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COPLAND, Aaron.

Music and Imagination.

Harvard: Harvard University Press , 1952.

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First edition of Aaron Copland's Music and Imagination; inscribed by him
First edition of this compilation of lectures delivered by Copland under the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard University. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Bon Voyage for the whole family love Aaron 1952." In very good condition.
Referred to by his peers and critics as "the Dean of American Composers", American composer and conductor Aaron Copland is best known for the works he wrote in the 1930s and 1940s which came to encompass the vast American landscape and pioneer spirit. While Copland's earliest musical influences included Chopin, Verdi, and Debussy, his later work employed the use of "jazzy elements" as well as experimentation with Schönberg's twelve-tone system, resulting in two major works, the Piano Quartet (1950) and the Piano Fantasy (1957).
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