The compositions of American composer Charles Ives (1874–1954) are mostly modern classical music. Ives was prolific, revised works multiple times, and left ambiguous fragments with no title or notes. A chronology of works is especially difficult because of missing and sometimes misleading dates;^[1] as Elliott Carter put it in 1939: " has rewritten his works so many times, adding dissonances and polyrhythms, that it is impossible to tell just at what date the works assumed the surprising form we know now."^[2]

This list follows James B. Sinclair's A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives.^[3] It does not include fragments or projected works.

Orchestra

Symphonies

• Symphony No. 1 in D minor (1898–1902)
• Symphony No. 2 (1897–1902, revised 1910)
• Symphony No. 3: The Camp Meeting (1901–1904, rev. 1911)
• Symphony No. 4 (1916)
• A Symphony: New England Holidays (1919)
• Universe Symphony (1928, unfinished)

Sets

For orchestra

• Orchestral Set No. 1: Three Places in New England (1912–16, revised 1929)
• Orchestral Set No. 2 (1909–19)
• Orchestral Set No. 3 (fragments only; 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?
• Set No. 3 (At Sea – Luck and Work – Premonitions, 1917)
• Set No. 4, Three Poets and Human Nature – projected only
• Set No. 5, The Other Side of Pioneering, or Side Lights on American Enterprise – projected only
• Set No. 6, From the Side Hill – projected only
• Set No. 7, Water Colors – projected or lost
• Set No. 8, Songs Without Voices – projected only
• Set No. 9 of Three Pieces (The Last Reader – The See'r – The Unanswered Question, 1934)
• Set No. 10 of Three Pieces (Like a Sick Eagle – Luck and Work – The Indians, 1934)
• Set for Theatre Orchestra (1915)

Overtures

• Alcott Overture (1904, inc., but re-used for the third movement of Piano Sonata No.2)
• Emerson Overture for Piano and Orchestra or Emerson Concerto (1911–12, incomplete, but re-used for the first movement of Piano Sonata No.2)
• Matthew Arnold Overture (1912, inc.)
• Overture and March: 1776 (1904, rev. 1910; re-used in "Putnam's Camp" from Three Places in New England and Holidays Symphony)
• Overture in G Minor (1899, inc.)
• Overture: Nationals (1915, inc. sketches; adapted from Overture and March: 1776; )
• Robert Browning Overture (1914, rev. 1942)

Marches

• Holiday Quickstep (1887)
• Country Band March ((Sketched 1903), rev. 1912, inc. – used in "Putnam's Camp")
• 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

• Hymn: Largo cantabile, from A Set of Three Short Pieces (1904)
• Central Park in the Dark (1906, rev. 1936)
• Chromâtimelôdtune (1923?)
• Quarter-Tone Chorale for Strings (1914, lost)^[4]
• The General Slocum (1910?, inc.)
• The Gong on the Hook and Ladder or Firemen's Parade on Main Street (1911)
• 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?)
  • Tone Roads No. 1 (1911)
  • Tone Roads No. 2 (1915?, lost)
  • Tone Roads No. 3 (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, inc.)
• 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)

Violin sonata

• Pre-First Sonata for Violin and Piano (1913)
• 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.)
• Hymn: Largo cantabile, from A Set of Three Short Pieces (1904)
• Hallowe'en (1914)
• In Re Con Moto et al. (1916), for violin, viola, bass, and piano, world premiere given in February 1966 at Carnegie Hall^[5]
• 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

Works for piano

Sonatas

• Three Page Sonata (1905)
• Piano Sonata No. 1 (1909)
• Piano Sonata No. 2 (Concord) (1915)

Studies

• 27 Studies for piano, 8 lost^[6][7][8]
  • Study No. 1: Allegro (incomplete)
  • Study No. 2: Andante moderato–Allegro molto (Varied Air and Variations)
  • Study No. 3: (lost)
  • Study No. 4: Allegro moderato (incomplete)
  • Study No. 5: Moderato con anima
  • Study No. 6: Andante (1907–1909)
  • Study No. 7: Andante cantabile (1907)
  • Study No. 8: Trio (Allegro moderato–Presto) (1907)
  • Study No. 9: The Anti-Abolitionist Riots in the 1830s and 1840s
  • Study No. 10 (mostly lost)
  • Study No. 11: Andante (incomplete)
  • Study No. 12: (lost)
  • Study No. 13: (lost)
  • Study No. 14: (lost)
  • Study No. 15: Allegro moderato (incomplete) (1907–1909; 1920s)
  • Study No. 16: Andante cantabile (incomplete) (1907–1909; 1920s)
  • Study No. 17: (lost)
  • Study No. 18: Sunrise Cadenza (Adagio) (incomplete)
  • Study No. 19 (incomplete) (1907–1909; 1920s)
  • Study No. 20: March (Slow allegro or Fast andante) (1910, 1920s)
  • Study No. 21: Some Southpaw Pitching (1918–19)
  • Study No. 22: Andante maestoso–Allegro vivace (1909)
  • Study No. 23: Allegro (1912–1914; 1920s)
  • Study No. 24: (lost)
  • Study No. 25: (lost)
  • Study No. 26: (lost)
  • Study No. 27: Chromâtimelôdtune (incomplete)

Marches

• March No. 1 for Piano, with "Year of Jubilee" (c. 1894–95)
• March No. 2 for Piano, with "Son of a Gambolier" (1895)
• March No. 3 for Piano, with "Omega Lambda Chi" (c. 1895–96)
• March No. 5 for Piano, with "Annie Lisle" (c. 1895)
• March No. 6 for Piano, with "Here's to Good Old Yale" (c. 1895–96)
• March in G and C for Piano, with "See the Conquering Hero Comes" (1896–7)
• March for Piano: The Circus Band (c. 1898–99)

Other works

• The Celestial Railroad (c. 1922–25)
• Three Improvisations (1938)
• Invention in D (c. 1898)
• Minuetto, Op. 4 (1886)
• New Year's Dance (1887)
• Piece in G Minor
• Set of Five Take-Offs (c. 1909)
• Four Transcriptions from "Emerson" (c. 1923–27)
• Varied Air and Variations (1920–22)
• Waltz–Rondo (1911)

Two pianos

• Burlesque Storm
• Drum Corps or Scuffle
• Three Quarter-Tone Pieces
• Ragtime Dances for Two Pianos

Works for organ

• Adagio in F
• "Adeste Fideles" in an Organ Prelude (c. 1903)
• Burlesque Postlude in B
• Burlesque Postlude in C
• Canzonetta in F (c. 1893–94)
• Fugue in C Minor (c. 1898)
• Fugue in E (c. 1898)
• Interludes for Hymns (1898–1901)
• Melody in E
• Postlude for Thanksgiving Service
• Variations on "America", for organ (1891) (arranged for orchestra by William Schuman and also arranged for piano solo by Lowell Liebermann)
• Voluntary in C Minor
• Voluntary in F

Vocal

Songs