About Aaron Copland

Books By and About Copland and his Music

(compiled by Florence Stevens)

Some of these are out of print but are available in libraries. Paperback editions are not listed here but may be available to purchase or borrow from libraries.

Berger, Arthur

Aaron Copland

New York: Oxford University Press, 1953

Reprinted. New York: Da Capo Press, 1990

Butterworth, Neil

The Music of Aaron Copland with a preface by Andre Previn

London: Toccata Press; New York: Universe Books, 1986

Copland, Aaron

Copland: 1900 through 1942

New York: St. Martin’s/Marek, 1984

Co-author: Vivian Perlis

Copland: Since 1943

New York: St. Martin’s/Marek, 1989

Co-author: Vivian Perlis

Copland on Music

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960

Music and Imagination

The Charles Elliot Norton Lectures, 1951-1952

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1952

The New Music, 1900-1960

New York: W. W. Norton, 1969

Previously published in 1941 under the title Our New Music

What to Listen for in Music

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939

Rev. edition. McGraw, 1957

McGraw-Hill, 1988. With an introduction by William Schuman

Dickinson, Peter (ed.)

Copland Connotations: Studies and Interviews

Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2002

Dobrin, Arnold

Aaron Copland: His Life and Times

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1967

Kostelanetz, Richard (ed.)

Aaron Copland: A Reader (Selected Writings, 1926-72)

New York: Routledge, 2003

Levin, Gail and Judith Tick

Aaron Copland's America: A Cultural Perspective

New York: Watson-Guptill, 2000

Owens, Catherine Peare

Aaron Copland, his life

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969

Perlis, Vivian

Copland: 1900 through 1942

New York: St. Martin’s/Marek, 1984

Co-author: Aaron Copland

Copland: Since 1943

New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989

Co-author: Aaron Copland

Pollack, Howard J.

Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man

New York: H. Holt & Co., 2000

Robertson, Marta and Robin Armstrong

Aaron Copland: A Guide to Research (Composer Resource Manuals)

New York: Garland, 2000

Skowronski, JoAnn

Aaron Copland: A bio-bibliography

Bio-bibliographies in Music #2

Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985

Smith, Julia

Aaron Copland, his work and contribution to American Music

New York: Dutton, 1955

Venezia, Mike

Aaron Copland

Chicago: Children’s Press, 1995

Last updated: 31 December 2003

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