Charles Ive's composition has a unique legacy, which is presented in his songs. It is innovative experience to interpret Ives songs as they comprise of a variety of qualities of the melodic and traditional music, such as the American folk tunes. Charles has written the most radical music of the world over the decades. The song Charlie Rutlage and the song Soliloquy presents almost the same ideas, thoughts, and theme. Most of the songs characteristics are similar as well.
Lyrics of the song Charlie Rutlage
The main character of the story is Charlie Rutlage. The story and idea of the song revolves around the Charlie and his friends. The song begins by recalling the dead cowpunchers. and tells the story of a cowboy as spoken by his friend. The lyric describes the story in such a way that they interpret the ideas, thoughts and feelings of Charles Ive.
Ideas Charles expressed through lyrics
Charles' lyrics for the song Charlie Rutlage gives an idea of the Charles sensitivity, consciousness and hope towards nature. He talks about the life and death, the friendship, and the grief of losing friends, then expresses the hope that a dead friend will meet his dead loving ones in the heaven. Charles Ives expresses both the positive and negative feeling in the text. The idea is quite simple as the Charles is telling the story of his cowboy friend who died falling from the horse, here the Ives' distress about the fate that everyone has to die, then, Charles tell about the other two friends who were brave and tough had already dead, whereas Charlie Rutlage was the third one to die. The feeling of grieve and distress suddenly turns into a hope when he says that the friends will meet again after the death in the heaven. The Charles' idea about the nature is quite optimistic and he is hopeful for everything that comes across in life and even after the death. The main idea of this song is Charles' optimism towards nature and hope for the future.
Lyrics of Soliloquy
The main character is an old man, who is thinking about death and remembering his family. The lyric of the song soliloquy tells the story in such a way that it gives an idea of Ives' consciousness, grieve , and hope, which is expressed by the old man's story who is near to die.
Ideas Charles expressed through lyrics
The song when it says that a man was sitting in front of the fire on hearth, it expresses the Charles love with the Natural affairs of life and the day to day experiences of life. Then, the man witnesses a hail storm out from the window, expresses how much he fears of the natural disasters and then expresses his thought of the Nature can not be disposed so easily. The song expresses the similar ideas as in the song Charlie Rutlage. The natural feelings of losing life and the loving ones are expressed through the ...
