G. Schirmer & Associated Music Publishers is pleased to announce that a digital download of our critical edition to Charles Ives' Symphony No. 4 is now for sale by Classical On Demand.

Watch the BBC Proms performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and pianist Ralph van Raat, conducted David Robertson.

To celebrate the downloadable edition, we have compiled a chronological selection of other "American Symphonies" from across the decades, which both support and challenge the notion of an American Symphony as it manifests in the protean works of Charles Ives.

Stephen Albert
RiverRun (1983) (PULITZER PRIZE) 33 minutes
3(pic,afl)2+ca.2(Ebcl)+bcl(asx).2+cbn/4.3.3.1/timp.perc.vib/2hp.pf/str
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George Antheil
Symphony No. 3, "American" (1939, rev. 1946) 25 minutes
2.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp.3perc/str
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Elliott Carter
A Symphony of Three Orchestras (1976) 17 minutes
Orch I: 0000/3.2.2+btbn.1/timp/str(8.0.4.3.2)
Orch II: 0.0.2(bcl)+Ebcl.0/0000/chm.vib.xyl/mba/str(2.0.0.3.1)
Orch III: 2+pic.2+ca.0.2+cbn/2.0.0.0/perc/str(8.0.4.0.2)
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Carlos Chávez
Symphony No. 2, "Sinfonía India" (1935) 11 minutes
2+2pic.3.2+ebcl+bcl.3/4.2.2.0/timp.4perc/hp/str
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John Corigliano
Symphony No. 2 (2000) (PULITZER PRIZE) 40 minutes
String Orchestra (6.5.4.4.2 players minimum)
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Henry Cowell
Symphony No. 16, "Icelandic" (1962) 22 minutes
2.2.2.2/2.2.2.1/timp.2perc/hp/str
Alternate Orchestration: 3.3.3.3/4.2.2.1/timp.2perc/str
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Richard Danielpour
Symphony No. 3, "Journey Without Distance" (1990) 30 minutes
Soprano; SATB chorus; 3(pic).2(ca).3(bcl).2(cbn)/4331/timp.3perc/amp pf(cel).hp/str
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Anthony Davis
Amistad Symphony (2009) 35 minutes
Mezzo-Soprano; 4(pic)3(ca)4(2bcl)4(cbn)/4.4.2+btbn.1/timp.3perc+dmkit/hp/str
Mvt I: Esu Variations | Mvt. II: Amistad, Act II, Scene 7 | Mvt. III: Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey

David Diamond
Symphony No. 4 (1945) 16 minutes
4.4.4.4/6.4.3.1/timp.perc.xyl/2hp.pf/str
Alternate Orchestration: 3.3.3.3/4.4.3.1/timp.perc.xyl/2hp.pf/str
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Julius Eastman
Symphony No. II, "The Faithful Friend: The Lover Friend's Love for the Beloved" (1983) 22 minutes
3.2+2ca.0+3bcl+3cbcl.3+3cbn/0.0.3.3/6timp/str
Article in The New York Times | View the score

Philip Glass
Symphony No. 5, "Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya" (1999) 1 hour, 41 minutes
Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Tenor, Baritone, Bass; SATB chorus; children's choir;
2+pic.2.2+Ebcl+bcl.2/4.3.2+btbn.1/4perc/hp.pf/str
Listen on Spotify | View the score: Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3

John Harbison
Symphony No. 3 (1990) 24 minutes
3(pic).3(ca).3(bcl).3(cbn)/4.3.3.1/timp.4perc/pf/str
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Charles Ives
Symphony No. 3, "The Camp Meeting" (1904) (PULITZER PRIZE, 1947) 22 minutes
1.1.1.1/2.2.0.0/bells/str
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Aaron Jay Kernis
Symphony No. 4, "Chromelodeon" (2018) 26 minutes
3(pic).3(ca).3(Ebcl,bcl).3(cbn)/4.3.2+btbn.1/timp.5perc/hp.pf(cel)/str
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Florence Price
Symphony No. 3 in C Minor (1940) 22 minutes
3+pic.2+ca.2+bcl.2/4.3.3.1/timp.perc/hp/str
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Gunther Schuller
Symphony for Brass and Percussion (1950) 18 minutes
4hn, 6tpt, 3tbn, bar, 2tba, timp, 2perc
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William Schuman
Symphony No. 6 (1948) 27 minutes
3(pic)2+ca.2+bcl.2+cbn/4331/timp.2[+1]perc/str
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William Grant Still
Afro-American Symphony (1930) 24 minutes
3(pic).3.4.2/4.3.3.1/timp.3perc/hp.cel.bjo/str
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Carlos Surinach
Sinfonia Chica [Small Symphony] (1957) 16 minutes
2.2.2.2/2.1.0.0/timp.perc/str
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Tan Dun
Heaven Earth Mankind (Symphony 1997) (1997) 65 minutes
Children's Chorus; solo cello; bianzhong bells; 2(2pic).2.2(bcl).2(cbn)/4.3.3.1/4perc/hp.pf/str; tape
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Olly Wilson
Hold On (Symphony No. 3) (1998) 40 minutes
2+pic+afl.2+ca.2+bcl.2/4.3(pictpt).3.1/timp.3perc/pf.hp/str
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Symphony No. 1 (Three Movements for Orchestra) (1982) (PULITZER PRIZE) 18 minutes
2(pic).2(ca).2(bcl).2(cbn)/4.2.3.1/timp.3perc/pf.hp/str
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(November 2019)