Copland: 1900 Through 1942
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- Copland: 1900 Through 1942
- Author
- Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- St. Martin’s/Marek
- Place
- New York
- Year
- 1984
- Extent
- 402 pages
- ISBN
- 0312169620
- Language
- English
- Type
- Biography / performance history
- Subject
- Aaron Copland
SCOPE & CONTENT
Copland: 1900 Through 1942 is a substantial biographical source on Aaron Copland. First volume of Copland’s oral-history autobiography, built from the composer’s own narrative and documentary testimony; covers childhood, Paris studies with Nadia Boulanger, early modernism, Americanist works, colleagues and cultural politics through 1942. The dossier treats the book not merely as a life narrative but as evidence for performance history, professional networks, repertory, institutions and reception where those elements are present in the source.
RESEARCH VALUE
Its principal research value is the combination of biographical chronology with evidence about Aaron Copland’s artistic work. First-person memoirs and near-contemporary accounts are identified as testimony rather than neutral fact, while later scholarly biographies are useful for checking chronology, correspondence, recordings and received anecdotes against documentary evidence.
BIOGRAPHICAL SCOPE
First volume of Copland’s oral-history autobiography, built from the composer’s own narrative and documentary testimony; covers childhood, Paris studies with Nadia Boulanger, early modernism, Americanist works, colleagues and cultural politics through 1942.
RESEARCH USE
This curated record improves retrieval by title, author and subject name, and preserves edition-specific bibliographic information where it can be established safely. The physical document is never renamed or overwritten by this enrichment layer.
- Catalogue completeness
- 8 / 10 core bibliographic fields