The Music of Aaron Copland - 9780907689072

The Music of Aaron CoplandAuthor(s): Neil Butterworth\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Toccata Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Toccata Press\nISBN-13: 9780907689072, 978-0907689072\nSynopsis\nFirst survey of Copland's entire output for some 30 years - a period seeing some of his most important works.\n\nAaron Copland was one of the twentieth century's most popular and distinguished composers. Copland was born in 1900 in Brooklyn, where he began his musical career, before moving to the Paris in the 1920s, where Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Les Six were the centre of attention. On his return to the United States at the end of the decade he began to produce a series of works which could leave no one in any doubt that American composers were capable of writing music equal to the best of their European contemporaries.\n\nThis chronological survey of Copland's work discusses ever one of his compositions and examines his influential writings on music. Profusely illustrated with musicexamples and .