Aaron Copland: The Life & Work of an Uncommon ManA candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. |
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... twelve-tone method of composition, his conducting career, and his struggle with debilitating dementia in his final years. Pollack also details Copland's achievements as critic, teacher, and lecturer, summarizing his thoughts on such ...
... twelve-tone method of composition. Even as late as her 1925 American tour, she encouraged Americans to “grapple with . . . the tremendous scope of Schoenberg” as well as “the will of a Stravinsky” and “the complexity of a Milhaud.” Only ...
... twelve-tone Wind Quintet, heard in 1926, an “outstanding failure. . . . Except for certain parts of the scherzo and the final rondo, there seemed nothing but principles and theories of composition leading to complete aridity.” Similarly ...
... twelve-tone music, wrote Copland, one may not be sure “of having gotten the message,” but “one is convinced that a new kind of musical communication is being forged.” For his part, Stravinsky singled out Copland and Walter Piston among ...
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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 |