Voices of Liberty - Simple Gifts
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@singurheartout4 he didn't actually compose this melody, but rather adapted it for his Appalachain Spring Ballet Suite. These are definitely not the harmonies in the ballet.
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such beautiful harmony!
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Beautiful and the timing was stunningly perfect!
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Who's arrangement is this?! It's fantastic!!
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@singurheartout4 Aboslutely. His adaptation of that tune is the embodiment of the Amerian Spirit, and much beyond our simple scope of American identity, the spirit of the wonder that is the human spirit.
The world silently lost a master of human understanding when Aaron Copland passed away.
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I love this arrangement! Is it published somewhere?
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this is so beautiful!
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Nicely done, but I thought their costumes were at odd with the sentiments expressed in the music.
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Aaron Copeland didn't write Simple Gifts, Joseph Brackett did. So the whole argument thing going on here is kinda pointless....
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I love this arrangement!! Always have....
Tis true. But "Simple Gifts", while frequently associated with Copland because of the melody's presence in the Appalachian Spring Suite, was originally a Shaker hymn.
mgersting 3 years ago 12
There are few things as quintessentially American as Aaron Copeland.
singurheartout4 3 years ago 9