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1. What to Listen For in Music by Aaron Copland | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2009-03-03)
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You don't need this book if you already love Copland's music
Too chit chatty
For beginners
an ear opener
Great for beginners |
2. Aaron Copland and His World (The Bard Music Festival) | |
Paperback: 568
Pages
(2005-08-01)
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3. What to Listen for in Music (Mentor) by Aaron Copland | |
Mass Market Paperback: 192
Pages
(1967)
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Pretty abysmal |
4. Music and Imagination (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Aaron Copland | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(1980-08-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description One of the most forthright and talented of American composers writes here of the part played by the freely imaginative mind in composing, performing, and listening to music. He urges more frequent performance and more sensitive hearing of the music of new composers. He discusses sound media, new and old, and looks toward a musical future in which the timbres and intensities developed by the electronic engineer may find their musical shape and meaning. He considers the twentieth-century revolt against classical form and tonality, and the recent disturbing political interference with the form and content of music. He analyzes American and contemporary European music and the flowering of specifically Western imagination in Villa-Lobos and Charles Ives. The final chapter is an account, partially autobiographical, of the composer who seeks to find, in an industrial society like that of the United States, justification for the life of art in the life about him. Mr. Copeland, whose spectacular success in arriving at a musical vernacular has brought him a wide audience, will acquire as many readers as he has listeners with this imaginatively written book. Customer Reviews (3)
Keeping in mind that this is based on lectures given by Copland
short but profound
To learn to listen |
5. Art Songs and Arias: Medium/Low Voice (Boosey & Hawkes Voice) | |
Paperback: 88
Pages
(2007-09-01)
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6. Aaron Copland: THE LIFE AND WORK OF AN UNCOMMON MAN (Music in American Life) by Howard Pollack | |
Paperback: 728
Pages
(2000-03-08)
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AN AWESOME WORK ON ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST COMPOSERS
Profile of a couregous and talented composer
Great approach and thorough biography
Modish in parts, but still an essential guide to Copland Amazingly, between 1955 and the present volume not a single comprehensive study of Copland's life, by an outsider (as distinct from Copland's own explications of his aesthetic), appeared. "Essential" biographies of someone or other emerge, if we are to believe the book trade's spin-doctors, at least once every week; the account under review actually deserves this adjective. Its author (Professor of Music at the University of Houston) shows his love for Copland's oeuvre on every page, which helps; here is no glorified doctoral thesis where the authorial jargon struggles to drown out the authorial yawns. Yes, as other reviewers have complained, modish identity politics get too indulgent a treatment; yes, as they have also complained, Pollack makes too small an effort to integrate his insights into a coherent structure. But we're not likely to encounter a better guide to the subject.
Variations on Copland Given the identity politics dominating the newmusicology, for all its flaws, Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of anUncommon Man, is a good and valuable book.It contains information frompreviously unavailable letters and interviews with the late composer'sfriends and relations.But why does a tenured, respected professor writingfor a trade house adopt the method of cobbling on end chapters dealing withtendentious, identity-political theory that can only detract from the work? And yet, at present, this may be as good as can be hoped for: Some theoryas encore, to satisfy the commissars.The alternative is, increasingly,all tin-eared theory, and no music. ... Read more |
7. Copland on Music by Aaron Copland | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(1963-01-01)
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An invaluable book, pregnant of brilliant reflections! |
8. Old American Songs Complete Low Voice (Bk/CD) with Piano Accompaniments (Boosey & Hawkes Voice) by Aaron Copland | |
Paperback: 56
Pages
(2009-06-01)
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9. Orchestral Anthology - Volume 1: The Masterworks Library (Boosey & Hawkes Masterworks Library) | |
Paperback: 232
Pages
(1999-12-01)
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10. Aaron Copland (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) by Mike Venezia | |
Paperback: 32
Pages
(1995-09)
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Wonderful Book |
11. Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War by Elizabeth Bergman Crist | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(2009-01-12)
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12. The Selected Correspondence of Aaron Copland by Aaron Copland | |
Hardcover: 288
Pages
(2006-04-26)
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13. Aaron Copland: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1923-1972 | |
Hardcover: 368
Pages
(2003-10-28)
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14. Copland : 1900 through 1942 by Aaron Copland, Vivian Perlis | |
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(1994-01-01)
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This is a gem of a book. |
15. What to Listen for in Music by Aaron Copland | |
Paperback: 307
Pages
(1957)
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A great book by the master American composer Aaron Copland |
16. The Dickinson Songs of Aaron Copland (Cms Sourcebooks in American Music) by Larry Starr, Michael J. Budds | |
Paperback: 138
Pages
(2003-10)
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Just what is needed
The Dickinson Songs of Aaron Copland |
17. Copland: Since 1943 by Aaron Copland, Vivian Perlis | |
Paperback: 463
Pages
(1999-04-28)
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well-written memoir from a genius |
18. The Music of Aaron Copland by Neil Butterworth, Neil Butterworth | |
Paperback: 262
Pages
(1985-06-18)
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19. Charles Ives and Aaron Copland - A Listener's Guide: Parallel Lives Series, No. 1 Their Lives and Their Music by Daniel Felsenfeld | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2004-11-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description The accompanying CD includes a sampling of their music from masterworks such as Appalachian Spring and The Unanswered Question to less common (yet every bit as worthwhile) gems. Guided listenings deliver a comprehensive account of exactly how the pieces work. Though these men don’t lack for documentation, Ives and Copland: A Listener’s Guide is an easier, more intimate introduction to their work and lives for the layman or neophyte—or even for the musician—who wants to know more about these composers. Copland, son of Jewish Polish-Lithuanian immigrants, studied with Nadja Boulanger, but being surrounded by French music and culture only strengthened his resolve to become an "American" composer. Despite a brief flirtation with serialism, he was determined to close the gap between composer and audience, and he succeeded admirably: his colorful scores, often suffused with folk and jazz idioms, speak to everyone; he became not only one of the most popular, but most respected composers of his time. Ives, whose musician father opened his ears to unheard-of musical combinations, was born into a New England family steeped in transcendental philosophy. His music, eccentric and deliberately perverse, is an acquired taste. Any composer who feels impelled to write a long, linguistically and philosophically impenetrable essay explaining his "magnum opus" can hardly expect to capture a large audience. Felsenfeld makes the best possible case for it, but one senses admiration rather than love. The author's style is not always felicitous (Copland's teacher "feared that Ives' influence might improperly influence the talented young man"), but having obviously read all of Copland's popular and Ives' indigestible writings, he was perhaps improperly influenced himself. --Edith Eisler Customer Reviews (2)
What's on the CD you ask...
introduction to the music with a CD |
20. Aaron Copland, his life by Catherine Owens Peare | |
Hardcover: 148
Pages
(1969)
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