Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... Appalachian Spring, and The Red Pony. But the full richness of Copland's accomplishments and the life that lay behind them have rarely been appreciated, and have never, until now, been thoroughly scrutinized and documented. Howard ...
... Appalachian Spring (1943–44) 378 22. From “Jubilee Variation” to Four Piano Blues (1945–48) 407 23. From The Red Pony to the Piano Quartet (1948–50) 428 24. The Changing Scene 451 25. From Old American Songs to the Piano Fantasy (1950 ...
... Appalachian Spring and Our Town, which I think of as a self-portrait of Aaron. No conspicuous consumption.” If he showed a greater interest in having stylish furnishings or nice wines in his later, more prosperous years, he did so ...
... Appalachian Spring, set the sacred Christian songs “Simple Gifts,” “At the River,” and “Zion's Walls” in Old American Songs, and quoted “Amazing Grace” in Emblems. In general, his music seemed to evoke Protestant hymns as often as it ...
... Appalachian Spring).” The instrumental works from this period are, in comparison, less finished but of some interest in their own right, least so, perhaps, the flashy Waltz Caprice for piano (1918), a crude amalgam of Liszt and Debussy ...
Contents
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6 From Sonata Movement to Grohg 192124 | 76 |
7 Return and Rediscovery | 88 |
8 The Usable Past | 107 |
19 Music for the Movies and for Keyboard 193941 | 336 |
20 From Lincoln Portrait to Danzόn Cubano 1942 | 357 |
21 From The North Star to Appalachian Spring 194344 | 378 |
22 From Jubilee Variation to Four Piano Blues 194548 | 407 |
23 From The Red Pony to the Piano Quartet 194850 | 428 |
24 The Changing Scene | 451 |
25 From Old American Songs to the Piano Fantasy 195057 | 467 |
26 From Dance Panels to Connotations 195962 | 486 |
9 From the Organ Symphony to Vocalise 192428 | 121 |
10 From Vitebsk to the Piano Variations 192830 | 142 |
11 Copland Among His Peers | 159 |
12 Copland and Younger American Composers | 178 |
13 South of the Border | 216 |
14 Personal Affairs | 234 |
15 Copland and the American Theater | 257 |
16 An Engaged Citizen | 270 |
17 From the Short Symphony to A Prairie Journal 193337 | 288 |
18 From Billy the Kid to John Henry 193840 | 314 |
27 From Emblems to Proclamation 196482 | 503 |
28 Identity Issues | 518 |
29 The Later Years | 532 |
Conclusion | 550 |
List of Works | 557 |
Notes | 564 |
Selected Bibliography | 664 |
Index | 671 |