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    Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was an American composer born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. He was the first American to study with Nadia Boulanger in France and wanted to compose music that captured the American character. In the 1930s during the Great Depression, Copland composed works like Billy the Kid, Rodeo, and Appalachian Spring that featured cowboy songs, folk tunes, jazz, and hymns to evoke the openness of the American landscape through clear textures, motion less harmonies, and a strongly tonal yet percussive orchestral style.

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    Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was an American composer born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. He was the first American to study with Nadia Boulanger in France and wanted to compose music that captured the American character. In the 1930s during the Great Depression, Copland composed works like Billy the Kid, Rodeo, and Appalachian Spring that featured cowboy songs, folk tunes, jazz, and hymns to evoke the openness of the American landscape through clear textures, motion less harmonies, and a strongly tonal yet percussive orchestral style.

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    Aaron Copland

    1900-1990

    American composer (Russian-Jewish immigrant parents)

    First American to study with Nadia Boulanger in France.

    Wanted to compose music which was American in character.

    In 1925, Jazz period for a few years – Music for Theatre – blues, ragtime.
    In 1930, composed serious, highly dissonant music – Piano Variations – power,
    percussive, intense.

    Late 1930s, the Great Depression, - Billy the Kid (1938), Rodeo (1942),
    Appalachian Spring (1944), A Lincoln Potrait (1942) – cowboy songs, folk
    tunes, jazz, hymns

    Texture of his music are clear and transparent.

    Motion less harmonies to evoke openness of the American landscape.


    Strongly tonal, polychords, polyrhythms, changing metres, percussive
    orchestration.

    After 1950, he used serial technique, tone row, to create own personal style.

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