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Appalachian Spring is an American ballet created by the choreographer Martha Graham and the composer Aaron Copland, later arranged as an orchestral work.Commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Copland composed the ballet music for Graham; the original choreography was by Graham, with costumes by Edythe Gilfond and sets by Isamu Noguchi.
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Connotations is scored for full symphony orchestra with augmented percussion. The complete ensemble includes piccolo, three flutes (third flute doubling second piccolo), two oboes, cor anglais, two clarinets, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, three bassoons (third bassoon doubling contrabassoon), six horns, four trumpets, four trombones, tuba, tympani, five percussionists (glockenspiel ...
The 1940s were arguably Copland's most productive years, and some of his works from this period cemented his fame. His ballet scores for Rodeo (1942) and Appalachian Spring (1944) were huge successes. Lincoln Portrait and Fanfare for the Common Man became patriotic standards. Also important was the Third Symphony.
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The symphony ends on an open fifth, a chord which is repeated two more times in the 1955 revision of the score. [ 37 ] The orchestration of the third movement makes more frequent use of the entire orchestra than that of the previous movements, using effects such as muted trumpets, col legno , pizzicato , and jeté . [ 52 ]
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