Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland During the Depression and War by Elizabeth B. Crist

Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland During the Depression and War

Elizabeth B. Crist

272 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

music informative reflective slow-paced
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In the 1930s, Aaron Copland began to write in an accessible style he described as "imposed simplicity." Works like El Salon Mexico, Billy the Kid, Lincoln Portrait, and Appalachian Spring feature a tuneful idiom that brought the composer unprecede...

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