Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... solo piano piece, Moment Musicale—a Tone Poem, inspired by a poem, “Fear,” by his friend Aaron Schaffer. The music awkwardly pieces together little ideas derived from Beethoven, Liszt, and Tchaikovsky before veering off into some ...
... solo piano as a graduation piece. Completed in 1921, this sonata demonstrated a capable handling of Romantic technique and rhetoric, like the music of such established Americans as Arthur Foote, Amy Beach, or Goldmark himself. Still ...
... solo piano piece based on yet another poem, this one, however, old and humorous: Jean de la Fontaine's “Le Vieux Chat et la Jeune Souris” (“The Old Cat and the Young Mouse”). Upon hearing him play this work in a recital in Fontainebleau ...
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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 |