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This study examines social, historical, and political perspectives of Copland's contribution to the Goossens Fanfares, focu. Yet the cultural substance of that sound--the social and political perspective that might be heard within these familiar pieces--has until now been largely overlooked. While it has long been acknowledged that Copland subscribed to leftwing ideals, Music for the Common Man is the first sustained attempt to understand some of Copland's best-known music in the context of leftwing social, political, and cultural currents of the Great Depression and Second World War.

Musicologist Elizabeth Crist argues that Copland's politics never merely accorded with mainstream New Deal liberalism, wartime patriotism, and Communist Party aesthetic policy, but advanced a progressive vision of American society and culture.

Copland's music can be heard to accord with the political tenets of progressivism in the s and '40s, including a fundamental sensitivity toward those less fortunate, support of multiethnic pluralism, belief in social democracy, and faith that America's past could be put in service of a better future.

Crist explores how his works wrestle with the political complexities and cultural contradictions of the era by investing symbols of America--the West, folk song, patriotism, or the people--with progressive social ideals. Much as been written on the relationship between politics and art in the s and '40s, but very little on concert music of the era. Music for the Common Man offers fresh insights on familiar pieces and the political context in which they emerged.

Score: 2. This collection brings together essays that reflect a variety of diverse perspectives on approaches to musical meaning.

Established music theorists and musicologists cover topics including musical aspect and temporality, collage, borrowing and association, musical symbols and creative mythopoesis, the articulation of silence, the mutual interaction of cultural and music-artistic phenomena, and the analysis of gesture. Hindemith: Kammermusik No. Cage: Sonata I John Tilbury. Szymanowski: Symphony No. Maxwell Davies: Symphony - 4. Presto Philharmonia Orchestra, Simon Rattle. Holst: The Planets, Op. Haas: String Quartet No.

Largo misterioso "Mesic a ja" Hawthorne Quartet. Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. Walton: Symphony No.

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. Adagio Vladimir Ashkenazy, Concertgebouworkest. Adams: Shaker Loops - 2. Los Angeles Philharmonic Singer.

Zubin Mehta Singer. Aaron Copland Composer.