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Fanfare For The Common Man
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Author : Aaron Copland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
Fanfare For The Common Man written by Aaron Copland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with Brass ensembles categories.
Fanfare For The Common Man
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Author : Aaron Copland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
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Fanfare For The Common Man
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Author : A. Copland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
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The Films Of Martin Ritt
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Author : Gabriel Miller
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2000
The Films Of Martin Ritt written by Gabriel Miller and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with United States categories.
Music For The Common Man
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Author : Elizabeth B. Crist
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-12
Music For The Common Man written by Elizabeth B. Crist and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-12 with History categories.
In the 1930s, Aaron Copland began to write in an accessible style he described as "imposed simplicity." Works like El Salón México, Billy the Kid, Lincoln Portrait, and Appalachian Spring feature a tuneful idiom that brought the composer unprecedented popular success and came to define an American sound. Yet the cultural substance of that sound--the social and political perspective that might be heard within these familiar pieces--has until now been largely overlooked. While it has long been acknowledged that Copland subscribed to leftwing ideals, Music for the Common Man is the first sustained attempt to understand some of Copland's best-known music in the context of leftwing social, political, and cultural currents of the Great Depression and Second World War. Musicologist Elizabeth Crist argues that Copland's politics never merely accorded with mainstream New Deal liberalism, wartime patriotism, and Communist Party aesthetic policy, but advanced a progressive vision of American society and culture. Copland's music can be heard to accord with the political tenets of progressivism in the 1930s and '40s, including a fundamental sensitivity toward those less fortunate, support of multiethnic pluralism, belief in social democracy, and faith that America's past could be put in service of a better future. Crist explores how his works wrestle with the political complexities and cultural contradictions of the era by investing symbols of America--the West, folk song, patriotism, or the people--with progressive social ideals. Much as been written on the relationship between politics and art in the 1930s and '40s, but very little on concert music of the era. Music for the Common Man offers fresh insights on familiar pieces and the political context in which they emerged.
An American Idea
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Author : Sarah Anne Melton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
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Amidst the threat of World War II, President Roosevelt and his administration sought to unite Americans around the war effort by celebrating American ideas. Using concepts from his speeches and fireside chats, as well as official documents such as The Atlantic Charter, Roosevelt engaged Americans with rhetoric and language describing a wholly democratic world liberated by America's Four Freedoms-freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. After Pearl Harbor, Americans gained strength and motivation from these words and ideas, believing that the conflict allowed the United States to lead the world in a quest for universal peace and social welfare. Speeches, such as Vice President Wallace's "The Price of Free World Victory: The Century of the Common Man," echoed Roosevelt's international agenda and reached working-class citizens in the United States, many of whom became inspired by New Deal rhetoric concerning the quest for worldwide peace and social justice. Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, originally composed as a contribution to Conductor Eugene Goossens's Fanfare series for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's 1942-1943 season, stands as a lasting symbol of an American idea during this time. By employing the rhetoric of Wallace's speech in his title, Copland effectively adapted a genre historically employed in Britain to introduce and honor members of royalty to instead salute and pay tribute to the largest, most ordinary demographic, the common man. Fanfare for the Common Man, conceived at the hands of an American composer and commissioned by a British conductor, reflects the international agendas of the United States and Great Britain during World War II, yet does so in a uniquely American way that emphasizes the United States' commitment in the 1930s and '40s to equality and social welfare for all. This study examines social, historical, and political perspectives of Copland's contribution to the Goossens Fanfares, focusing on the circumstances surrounding the Fanfare's conception, the socio-political climate that motivated its creation, and the wartime rhetoric that formed the basis for the Fanfare's title. It also observes the ways that Copland modified and adapted the fanfare genre during a time of international conflict by selecting a poignant and appropriate title reflective of President Roosevelt's determination to spread the American form of Social Democracy abroad and the general wartime sensibility of the country during World War II.
Excerpts From Appalachian Spring
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07
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(Boosey & Hawkes Concert Band). Written in 1943-44 as a ballet for Martha Graham, Appalachian Spring is one of Aaron Copland's most celebrated compositions and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1945. In this edition for concert band, Robert Longfield has skillfully adapted the most striking and beautiful sections from the orchestral suite. The work ranges in scope from delicate and soloistic to the overpowering force of the full ensemble, culminating with Copland's signature setting of "Simple Gifts." A wonderful opportunity for band members and their audiences to enjoy this beloved music from one of America's preeminent composers. Dur: 8:00
Aaron Copland
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Author : Howard Pollack
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2000
Aaron Copland written by Howard Pollack and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Features the biography of Aaron Copland, his life, and his music.
Dvorak S Prophecy And The Vexed Fate Of Black Classical Music
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Author : Joseph Horowitz
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2021-11-23
Dvorak S Prophecy And The Vexed Fate Of Black Classical Music written by Joseph Horowitz and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-23 with Music categories.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonín Dvorák prophesied a “great and noble school” of American classical music based on the “negro melodies” he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would foster popular genres known the world over, it never gained a foothold in the concert hall. Black composers found few opportunities to have their works performed, and white composers mainly rejected Dvorák’s lead. Joseph Horowitz ranges throughout American cultural history, from Frederick Douglass and Huckleberry Finn to George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and the work of Ralph Ellison, searching for explanations. Challenging the standard narrative for American classical music fashioned by Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, he looks back to literary figures—Emerson, Melville, and Twain—to ponder how American music can connect with a “usable past.” The result is a new paradigm that makes room for Black composers, including Harry Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett, William Levi Dawson, and Florence Price, while giving increased prominence to Charles Ives and George Gershwin. Dvorák’s Prophecy arrives in the midst of an important conversation about race in America—a conversation that is taking place in music schools and concert halls as well as capitols and boardrooms. As George Shirley writes in his foreword to the book, “We have been left unprepared for the current cultural moment. [Joseph Horowitz] explains how we got there [and] proposes a bigger world of American classical music than what we have known before. It is more diverse and more equitable. And it is more truthful.”
Music Of America
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Author : Aaron Copland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
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