Aaron Copland - Selected Works

Selected Works

See also: List of compositions by Aaron Copland
  • Scherzo Humoristique: The Cat and the Mouse (1920)
  • Four Motets (1921)
  • Three Moods (piano solo)(1921)
  • Passacaglia (piano solo) (1922)
  • Symphony for Organ and Orchestra (1924)
  • Music for the Theater (1925)
  • Dance Symphony (1925)
  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1926)
  • Symphonic Ode (1927–1929)
  • Piano Variations (1930)
  • Grohg (1925/32) (ballet)
  • Short Symphony (Symphony No. 2) (1931–33)
  • Statements for orchestra (1932–35)
  • The Second Hurricane, play-opera for high school performance (1936)
  • El Salón México (1936)
  • Billy the Kid (1938) (ballet)
  • Quiet City (1940)
  • Our Town (1940)
  • Piano Sonata (1939–41)
  • An Outdoor Overture, written for high school orchestras (1938) and transcribed for wind band (1941)
  • Fanfare for the Common Man (1942)
  • Lincoln Portrait (1942)
  • Rodeo (1942) (ballet)
  • Danzon Cubano (1942)
  • Music for the Movies (1942)
  • Sonata for violin and piano (1943)
  • Appalachian Spring (1944) (ballet)
  • Third Symphony (1944–1946)
  • In the Beginning (1947)
  • The Red Pony (1948)
  • Clarinet Concerto (commissioned by Benny Goodman) (1947–1948)
  • Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson (1950)
  • Piano Quartet (1950)
  • Old American Songs (1952)
  • The Tender Land (1954) (opera)
  • Canticle of Freedom (1955)
  • Orchestral Variations (orchestration of Piano Variations) (1957)
  • Piano Fantasy (1957)
  • Dance Panels (1959; revised 1962) (ballet)
  • Connotations (1962)
  • Down A Country Lane (1962)
  • Music for a Great City (1964) (based on his score of the 1961 film Something Wild)
  • Emblems, for wind band (1964)
  • Inscape (1967)
  • Duo for flute and piano (1971)
  • Three Latin American Sketches (1972)

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