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The selected correspondence of Aaron Copland
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ISBN: 128172291X 9786611722913 0300133472 9780300133479 0300111215 9780300111217 9780300111217 0300111215 9781281722911 6611722912 Year: 2006 Publisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press,

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This is the first book devoted to the correspondence of composer Aaron Copland, covering his life from age eight to eighty-seven. The chronologically arranged collection includes letters to many significant figures in American twentieth-century music as well as Copland's friends, family, teachers, and colleagues. Selected for readability, interest, and the light they cast upon the composer's thoughts and career, the letters are carefully annotated and each published in its entirety.Copland was a gifted and natural letter writer who revealed much more about himself in his letters than in formal writings in which he was conscious of his position as spokesman for modern music. The collected letters offer insights into his music, personality, and ideas, along with fascinating glimpses into the lives of such other well-known musicians as Leonard Bernstein, Carlos Chávez, William Schuman, and Virgil Thomson.

Music for the common man : Aaron Copland during the depression and war
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ISBN: 1281826081 9786611826086 0199724296 9780199724291 9780195151572 0195151577 9780195383591 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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Introduction. 1. Expanding Americaural Front. 3. Creating Community. 4. ""The Dancing of an Attitude"". 5. In Wartime. Conclusion


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The American Stravinsky : the style and aesthetics of Copland's new American music, the early works, 1921-1938
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ISBN: 0472125044 0472069845 Year: 2012 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,

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One of the country's most enduringly successful composers, Aaron Copland created a distinctively American style and aesthetic in works for a diversity of genres and mediums, including ballet, opera, and film. Also active as a critic, mentor, advocate, and concert organizer, he played a decisive role in the growth of serious music in the Americas in the twentieth century. In The American Stravinsky, Gayle Murchison closely analyzes selected works to discern the specific compositional techniques Copland used, and to understand the degree to which they derived from European models, particularly the influence of Igor Stravinsky. Murchison examines how Copland both Americanized these models and made them his own, thereby finding his own compositional voice. Murchison also discusses Copland's aesthetics of music and his ideas about its purpose and social function.


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Unsettled scores : politics, Hollywood, and the film music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler
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ISBN: 025205167X 9780252051678 9780252042812 0252042816 9780252084645 0252084640 Year: 2020 Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press,

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The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier producer of America's potent mass culture. Drawn by Hollywood's potential to reach - and edify - the public, Copland and Eisler expertly wove sophisticated musical ideas into Hollywood and, each in their own distinctive way, left an indelible mark on movie history. Sally Bick's dual study of Copland and Eisler pairs interpretations of their writings on film composing with a close examination of their first Hollywood projects: Copland's music for Of Mice and Men and Eisler's score for Hangmen Also Die! Bick illuminates the different ways the composers treated a film score as means of expressing their political ideas on society, capitalism, and the human condition.

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