The symphony has many influences including War songs, dances, and general European classical music. It evokes country meetings during his childhood, when people gathered in fields to sing, preach, and listen. Ives was sentimentally nostalgic, glancing back as a modern composer at a nineteenth-century childhood of hymns, bells, and children's games throughout the three movements. The symphony is filled with complex harmonies and meters.
| Date of composition | 1901 (revised in 1911) in New York, NY, United States |
| Premiered | 1946, April 5th in New York, NY, United States |
| Type | Symphony |
| Tonality | B-flat Major |
| Catalogue | S. 3 |
| Approx. duration | 20 minutes |
| Instruments | Orchestra |
| Autotranslations beta |
Charles Ives: Symphonie n°3 en si bémol majeur, S. 3 "The Camp Meeting" Charles Ives: Sinfonia n. 3 in si bemolle maggiore, S. 3 "The Camp Meeting" Charles Ives: Sinfonie Nr. 3 B-dur, S. 3 "The Camp Meeting" |