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Aaron Copland

✤ 1900-1990

✤ American

✤ Adopts a “simple style” in the 1930s

✤ Copland’s style:

✤ “American” sound

✤ Very distinctive, but widely emulated

The Musical Museum in the Twentieth Century: Aaron Copland’s Symphony No. 3

✤ 1944-1946

✤ Form of a traditional symphony

✤ But with Copland’s distinctive personal style

✤ Fourth movement based on his own piece Fanfare for the Common Man (1942)

✤ Copland: The symphony reflected “the euphoric spirit of the country of the time.”

✤ Seen as monumental