News (7)
- Mar 12, 2024Midday Thoughts: Editing Copland, Part 2
Critical editions offer so much more than just the notated score. Explore what makes these editions unique with Jennifer DeLapp-Birkett as she walks us through her MUSA edition of Appalachian Spring.
- Feb 15, 2024Midday Thoughts: Editing Copland, Part 1
The first of a two-part examination of recent editions of Copland's music, how they came to be, and why they matter.
- Nov 14, 2023Midday Thoughts: Lingering and Emerging Questions about Copland's Prelude for Piano Trio
Research often leads to new questions. This month, Jennifer DeLapp-Birkett takes us through new questions and possible answers from her summer research into Copland's Prelude for Piano Trio.
- Jul 28, 2022Midday Thoughts: The Many Versions of Appalachian Spring
Over a handful of decades, Copland's *Appalachian Spring* went through a series of reworkings, resulting in an often confusing variety of versions. Read on to untangle the history behind one of Copland's most iconic works.
- Nov 13, 2021New Appalachian Spring Edition Wins Musicology Award
The 2020 MUSA Edition of *Appalachian Spring*, edited by Jennifer DeLapp-Birkett and Aaron Sherber, was awarded this year’s Claude V. Palisca Award from the American Musicological Society.
- Jul 18, 2019Three Latin American Sketches and Remembering Vivian Perlis
Philip Rothman shares engraving tips after working on a new Copland edition, and memories from working with the late Vivian Perlis.
- Feb 21, 2019New Edition of Billy the Kid One Step Closer to Completion
Philip Rothman takes Billy the Kid to Peabody for a test run of the newly engraved edition of the full ballet.
Works (1)
- Appalachian Spring (ballet in one act for full orchestra) (2016)
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An orchestration of Copland’s 1944 ballet score to Appalachian Spring was completed in 2016, implementing the same forces used in the 1945 suite.
Alternates: Ballet for Martha, Appalachian Spring Complete Ballet for Full Orchestra, Appalachian Spring Ballet for Orchestra