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remarked after the premiere: "Aaron, it's amazing how, even when you compose in a completely 'foreign' idiom the music still comes out sounding like you." "The writing," also, "bears the unmistakable imprint of Copland's mature personality, in its wide spacing, its spare, lucid textures, often in
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The composition begins and ends with eleven-note chords (it may end on a ten note chord), "perhaps a double tease", and, "if there is one over-arching feature to Inscape, it is the alternation of massive blocks of sound, sometimes quite harsh in their harmony, with quieter sonorities and more
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to suggest 'a quasi-mystical illumination, a sudden perception of that deeper pattern, order, and unity which gives meaning to external forms.' This description, it seems to me, applies more truly to the creation of music than to any of the other
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there is no perceptible contradiction between the serial and diatonic elements, rather they dissolve freely into each other to produce music of a stimulating independence of spirit."
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Copland said that the twelve-tone technique "freshened his harmonic palette" and that the composition uses two different
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that frame the composition. The inner reality is the first complete statement of Copland's original
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Row 1: Eb G F# D F Bb A B C# G# E Row 2: F C Ab D G A B Eb C# E F#
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From Outward Appearance to Inner Reality: A Reading of Aaron Copland's Inscape
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Opening eleven-note chord spacing, orchestration not shown
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Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972
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just two or three parts, and lithe, cumulative rhythms."
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1967 musical composition for orchestra by Aaron Copland
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