...For this subject there is a wide variety of literature written in regards to Aaron Copland the composer and his connection to defining the American sound in his musical works. Some of the literature used for this paper will include biographical information, analytical, and comprehensive material on the subject. Those sources will help this study argue against common belief in regards to American music being define through Aaron Copland's music. Although there are many sources used for this study the following represent the sources most critical for this study. Some of the sources that are more biographical in nature such as “Composer from the Brooklyn: An Autobiographical Sketch,” will allow this paper to shape the parameters of its argument by placing Copland in Paris and establishing the effects of him living and studying there. Copland said, “It was a fortunate time to be studying music in France. All the pent-up energies of the...
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...Aaron Copland and the American Sound Aaron Copland searched far and wide to find a sound he could call American. He wanted to break away from European traditions and create a sort of nationalistic music that really felt like the American spirit was within it. To understand his want and persistent need to find this sound, the elements that should be examined are his upbringing, formal training, connections in networking, and his outside influences of different musical styles. Copland was born the child of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania in Brooklyn, NY in the fall of 1900. He had many siblings, one of which taught him to play the piano. He continued his home studies until he was sixteen-years-old at which time he began to study in Manhattan with Rubin Goldmark. It was with this teacher he learned the ‘fundamentals of counterpoint and composition.’ He attended performances at many venues such as the New York Symphony and Brooklyn Academy of Music to immerse himself in contemporary classical music. This interest in the classical foundations of music fueled his inspiration to study in Europe at the age of 20 with Nadia Boulanger at the Summer School of Music for American Students at Fountainebleau, France. With Nadia he learned about composition and orchestration. Upon his arrival back in the U.S. in 1924, he became an active “pianist, lecturer, and activist in musical societies.” It was in approximately 1925 that his compositions became well known, with the premiere of Music...
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...On July 11, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr and former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dueled in Weehawken, New Jersey. The duel was the result of many years of political conflict between the two, and after Hamilton attacked his reputation and character, Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel as a way to defend his honor. Burr left the duel unharmed, but Hamilton, after being shot in the stomach, died the morning after the duel. Aaron Burr is typically seen as a villain in history today, but many question whether or not Burr was justified in killing Hamilton. There were a number of political conflicts between Hamilton and Burr over the course of their feud that eventually led to the duel at Weehawken. There are also a number of other...
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...Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America, by Thomas Fleming, takes us back in time to a period in post-revolutionary America. The two-party system was in full swing it was the Federalists versus the Democratic-Republicans. Starting out in 1804, when the United States was wild and chaotic time when it came to politics. Fleming goes above and beyond in this book talking not only about the duel but what lead up to it and the events that followed after it along with their impact on the United States. And on top of that Fleming gives you a sense of the time period by adding in parts about what else is going on outside of the United States such as the rise of Napoleon. He also takes on the Burr Conspiracy and possible succession of New England....
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...Offering expressed expiation, or repentance. The Trespass Offering symbolized satisfaction, or restitution. These are just some examples of what the book describes to help people understand the reasons behind so many offerings. Others that the book describes are Priesthood and The Inauguration of the Tabernacle Service. One of the more interesting parts of the first part of this book was when it talks about the sin of Nadab and Abihu. Nadab and Abihu were two of the four sons of Aaron. Aaron and his sons were chosen to bring up the line of priests. It says in Leviticus chapter 10: “Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put unholy fire before the Lord, such as He had not commanded them. And fire came forth from the presence of the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.” Nadab and Abihu disobeyed the Lord because He had not instructed them to bring fire into the Holy of Holies. They weren’t even allowed to go into the Holy of Holies; only the High Priest, who was Aaron, could do that and only on the Day of Atonement. While the actual sin that they did is not definitely known, some say that Nadab and Abihu were mocking the Lord and brought in incense from the neighboring cultures. At this time, Israelites were sinning because they did not listen to the Lord when He said not to mingle with the...
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...Aaron Swartz Tyler Haug HUM 200 Dr. Dustow September 30, 2015 Aaron Swartz was a college drop out, an innovator, a genius to men much older than him, and also a felon. All he liked to do was learn the ins and outs about everything, especially computers. Aaron spent a lot of time in the library learning. He created the RSS, reddit, and Demand Progress. When he created Demand Progress, it was to campaign against the Stop Online Piracy Act. But, what he was most noted for was the stealing of JSTOR’s (journal storage) academic archive from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) computer system. Aaron believed that anything that belonged to learning should not be reduced to a monetary exchange. Then on January 11, 2013 he was found dead and no body knows how. It was said to be of suicide. At the beginning, prior to being arrested, he had stolen millions of academic journals from JSTOR at their MIT campus location. He went into a downstairs room where all the servers were at in the school, and hooked up his laptop to start his downloading. Aaron was smart, for every time JSTOR tried to slow him down, he would find his way back on just using a different ghost name. But, tables had turned and they placed a hidden camera in the room after catching Aaron’s laptop under a box. After a few days of nobody showing up, Aaron then walks through the door. MIT caught him exchanging his hard drives out to continue and store more articles. Then with the evidence MIT and JSTOR showed the...
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...This story is about a baseball player in 1952. His name is Hank “the hammer” Aaron. He was one of the best African American baseball players ever. He even shattered babe’s homerun record in 1974. He loved the sport and he didn’t care about fame or money, he just wanted to play ball. In high school Hank played football. He was the all star for his team an all American. He even got offers from Florida A and M but declined it for baseball. He became really good at base ball so he stuck with it for the rest of his life. Hank had an older sister that ran the family tavern and was a sever to make money. His brother Herbert jr. worked at a grocery store to make money. And as for Hank he mowed and picked potatoes to make money. His dad was an assistant for a boilermaker at the dry docks and his mom was a stay at home mom. They only made eight to nine dollars total. Hank had a brother that died at two because of pneumonia. And he had a son who had as an infant also. So Hank had a couple of thought things to deal with that had to be hard for him. Hank went from an all American football player to the world’s greatest baseball player. The reason why he went to baseball was he liked it more and he didn’t think he was that great at football. He always played base ball with his friends as a kid. After his choruses were done he would take a path that he made from his house to the park and would play ball there. In the 1960s he played in the Negro league. He was the best in the league...
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...How does Aaron Hill use memory to combine generalised moralising with personalised lament in the poem in list B? Use close reading to support your points. In the poem ‘Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton’, by Aaron Hill, the speaker recounts the memories he once shared with his wife whilst staying in a room at a guesthouse before her death. He is now writing as a widower in the same room twenty years later and he expresses his feelings of anguish by projecting specific memories of his wife on to objects within the room, before going on to make broad statements on morality and the vices of life. The poem could be said to be split into three parts, the first section being the speakers lament for his wife, the second section outlining his now changed philosophical outlook on life, and the third detailing his resolution which concludes the poem. This essay aims to show, through close reading, how the protagonist of the poem combines his personal memories and feelings of sorrow with his own general moralising about life’s hardships. The first section of the poem begins as a simple lament, as the speaker remembers his wife and the happiness she brought him and contrasts it with the emptiness and loneliness which he feels now in her absence: “Twenty lost years have stoln their hours away, Since, in this inn, ev’n in this room, I lay: How chang’d! what then was rapture, fire, and air, Seems now sad silence all, and blanc despair!” In the opening lines, Hill describes...
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...In Ron Chernow’s, Alexander Hamilton, Chernow tries to paint an image of what he calls “America’s most controversial Founding Father” (Chernow, 16). His work provides the reader with a broad view of early American political climate and culture, while emphasizing Hamilton’s accomplishments and relations with other Founding Fathers. The general picture of Hamilton that comes to mind in the thoughts of historian’s is an image of a brilliant man who was overbearing and involved in political scandals such as advocating for monarchy, protectionism, mercantilism, a centralized banking system, and a stronger federal government. Many are familiar with his popularized Federalist Papers, and know about his infamous political rivalry with Aaron Burr, who...
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...STEVE EMBER: I'm Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And I'm Barbara Klein with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Aaron Copland, one of America's best modern music composers. (MUSIC) STEVE EMBER: Aaron Copland wrote many kinds of music. He wrote music for the orchestra, piano, and voice. He wrote music for plays, movies and dance. Copland also was a conductor, pianist, speaker, teacher and author. Music critics say Copland taught Americans about themselves through his music. He used parts of many old traditional American folk songs in his work. He was influenced to do this after studying music in France. He said that composers there had a very French way of writing music. He said Americans had nothing like that in this country. So he decided to compose music that was truly American. BARBARA KLEIN: Aaron Copland was born in nineteen hundred in Brooklyn, New York. He was the youngest of five children. His parents had come to the United States from eastern Europe. They owned a store in Brooklyn. Aaron began playing the piano when he was a young child. He wrote his first song for his mother when he was eight years old. His dreams of becoming a composer began when he was young. When he was sixteen, he urged his parents to let him study composing with Rubin Goldmark. Goldmark had taught the composer George Gershwin. STEVE EMBER: When he was in his early twenties, Copland went to Paris where he studied music with Nadia Boulanger. She was one of...
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...This is transcript of 3 year 9 students talking about favourite films and ballet, these year 9 students are classmates as well as friends E= Emma L= Lydia F- Flora E- The guy who plays Aaron Tveit oh my god (.) he is actually so hot I think I’m going to melt L- wait which ones he E- enjo- Enjolaras F- how long have you L- who plays him E- urr Aaron Tveit thats what im talkin about L- Wait wait wait who plays im E- ur(2) i(2) right (.) umm (2) you know right L- its not Hugh Jackman is it E- no it Aaron Tveit and all im sayin is that he is so hot so me and katy thinking we should totally fly out to America and go to his next premier but my mummy said i was not allowed to L+F- (laughter) E- its not funny hes beautiful you should understand you like musicals F- how how far are going with your ballet E- urr i don’t know (3) i don’t know F- have you learnt most the exercises yet E- um (.) ive learn i dunno (.) i keep turning (.) i go like that rather than going straight forward like a normal person i start mawashi geriing and thats a karate technique L- indecipherable E- indecipherable F- that Emma L- yeah thats just Emma E- yeah do you do ballet or karate or (.) anything L- God no F- (laughter) L- what do you do L- i (.) don’t do anything E- surf the web (2) yh L yh i actually surf E- (laughter) F-...
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...Ellis recreates the scene of one of the most famous duels in American history in this chapter. He tells us that truth behind the fight between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Ellis found that the common version of the duel story has been told many times, and that although historically accurate, is too brief. The legendary battle between two prominent political figures could only be understood if we consider the personalities of the assailants and the argument that had brought them the duel in the first place. To understand it’s true significance, Ellis not only recounts the events of the fight, but relays information about the events leading up to the battle and who Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton really were. On July 11, 1804, a famous duel took place on the plains of Weehawken, NJ, which was later refuted by Ellis, who said that the fight actually took place on a narrow ledge twenty feet above water level, at the base of a cliff near Weehawken. Ellis captures the reader by...
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...Chanice Lighty November 3rd, 2014 Harrold US History John Adams vs Alexander Hamilton Born October 30, 1735 in Quincy, Massachusetts. John Adams our 2nd president of the United States, grew up with a father who was a farmer, deacon, and town councilman. Adams was a federalist one of his famous attributes was the argument about the stamp act of 1765. He wrote a response to the act called “Essay on the Canon and Feudal Law” in which he argued that: ‘the stamp act deprived American colonist of their rights to be taxed by consent and to be tried by a jury of their peers.’ He also made it clear that the act was null and void in a speech he sent out to the governor of Massachusetts along with his council. In 1796, Adams was elected as the federalist nominee for president. Thomas Jefferson led opposition. During his presidency France and Britain began a war, which started a political uproar for the United States causing Adams administration to focus on diplomatic efforts for France, when France denied the United States and later after the war died down Adams lost his favoritism from the public and lost his re-election to once opposed Thomas Jefferson. Alexander Hamilton born January 11, 1755 on the island of Nevis in the British West indies. Hamilton was part of George Washington’s administration, and one of the leading figures. Hamilton was also a nationalist, who stood for the “wealthy elite” meaning he believed the government should protect the wealthy. Hamilton’s goal...
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...Aaron McGruder, a young cartoonist has made history with the start up of his comic strip the “Boondocks”. When he first started his strip, it was published in over 160 newspapers. He set a new record for the most newspaper publishing in a first release. The 24 year old created the “Boondocks.” Boondocks is a slang term for white suburbia. The characters in the Boondocks are two brothers Huey and Riley. They relocate from the Chicago south side to an area called woodcrest which is “middle-class white suburbia.” They two brothers live with their grandpa. He wants them to fit in and give them better opportunities but the brothers are not interested in fitting in. They view the world differently. Huey is what you would call a freedom fighter always trying to fight the power! His younger brother Riley, is a wanna-be gangster. The Boondocks deals with racial views of blacks and whites, such examples are when Huey talks about in...
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...Hamilton made tight-knit relationships with many people along his journey, however, some people had more of an impact than others. Historical figures, Maria Reynolds and Aaron Burr, played roles in persuading the decisions of what he chose to publish as influential writings that led to his nonexistent presidency, or for backing Thomas Jefferson for president; both of which really affected...
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