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Aaron Copland

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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.


— Aaron Copland


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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.


— Aaron Copland


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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.


— Aaron Copland


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A melody is not merely something you can hum.


— Aaron Copland


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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.


— Aaron Copland


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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.


— Aaron Copland


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About Aaron Copland






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Outraged by the accusations many members of the musical community held up Copland's music as a banner of his patriotism. Bernstein was considered the finest conductor of Copland's works and cites Copland's "aesthetic simplicity with originality" as being his strongest and most influential traits. The open slowly changing harmonies of many of his works are archetypical of what many people consider to be the sound of American music evoking the vast American landscape and pioneer spirit.

Works in this vein include the ballets Appalachian Spring Billy the Kid and Rodeo his Fanfare for the Common Man and Third Symphony. He became a frequent guest conductor of orchestras in the US and the UK and made a series of recordings of his music primarily for Columbia Records. In his personal style Copland began to make use of tone-rows in several compositions.

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