main Street" (1908, mostly lost)
* Schoolboy March in D and F, Op. 1 (1886, mostly lost)

Chamber/Instrumental

;String quartet
* String Quartet No. 1: "From the Salvation Army" (1900)
* String Quartet No. 2 (1913)
* Pre-First Sonata for Violin and Piano (1913);Violin sonata
* Violin Sonata No. 1 (1917?)
* Violin Sonata No. 2 (1917?)
* Violin Sonata No. 3 (1914?)
* Violin Sonata No. 4: "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting" (1916);Other
* "Decoration Day" (1919)
* "From the Steeples and the Mountains" (1901)
* Fugue in B-flat (1895?, inc.)
* Fugue in D (1895?, mostly lost)
* Fugue in Four Greek Modes (1897, inc.)
* Fugue in Four Keys on "The Shining Shore" (1903?, inc.)
* "Hallowe'en" (1914)
* "In Re Con Moto et al." (1916)
* Largo for Violin and Piano (1901)
* Largo for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano (1934? arrangement of Largo for violin and piano)
* Largo Risoluto No. 1 (1909)
* Largo Risoluto No. 2 (1910)
* "An Old Song Deranged" (1903)
* Piece in G for String Quartet (1891?)
* Polonaise (1887, inc.)
* "Practice for String Quartet in Holding Your Own!" (1903)
* Prelude on "Eventide" (1908)
* Scherzo: "All the Way Around and Back" (1908)
* Scherzo: "Over the Pavements" (1910)
* Scherzo for String Quartet (1904)
* "A Set of Three Short Pieces" (1935?)
* Take-Off No. 3: "Rube Trying to Walk 2 to 3!!" (1909)
* Trio for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano (1907, rev. 1915)

Keyboard

* Variations on "America", for organ (1891) (arranged for orchestra by William Schuman and also arranged for piano solo by Lowell Liebermann)
* Piano Sonata No. 1
* Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord"