About Aaron Copland

List of Works

Suites, arrangements, or transcriptions are generally not included, except such works as the SEXTET, ORCHESTRAL VARIATIONS, and EMILY DICKINSON POEMS, which are widely known in these alternative versions

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1918

NIGHT

A SUMMER VACATION

MY HEART IS IN THE EAST

vocal

vocal

vocal

1920

OLD POEM

THE CAT AND THE MOUSE

vocal

piano

1921

PASTORALE

THREE MOODS

FOUR MOTETS

PETIT PORTRAIT

vocal

piano

choral

piano

1921-24

MOVEMENT FOR STRING QUARTET

chamber

1922

ALONE

PASSACAGLIA FOR PIANO

vocal

piano

1922-25

GROHG (revised 1932)

ballet

1923

CORTEGE MACABRE

AS IT FELL UPON A DAY for soprano, flute, and clarinet

orchestra

vocal

1923-28

TWO PIECES FOR STRING QUARETT

chamber

1924

SYMPHONY FOR ORGAN AND ORCHESTRA

orchestra

1925

DANCE SYMPHONY

MUSIC FOR THE THEATRE

TWO CHORUSES ("The House on the Hill," "An Immortality")

orchestra

orchestra

chorus

1926

PIANO CONCERTO

TWO PIECES FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO

SENTIMENTAL MELODY

orchestra

chamber

piano

1926/48

FOUR PIANO BLUES

piano

1927

POET’S SONG

vocal

1927-30

SYMPHONIC ODE (revised 1955)

orchestra

1928

VOCALISE

FIRST SYMPHONY (arrangement of Organ Symphony)

vocal

orchestra

1929

VITEBSK for piano, violin, and cello

chamber

1930

PIANO VARIATIONS

piano

1931

MIRACLE AT VERDUN

incidental

1933

SHORT SYMPHONY

orchestra

1934

HEAR YE! HEAR YE!

STATEMENTS FOR ORCHESTRA

INTO THE STREETS MAY FIRST

ballet

orchestra

chorus

1935

WHAT DO WE PLANT?

SUNDAY AFTERNOON MUSIC

THE YOUNG PIONEERS

chorus

piano

piano

1935-36

EL SALON MEXICO

orchestra

1936-37

THE SECOND HURRICANE

PRAIRIE JOURNAL (originally called MUSIC FOR RADIO)

opera

orchestra

1937

SEXTET (arrangement of Short Symphony) for string quartet, clarinet, and piano

chamber

1938

BILLY THE KID

AN OUTDOOR OVERTURE

LARK

ballet

orchestra

chorus

1939

THE CITY

OF MICE AND MEN

film

film

1939-41

PIANO SONATA

piano

1940

OUR TOWN

QUIET CITY

film

orchestra

1940

JOHN HENRY (rev. 1952)

orchestra

1941

EPISODE

organ

1942

DANZON CUBANO for 2-pianos

LAS AGACHADAS

FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN

LINCOLN PORTRAIT

MUSIC FOR MOVIES

RODEO

piano

chorus

orchestra

orchestra

orchestra

ballet

1943

SONG OF THE GUERILLAS

NORTH STAR

SONATA FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO

orchestra

film

chamber

1944

APPALACHIAN SPRING

LETTER FROM HOME (revised 1962)

ballet

orchestra

1944-46

SYMPHONY NO. 3

orchestra

1944/82

MIDDAY THOUGHTS

piano

1945

JUBILEE VARIATIONS

THE CUMMINGTON STORY

orchestra

film

1947

IN THE BEGINNING

chorus

1947/77

MIDSUMMER NOCTURNE

piano

1947-48

CLARINET CONCERTO

orchestra

1948

THE RED PONY

THE HEIRESS

film

film

1949

PREAMBLE FOR A SOLEMN OCCASION

orchestra

1949-50

TWELVE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON

vocal

1950

OLD AMERICAN SONGS, SET I

QUARTET FOR PIANO AND STRINGS

vocal

chamber

1952

OLD AMERICAN SONGS, SET II

vocal

1952-54

THE TENDER LAND (revised 1955)

opera

1954

DIRGE IN WOODS

vocal

1955

CANTICLE OF FREEDOM (revised 1967)

orchestra

1955-57

PIANO FANTASY

piano

1957

THE WORLD OF NICK ADAMS

ORCHESTRAL VARIATIONS (transcription of Piano Variations)

television

orchestra

1958-70

EIGHT POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON (orchestral version)

vocal

1959

DANCE PANELS (revised 1962)

ballet

1959-72

THREE LATIN AMERICAN SKETCHES

orchestra

1960

NONET FOR STRINGS

chamber

1961

SOMETHING WILD

film

1962

DOWN A COUNTRY LANE

CONNOTATIONS

piano

orchestra

1963

DANZA DE JALISCO (in Latin American Sketches) for 2-pianos

piano

1964

EMBLEMS FOR WIND ENSEMBLE

MUSIC FOR A GREAT CITY

chamber

orchestra

1966

IN EVENING AIR

piano

1967

INSCAPE

orchestra

1969

INAUGURAL (CEREMONIAL) FANFARE

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

orchestra

orchestra

1971

DUO FOR FLUTE AND PIANO

THRENODY I: IN MEMORIAM IGOR STRAVINSKY for flute, violin, viola, and cello

chamber

chamber

1972

NIGHT THOUGHTS: HOMAGE TO IVES

3 LATIN AMERICAN SKETCHES

piano

orchestra

1973

THRENODY II: IN MEMORIAM BEATRICE CUNNINGHAM for flute, violin, viola, and cello chamber

chamber

1973-82

PROCLAMATION

piano

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