Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... melodies for the Hebrew prayer “Adon Olom”; Four Motets for chorus (1921), based on Psalmodic fragments; the piano trio Vitebsk (1928), inspired by Ansky's famous play The Dybbuk, about social oppression and redemption in a Russian ...
... melody; the melismatic “Ah's suggest some awareness of the Mascagni original as well, but only vaguely.” In 1916, Copland produced the beginnings of a piano piece, Valse Impromptu, a Schubertian effort again hampered by a restricted ...
... melodies from Schumann's Papillons, Carnival, and Kreisleriana—presumably for himself and his cellist friend Arne Vainio to play. And after arriving in Europe, he developed an enthusiasm for more recent German and Austrian composers ...
... melody, one sung to the hymn “Adon Olom” on particularly sad occasions. The piece, marked “Mournfully, very slowly,” at one point has a passage, “with 35 longing,” that features the same sighing appoggiaturas found in “My Heart ...
... melody that accompanies the words “Alack and woe, that love is so akin to pain.” Taken as a whole, Copland's early music gives the impression of someone thoroughly absorbed by romantic yearning. In addition, he dedicated his Sonnet I ...
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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 |