What to Listen For in Music - Softcover

Copeland, Aaron; Rich, Alan

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9780451628800: What to Listen For in Music

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451628802 ISBN 13: 9780451628800

Publisher: Penguin, 1999

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Now in trade paperback: "The definitive guide to musical enjoyment" (Forum).

In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring readers a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally rewarding of all art forms.

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aOne of the most helpful, sensible, and enjoyable discourses on the subject ever published.a
a"Victor Record Review"
aBy far the best thing of its kind yet to appear.a
a"Modern Music"

?One of the most helpful, sensible, and enjoyable discourses on the subject ever published.?
?"Victor Record Review"

?By far the best thing of its kind yet to appear.?
?"Modern Music"

About the Author:

Aaron Copland's well-known and highly regarded compositions, performed and recorded extensively throughout the world, include the Pulitzer Prize-winning ballet Appalachian Spring, as well as Billy the Kid, Rodeo, Lincoln Portrait, and the film scores of Our Town and The Heiress. On being awarded a Congressional Gold Medal in 1986, Copland was praised for his "uniquely American music that reflects the very soul and experience of our people." During his career, Copland taught composition at Harvard and the Berkshire Music Center, lectured all over the United States, and wrote Our New Music and Music and Imagination. He died in 1990.

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