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Fanfare for the Common Man is a musical work by the American composer Aaron Copland. It was written in 1942 for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under conductor Eugene Goossens and was inspired in part by a speech made earlier that year by then American Vice President Henry A. Wallace , in which Wallace proclaimed the dawning of the "Century ...
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Copland immediately grabs your attention with the percussion: timpani, bass drum, and tam-tam (a type of gong). Once established, the percussion gets softer with each repetition to make way for the trumpets who play the main melodic theme of the piece. The theme is firmly in the key of B♭ (B flat) major and sounds very “open”: movement happens by j...
To finish the piece, Copland takes us in yet another new direction, introducing more notes that are not native to our home key of B♭ major (E♮ and C♯). He repeats the slower fanfare in this new key, ending the piece not back in B♭ major where we would expect, but on a triumphant D major chord (3:27). A lot of music begins and ends on the same “home...
At 2:19 he introduces an A♭ into the chord. A♭ is not native to the B♭ major scale. It is, however, in the E♭ major scale; the line travels down from that high A♭ to land eventually on an E♭ major chord (2:33). Then it’s back into B♭ major until 3:06, where he brings back the A♭ plus the addition of a D♭ – another “new” note. Like the A♭, D♭ is not...
Mar 29, 2023 · Copland's music paints an aural picture of many different facets of America. Some works seem to evoke the Modern American City, others Latin America, the American West or the American Past. A fifth image of America found Copland's music is the Common Man.*
Jul 19, 2018 · Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" begins with dramatic percussion, heralding something big and exciting. Then comes a ladder of simple trumpet notes, solemn and heroic.
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May 8, 2024 · “Fanfare for the Common Man” is a short piece of music, lasting just over three minutes. It is scored for brass and percussion instruments only, with no strings. The opening chords feature a repeated motif that has been likened to a trumpet call.
The fifteenth fanfare, premiered on 12 March 1943, by Copland, is the only one still in the repertoire today. Scored originally for horns, trumpets, trombones, tuba and percussion, Copland used it just three years later as the theme for the last movement of his Symphony No 3.
Sep 13, 2024 · By far the most popular, and possibly the greatest examples of this kind of music are found in the ballet Appalachian Spring and the orchestral gem Fanfare for the Common Man. The Fanfare was commissioned by conductor Eugene Goossens for the 1942-43 season of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
