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Appalachian Spring
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Browse piano sheets by Aaron Copland on Zen Virtual Piano. Aaron Copland was an American composer whose work joined concert music with popular idioms. Studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris sharpened his interest in those possibilities. After returning to the United States, he promoted new music through lectures, writing and the Copland-Sessions concerts. His professional life also included conducting, organizing performances and writing books about music. Appalachian Spring grew from his collaboration with choreographer Martha Graham, supported by patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Graham supplied the initial story and scenario, and correspondence between composer and choreographer shows how they shaped the ballet together. Its frontier setting appealed to Copland, whose music included hymnlike melodies, fiddle tunes and variations on the Shaker tune Simple Gifts. The score received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1945. Copland arranged a concert suite that year and a full symphonic version of the complete score in 1954. His other compositions included Rodeo and Fanfare for the Common Man.
Browse piano sheets by Aaron Copland on Zen Virtual Piano.
Aaron Copland was an American composer whose work joined concert music with popular idioms. Studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris sharpened his interest in those possibilities. After returning to the United States, he promoted new music through lectures, writing and the Copland-Sessions concerts. His professional life also included conducting, organizing performances and writing books about music.
Appalachian Spring grew from his collaboration with choreographer Martha Graham, supported by patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Graham supplied the initial story and scenario, and correspondence between composer and choreographer shows how they shaped the ballet together. Its frontier setting appealed to Copland, whose music included hymnlike melodies, fiddle tunes and variations on the Shaker tune Simple Gifts.
The score received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1945. Copland arranged a concert suite that year and a full symphonic version of the complete score in 1954. His other compositions included Rodeo and Fanfare for the Common Man.
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He conducted, organized concerts and promoted new music through lectures and writings. After returning from Paris, he helped organize the Copland-Sessions concerts.
Graham supplied the initial story and scenario. Their correspondence records a give-and-take between choreographer and composer as the ballet took its final shape.
He arranged an orchestral concert suite in 1945, the same year the score received the Pulitzer Prize for Music. In 1954, he made a full symphonic version of the complete score.