Shortly after this transitional period, the artistic populism of the thirties begins to affect Copland's artistic direction. He wants his work to reach people who don't normally go in for Horrid Modern Music. He writes for popular venues: Outdoor Overture for high-school orchestra, the "school opera" The Second Hurricane, and music for theater, ballet, and films. His collaborators, also affected by 30s populism, choose well-known American mythic subjects, and Copland responds (with the help of Virgil Thomson) by simplifying his musical materials and incorporating folk influences. This results in his most popular works: the ballets Billy the Kid, Rodeo (incidentally, pronounced ROH-dio by the composer. Don't worry, I don't say it that way either), the incidental music for Irwin Shaw's play Quiet City, and the film scores Our Town and The Red Pony. The period also produced the "tourista postcards" of El Sal&ocute;n México and Danzon Cubano, a clarinet concerto for Benny Goodman, the full-length opera The Tender Land, Fanfare for the Common Man, Lincoln Portrait for speaker and orchestra, the Old American Songs, Symphony No. 3, and his mega-hit Appalachian Spring.
Copland Clarinet Concerto Score Pdfl
Copland's score features contrasting musical styles to support the on-screen images and rhetoric. Idyllic rural and suburban life is represented by pastoral, consonant music, while urban conditions are shown to dissonant, rhythmically jarring portions of the score. Additionally, there is often a strong physical correlation between specific images and musical figures, such as the clarinet triplet passage that plays while the viewer is shown a water wheel. 2ff7e9595c
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