Monday, January 16, 2012

Music Set #213 - Copland - Fanfare

[KOPE-land]  (1900-1990)
   
   
 

This fanfare has only percussion & brass sections.
* It was played now and then right after 911.

Simple Gifts 
(by an elder of the Shakers, a Christian division in USA)
* It was a dancing song/hymn in the Shakers' chapel  (with lyrics) 
* Blast  (music and dance)  
  

Copland made this melody well-known by borrowing it into section 7 (of 8) of his Appalachian Spring ballet suite.
Simple Gifts in Appalachian Spring
  
Note: The Appalachian ["appa-LATSCH-en"] Mountains (brown in color on map to the left) run between the 13 Atlantic states and Louisiana

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