Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland Aaron Copland (, ; November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist, and conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as the "Dean of American Composers". The open, slowly changing harmonies in much of his music are typical of what many consider the sound of American music, evoking the vast American landscape and pioneer spirit. He is best known for the works he wrote in the 1930s and 1940s in a deliberately accessible style often referred to as "populist" and which he called his "vernacular" style. Works in this vein include the ballets ''Appalachian Spring'', ''Billy the Kid'' and ''Rodeo'', his ''Fanfare for the Common Man'' and Third Symphony. In addition to his ballets and orchestral works, he produced music in many other genres, including chamber music, vocal works, opera, and film scores.

After some initial studies with composer Rubin Goldmark, Copland traveled to Paris, where he first studied with Isidor Philipp and Paul Vidal, then with noted pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. He studied three years with Boulanger, whose eclectic approach to music inspired his own broad taste. Determined upon his return to the U.S. to make his way as a full-time composer, Copland gave lecture-recitals, wrote works on commission and did some teaching and writing. But he found that composing orchestral music in a modernist style, which he had adopted while studying abroad, was unprofitable, particularly in light of the Great Depression. He shifted in the mid-1930s to a more accessible musical style that mirrored the German idea of ("music for use"), music that could serve utilitarian and artistic purposes. During the Depression years, he traveled extensively to Europe, Africa, and Mexico, formed an important friendship with Mexican composer Carlos Chávez, and began composing his signature works.

During the late 1940s, Copland became aware that Stravinsky and other fellow composers had begun to study Arnold Schoenberg's use of twelve-tone (serial) techniques. After he had been exposed to the works of French composer Pierre Boulez, he incorporated serial techniques into his ''Piano Quartet'' (1950), ''Piano Fantasy'' (1957), ''Connotations'' for orchestra (1961), and ''Inscape'' for orchestra (1967). Unlike Schoenberg, Copland used his tone rows in much the same fashion as his tonal material—as sources for melodies and harmonies, rather than as complete statements in their own right, except for crucial events from a structural point of view. From the 1960s onward, Copland's activities turned more from composing to conducting. He became a frequent guest conductor of orchestras in the U.S. and the UK and made a series of recordings of his music, primarily for Columbia Records. Provided by Wikipedia
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    The red pony by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    Format: Audio


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    What do we plant? by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    [New York] : Boosey Hawkes Belwin, 1941
    Format: Musical Score Book


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    Scherzo humoristique : le chat et la souris : pour piano 2 mains by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    Paris : A. Durand, 1921
    Format: Musical Score Book


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    The cat and the mouse : [scherzo humoristique] : piano solo by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    New York : Boosey & Hawkes, 1950
    Format: Musical Score Book


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    Three Latin-American sketches by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    [Place of publication not identified] : Boosey & Hawkes, 1976
    Miniature score edition.
    Format: Musical Score Book


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    Concerto for clarinet and string orchestra, with harp and piano by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    London ; New York : Boosey & Hawkes, 1952
    Format: Musical Score Book


  7. 87

    Inscape by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    New York, N.Y. : New World Records, 2005
    Format: Audio


  8. 88

    Clarinet concerto by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    [S.l.] : New York, NY : RCA Victor Red Seal ; Manufactured and distributed by BMG Music, 1993
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    Format: CD Audio


  9. 89

    El salón México ; Concerto for clarinet ; Music for the theatre ; Connotations by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon, 1991
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  10. 90

    Old American songs : complete : medium voice (original keys) by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    New York : Milwaukee : Boosey & Hawkes ; Hal Leonard, 2009
    New ed.
    Other Authors: “…Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990…”
    Format: Musical Score Book


  11. 91

    Copland on music. by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1960
    [1st ed.].
    Format: Book


  12. 92

    On Aaron Copland : the man and his music by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    New York, NY : RCA Victor Red Seal : Distribution in the U.S. by BMG Distribution, 2000
    Other Authors: “…Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990…”
    Format: Audio


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    Las agachadas (The shake-down song) by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    [New York], [London], [Boosey, Hawkes, Belwin, Inc.]; [Boosey & Hawkes], 1942
    Format: Musical Score Book


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    Appalachian spring : (Ballet for Martha) by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    [London] : Boosey & Hawkes, 1945
    Format: Musical Score Book


  15. 95

    Copland the modernist. by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    New York, N.Y. : RCA Victor Red Seal, 1996
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    Format: Audio


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    Music for the theatre ; Three Latin American sketches ; Quiet city ; Appalachian spring by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    Germany : Teldec, 1991
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    Format: CD Audio


  17. 97

    Danzón cubano ; El salón México by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    [New York] : Sony Classical, 1992
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    Format: CD Audio


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    Rodeo, ballet in one act. by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    London, New York, Boosey & Hawkes 1962
    Format: Musical Score Book


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    Appalachian spring by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    [Franklin, Tennessee] : Naxos, 2016
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    Format: Audio


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    Quiet city : trumpet and English horn (or oboe and strings) by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    [London] ; [New York] : Boosey & Hawkes, 1941
    Format: Musical Score Book