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American Concert Music
Through 1945

essay 8

 

 

 

 

The image you see is of the American composer, Aaron Copland. This image can be found at www.barcellona.com.

The music you hear is "Fanfare For the Common Man," composed by
Aaron Copland and performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
 
From the album "Copland: El Salón México."

 

 

 

What is this essay about?

Early Colonial Concert Music
America's First Professional Composers: The First New England School
Concert Music For a New Nation
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
The Second New England School
American Composers At the Turn Of the twentieth Century
Jazz Influenced Classical Music
Modern Music In America
The Depression Years

 

 

 

 Who are some of the people
in this essay?

William Billings
Ernest Bloch
Amy Cheney Beach
Edward MacDowell
Charles Ives
George Gershwin
John Knowles Paine
Henry Cowell
Edgard Varèse
Harry Partch
John Cage
George Antheil
Aaron Copland
Samuel Barber
William Schuman
Anthony Philip Heinrich
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
George Whitefield Chadwick

 

 

 

 

What music is in this essay?

Chester
When Jesus Wept
Sonata in D Major
The Ornithological Combat of Kings
Le Banjo
The Last Hope
Union
Fuga Giocosa
Piano Quintet in F Sharp Minor, Op. 67
Jubilee
Tam O'Shanter
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 23
Putnam's Camp
Variations On America
Schelomo
Concerto Grosso No. 1 For String Orchestra with Piano Obbligato
Rhapsody In Blue
An American In Paris
The Banshee
Intégrales
Two Studies On Ancient Greek Scales
Bacchanale for prepared piano
Roll One
Music For the Theatre
Fanfare For the Common Man
Hoe-down from Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo
Adagio for Strings

 

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