Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... themes sketched out in advance, but he often composed whole sections out of their eventual order; especially well known is the fact that he put together the Piano Variations and the Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson only after completing ...
... theme a boy's essential unworthiness and his consequent need to prove his worth before his parents, God, and mankind. Copland would later describe Goldfarb as “a composer of liturgical music and the possessor of a fine baritone voice ...
... Theme and Variations for piano, which is of interest because its main theme, in its compression, looks ahead to the Piano Variations (1930); and a song a la Victor Herbert about the “innocent days of childhood.” He also planned an ...
... theme. Although conservative in his musical tastes, Schaffer sympathized with Copland's growing daring and understood that Scriabin and other moderns offered “endless vistas.” A month after receiving Copland's settings of his three ...
... theme might have been written by Gershwin. Although completed in July, during his first month in Paris, Copland began the work in Brooklyn, thus contradicting the notions that Music for the Theatre (1925) represents his first work in a ...
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 |