Musical Monday 5 – Aaron Copeland

Posted on March 10, 2008 by | 4 Comments

I have really enjoyed playing his music – most noticeably the hoe down from rodeo [I coudn't find the string orchestra version on u-tube - far better! Anna should play it sometime...]. but todays main link is to the simple gifts from his appalachian spring. the ‘tune’ might be recognizable to many! There are a number of versions on utube. i chose this one as photos with it. would have prefered a video visual of the appalachians though…

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4 responses to “Musical Monday 5 – Aaron Copeland”

  1. Stella | March 11, 2008 at 10:53 | Reply

    I love Copland too. Rodeo was one of my set works I studied when I did music A Level.

  2. HHaricot | March 12, 2008 at 20:27 | Reply

    welcome back stella! Being somewhat older, I got to have elgar cello and berg violin as my set works.

  3. Stella | March 12, 2008 at 21:00 | Reply

    Hi again!
    One of my compositons was a twelve tone serialist Berg/Schoenberg thing. our other two set works were Monteverdi Orfeo and the score of West Side Story, I still like both of them too.

  4. HHaricot | March 12, 2008 at 21:48 | Reply

    once i got the measure of 12 tone composition it was quite fun, though i always found the initial ordering stressful. made me more impressed by berg’s es ist genug in his violin concerto

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