Aaron Copland School of Music

Coordinates: 40°44′17″N 73°49′2″W / 40.73806°N 73.81722°W

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The Aaron Copland School of Music is one of the oldest departments at Queens College, founded when the College opened in 1937.

The department's curriculum was originally established by Edwin Stringham, and a later emphasis on the analytical system of Heinrich Schenker was initiated by Saul Novack.

Some of the students who enrolled in early classes of the college later became faculty members of the department. This included Sol Berkowitz, Gabriel Fontrier, Leo Kraft. Other distinguished faculty from the early years included John Castellini, who founded the Choral Society; Boris Schwarz, a refugee from his native Russia in 1917 and later from Nazi Germany in the 1930s; Saul Novack, who later became Dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities; and Barry Brook, who with Novack established the doctoral program in music at the Graduate Center of CUNY. Joseph Machlis, developed the teaching of music appreciation to a high art, and wrote the most successful series of music appreciation textbooks in history. (Machlis's Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening has been used by more than 3.5 million students and is in its tenth edition.^[1]^{[better source needed]}) Later faculty included Felix Salzer, a refugee from Austria who was a student of the theorist Heinrich Schenker and became the leading exponent of his ideas to generations of American students and scholars; and the composers Hugo Weisgall and George Perle.

Notable alumni

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Notable faculty

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References

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^ "The Enjoyment Of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening". Amazon.

External links

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Official website

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List of compositions
Operas	The Second Hurricane The Tender Land
Ballets	Appalachian Spring Billy the Kid Dance Panels Rodeo
Orchestral works	Connotations Fanfare for the Common Man Inscape Letter from Home Lincoln Portrait Music for a Great City Orchestral Variations El Salón México Symphony for Organ and Orchestra Short Symphony Symphony No. 3
Concertos	Piano Concerto Clarinet Concerto
Incidental and film music	Our Town Quiet City The City The Red Pony
Vocal music	Old American Songs Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson In the Beginning
Piano music	The Cat and the Mouse Danzón cubano Four Piano Blues Night-Thoughts Piano Variations
Namesakes	Aaron Copland School of Music Copland (crater) Copland Peak
Related articles	Aaron Copland House Neoclassicism Serialism Twelve-tone technique
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