American Decades
"Notes on a Cowboy Ballet"
Notes
By: Aaron Copland
Date: Unknown
Source: Copland, Aaron. "Notes on a Cowboy Ballet" in The Aaron Copeland Collection. New York: Aaron Copland Fund for Music. Reprinted online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/achtml/achome.html; website home page: http://memory.loc.gov (accessed April 9, 2003).
About the Artist: Aaron Copland (1900–1990), born in Brooklyn, studied with Rubin Goldmark, a well-known figure in New York music. He later studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, but developed an avant-garde style all his own that he characterized as distinctly American. Copland composed award-winning music for films, ballets, theater, and opera. In addition, he lectured, taught, conducted, wrote books about music, and as a concert pianist recorded his own piano concerto.
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1930's The Arts Primary Sources
- "The Production Code of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc.—1930–1934"
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Early Sunday Morning
- Poetry of Langston Hughes
- "Art: U.S. Scene"
- Composition
- It Can't Happen Here
- "Mouse & Man"
- Songs of Woody Guthrie
- "The Killer-Diller: The Life and Four-Four Time of Benny Goodman"
- "Notes on a Cowboy Ballet"
- One-Third of a Nation
- The Grapes of Wrath
- "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady"
- Arena: The History of the Federal Theatre
- Marian Anderson
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
