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  1. Aaron Copland had a lot of famous pieces through his
  2. life. I'm just going to focus on his two most
  3. famous and probably his two most influential Appalachian Spring and
  4. rodeo. So Appalachian Spring is an orchestral piece that he
  5. made for a ballet that was based on the wedding
  6. of a young couple on the American frontier in the
  7. 1800s. He named it after a poem by a poet
  8. named Hart Crane.
  9. He didn't name it after anything specific.
  10. He just liked how it sounded.
  11. Was it?
  12. Uh, he won the Pulitzer for his work in 1940
  13. for um, the piece uses a lot of different elements
  14. of American folk.
  15. It's very free flowing and he said there was a
  16. forced simplicity to the music that he really liked to
  17. work with.
  18. He used it in many different pieces.
  19. He used a two chord theme throughout the score all
  20. the way up until the very end when he made
  21. the him simple gifts, which is actually the most well
  22. known part of the uh, ballet.
  23. His patron marc Martha Graham, she said the first time
  24. she heard the composition, it was like the sun spread
  25. over the floor.
  26. And then I linked up at the youtube video to
  27. one of the songs.
  28. Um, so rodeo was a cowboy ballet.
  29. It incorporated a lot of different elements of folk and
  30. jazz. He added jazz in this one.
  31. He liked the how angular it was and the sharp
  32. turns. Uh, so the theme of it, Hoedown is the
  33. most famous and most recognizable.
  34. It was actually adapted in the 90s into the soundtrack
  35. for the Titanic.
  36. Um, the theme for Hoedown was written by a Kentucky
  37. fiddler named William Hamilton Step before it was adopted by
  38. him because he gave him credit and he actually puts
  39. him in the piece itself, but he does take it
  40. from someone else.
  41. And then there's another Youtube clip.
  42. And then so some other compositions of note was the
  43. fanfare for the Common Man, which he made in 1942
  44. the Clarinet Concerto, which he made in 1947 Billy the
  45. Kid in 1938 The tender Land, which is an adaptation
  46. of Emily Dickinson's work.
  47. And I felt a funeral in my brain in 1950,
  48. great name.
  49. And then here are the references and also just we
  50. had a problem my group did with the sharing the
  51. Prezi So this is a copy, I hope.
  52. That's okay.
  53. Thank