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From "The Tender Land" to "Two Pieces for Violin and Piano" (13 works)
- The Tender Land
- Form: Opera
- Date: 1954
- Text: "Horace Everett" (Erik Johns)
- First performance: 1 April 1954. New York. New York City Opera Company, cond. Thomas Schippers
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1956
- Timing: 100'
- Notes: Copland prepared an orchestral suite from the opera in 1957-1958 Other material from the opera published separately are: "The Promise of Living" in a version for five-part chorus; "Stomp Your Foot" for chorus and piano; and "Laurie's Song" ("Once I Thought") for voice and piano. The music of The Promise of Living is based on Zion's Walls from Old American Songs, Set II
- The Tender Land
- Form: Orchestral suite
- Date: 1958
- First performance: 10 April 1958. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, cond. Fritz Reiner
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1960
- Timing: 21'
- Contents: I. Introduction and Love Music II. Party Scene III. Finale: The Promise of Living
- Notes: The music of "The Promise of Living" is based on Zion's Walls from Old American Songs, Set II
- Related digital items:
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving and Verna Fine, March 19, 1954.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving Fine, March 29, 1954.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving and Verna Fine, April 26, 1954.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving Fine, July 1954.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Verna Fine, July 24, 1954.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving and Verna Fine, July 5, 1955.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Verna Fine, May 9, 1956.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving Fine, March 17, 1957.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Mary Lescaze, March 4, 1954.
- Third Symphony
- Form: Orchestra
- Date: 1944-1946
- First performance: 18 October 1946. Boston Symphony Orchestra, cond. Serge Koussevitzky
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1947
- Timing: 42'
- Dedication: "Dedicated to the memory of my dear friend Natalie Koussevitzky."
- Contents: I. Molto moderato – with simple expression II. Allegro molto III. Andantino quasi allegretto IV. Molto deliberato / Doppio movimento (Allegro risoluto)
- Notes: the introduction to the fourth movement incorporates the Fanfare for the Common Man
- Related digital items:
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving and Verna Fine, July 5, 1955.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Louis Kaufman, June 14, 1945.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Mary Lescaze, June 19, 1945.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Marcelle de Manziarly, September 15, 1944.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Marcelle de Manziarly, April 24, 1945.
- Fanfare for the common man [piano sketch]
- Third symphony [pencil draft]
- Third symphony [ozalid piano score]
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Nicolas Slonimsky, July 14, 1927.
- Three Latin-American Sketches
- Form: Orchestra
- Date: 1971
- First performance: 7 June 1972. New York Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Andre Kostelanetz
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1975
- Timing: 10'
- Contents: I. Estribillo II. Paisaje Mexicano III. Danza de Jalisco
- Notes: an expansion of Two Mexican Pieces. Copland describes the orchestra – single winds, but at least six first violins – as "small orchestra" rather than "chamber orchestra."
- Three Moods
- Form: Piano
- Date: 1920-1921
- First performance: Fontainebleau, 21 September 1921. Aaron Copland, piano
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1981
- Contents: I. Embittered II. Wistful III. Jazzy
- Notes: Originally Four Moods, with Petite Portrait (ABE)
- Related digital items:
- Threnody No. 1: Igor Stravinsky in Memoriam
- Form: Flute and string trio
- Date: 1971
- Publisher: Tempo magazine, no 98
- Publisher: Tempo magazine, no 98
- Date of publication: 1972
- Timing: 2'
- Threnody No. 2: Beatrice Cunningham in Memoriam
- Form: Alto flute and string trio
- Date: 1973
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1977
- Timing: 4'
- Tragic Ground
- Form: Musical
- Date: 1945
- Publisher: Unfinished
- Publisher: Unfinished
- Notes: Despite the title, Caldwell's novel is a comedy. Tragic Ground is the source of "I Bought Me a Cat" from Old American Songs, Set I and of the version of Zion's Walls in Old American Songs, Set II. It was also drawn on for music for The Red Pony, The Tender Land and Dance Panels
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- Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
- Form: Voice and piano
- Date: 1949-1950
- Text: Emily Dickinson
- First performance: 18 May 1950. New York Alice Howland, soprano; Aaron Copland, piano
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1951
- Timing: 28'
- Dedication: "to twelve composer friends" as follows: I. "To David Diamond." II. "To Elliott Carter." III. "To Ingolf Dahl." IV. "To Alexei Haieff." V. "To Marcelle de Manziarly." VI. "To Juan Orrego Salas." VII. "To Irving Fine." VIII. "To Harold Shapero." IX. "To Camargo Guarnieri." X. "To Alberto Ginastera." XI. "To Lukas Foss." XII. "To Arthur Berger."
- Contents: I. Nature, the gentlest mother II. There came a wind like a bugle III. Why do they shut me out of Heaven? IV. The world feels dusty V. Heart, we will forget him VI. Dear March, come in! VII. Sleep is supposed to be VIII. When they come back IX. I felt a funeral in my brain X. I've heard an organ talk sometimes XI. Going to Heaven! XII. The Chariot
- Notes: Eight of the poems – 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, and 12 – were orchestrated by Copland in the years between 1958 and 1970. When performed as a group they go under the title "Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson."
- Related digital items:
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Verna Fine, 1950.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving Fine, June 10, 1950.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving and Verna Fine, December 28, 1950.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Verna Fine, August 20, 1951.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Marcelle de Manziarly, October 13, 1955.
- Two Ballads for Violin and Piano
- Date: 1957
- Publisher: Unpublished
- Publisher: Unpublished
- Dedication: "To Verna Fine"
- Contents: I. Half-note = circa 60. Simple and direct II. Quarter-note = circa 80
- Notes: realized by Bennett Lerner and Phillip Ramey from sketches
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- Two Mexican Pieces
- Form: Chamber orchestra
- Date: 1959
- First performance: July 1959, Spoleto (second movement only)
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Date of publication: 1968
- Contents: I. Paisaje Mexicano II. Danza de Jalisco
- Notes: expanded as Three Latin-American Sketches in 1971. "Danza de Jalisco" was arranged by the composer for two pianos in 1963
- Two Pieces for String Quartet or String Orchestra
- Date: 1923-1924, 1928
- First performance: (string quartet): 6 May 1928. N.Y., Lennox Quartet; (string orchestra): 14 December 1928. Boston. Boston Symphony Orchestra, cond. Serge Koussevitzky
- Publisher: Arrow Music Press
- Date of publication: 1940
- Timing: 11'
- Contents: I. Lento molto II. Rondino on the name Gabriel Fauré
- Notes: the Rondino on the Name Gabriel Fauré was written in 1923-1924 and was performed as an independent piece at Fontainebleau in September 1924
- Related digital items:
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, April 19, 1929.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, May 28, 1929.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to his parents, September 3, 1932.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky, September 5, 1932.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to his parents, September 29, 1932.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, April 7, 1933.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Natalie Koussevitzky, November 11, 1933.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, December 16, 1933.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, October 15, 1934.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Paul Bowles, December 13, 1934.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, December 31, 1934.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, August 28, 1935.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, September 30, 1935.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, November 28, 1940.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, October 23, 1943.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, February 7, 1946.
- Two Pieces for Violin and Piano
- Date: 1926
- First performance: 5 May 1926. Paris. Samuel Dushkin, violin; Aaron Copland, piano
- Publisher: B. Schott's Söhne
- Date of publication: 1928
- Timing: 9'
- Dedication: I.: "To Israel Citkowitz." II. "To Samuel Dushkin."
- Contents: I. Nocturne II. Ukelele Serenade
- Notes: Like many other people, Copland misspells "ukulele."
- Related digital items:
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, March 4, 1926.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, December 19, 1927.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Natalie Koussevitzky, February 16, 1928.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Louis Kaufman, December 8, 1942.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Louis Kaufman, December 1, 1944.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Louis and Annette Kaufman, December 28, 1977.
- Two pieces for violin and piano [first sketches]
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, April 3, 1925.
- Letter from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, October 16, 1927.