In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to music intelligently, Aaron Copland, the noted modern composer, poses two basic questions: Are you hearing everything that is going on? Are your really being sensitive to it? If you cannot answer yes to both of these questions, you owe it to yourself to read this book. Whether you listen to Mozart or Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland's provocative suggestions for listening to music from the composer's point of view will bring you a deeper appreciation of the most rewarding of all art forms.

What to Listen for in Music (Mentor Book)

Arts & Photography

COPLAND, Aaron

Music

NAL.

The celebrated American composer offers guidelines for listening to both classical and modern music and explains terminology

What to Listen for in Music

McGraw=Hill

This is the first book devoted to the correspondence of composer Aaron Copland, covering his life from age eight to eighty-seven. The chronologically arranged collection includes letters to many significant figures in American twentieth-century music as well as Copland’s friends, family, teachers, and colleagues. Selected for readability, interest, and the light they cast upon the composer’s thoughts and career, the letters are carefully annotated and each published in its entirety. Copland was a gifted and natural letter writer who revealed much more about himself in his letters than in formal writings in which he was conscious of his position as spokesman for modern music. The collected letters offer insights into his music, personality, and ideas, along with fascinating glimpses into the lives of such other well-known musicians as Leonard Bernstein, Carlos Chávez, William Schuman, and Virgil Thomson.

The Selected Correspondence of Aaron Copland

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Yale University Press

Copland On Music

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Copland on Music

Da Capo Press

Aaron Copland is one of America's most beloved musical pioneers, famous for Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, and Lincoln Portrait, as well as the movie scores for "Our Town" and "Of Mice and Men," and numerous orchestral and chamber works. This candid, colorful memoir begins with Copland's Brooklyn childhood and takes us through his years in Paris, the creation of his early works, and his arrival at Tanglewood. Rich with remembrances from Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, and Nadia Boulanger, as well as a trove of letters, photographs, and scores from Copland's collection, this is one of our most vivid musical autobiographies, and an enduring record of an American maestro's explosively creative coming of age.

Copland: 1900-1942

Perlis, Vivian

Leaders & Notable People

St Martins Pr

The renowned American composer recounts his life and career since the beginning of World War II and discusses the background of his major works

Copland Since 1943

A composer's candid life story has been repackaged for a release coinciding with the centenary celebration of his birth, and includes not only stories of Copland himself, but also those of many of his illustrious colleagues, such as Leonard Bernstein. Reprint.

Copland: Since 1943

In a candid, witty autobiography, the distinguished American composer recalls his Brooklyn childhood, his study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, his music, and his relationships, and offers a portrait of the era in which he lived and worked

Copland: 1900 through 1942

St. Martin’s/Marek

The new music 1900-1960

Macdonald

Whose fault is it that the artist counts for so little in the public mind? Has it always been thus? Is there something wrong, perhaps, with the nature of the art work being created in America? Is our system of education lacking in its attitude toward the art product? Should our state and federal governments take a more positive stand toward the cultural development of their citizens?
These are some of the provocative questions which Aaron Copland raises and answers in Copland on Music.

W.W.Norton&Company

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What to Listen for in Music (Mentor Book)

What to Listen for in Music

The Selected Correspondence of Aaron Copland

Copland on Music

Copland: 1900-1942

Copland Since 1943

Copland: Since 1943

Copland: 1900 through 1942

The new music 1900-1960

Copland on Music