His American music was not just about folk celebrations. In , Goossens commissioned a total of 18 fanfares from various American composers in response to the U. The world premiere was March 12, , during income tax time to honor the common man.
His works ranged from ballets, orchestra works, motion picture scores, and chamber music. CMUSE is a participant of the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program — it is designed to provide an aid for the websites in earning an advertisement fee — by means of advertising and linking to Amazon. CMUSE is your music news and entertainment website. We provide you with the latest breaking news and videos straight from the music industry.
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Aaron Copland 20th-century-United States. In his own words. These thoughts and emotions are gradually formed by the contact of the composer's personality with the world in which he lives.
He expresses these thoughts musical ones. The resultant work of art should speak to men and women of the artist's own time with a directness and immediacy of communicative power that no previous art expression can give.
American composer, conductor and author. Copland helped define a twentieth-century American sound. His influence on his contemporaries and students has been tremendous. Playing with Glass.
Newsletter Subscription. Contact Us. By continuing to browse this site, you are agreeing to the use of cookies. Sure, they could be prettied up - but how American would that be? Listen: Rodeo: Buckaroo Holiday. Textures Copland's famous "plainness" shows up in the way he organizes his musical material. Think of the mileage he gets out of the simplest intervals in Fanfare for the Common Man.
Or take the beginning of Appalachian Spring. Instead of one continuous melody, Copland writes brief phrases for different instruments, separated by rests - "open" melody, that can seem to evoke the openness of the American landscape. Listen: beginning of Appalachian Spring.
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