Rodeo / Billy the Kid 柯普蘭 比利小子

20 世紀 30 年代，亞倫-科普蘭（Aaron Copland）先後嘗試過爵士樂和不和諧的抽象作品，他意識到大多數音樂愛好者根本不喜歡當代嚴肅作曲家創作的音樂。他決定嘗試創作樸實無華、內容充實而又令人愉悅的音樂，讓他們重新回到音樂廳，並以此為根基，在古老的西部神話中開創了一種獨特的露天美國音樂風格。這裡是他三部偉大的西部芭蕾舞劇的組曲，之前是 1942 年作為戰時愛國樂曲創作的激動人心的《普通人的序曲》"

作曲家: Copland Aaron
出版社: Alfred Music
風格: Masterwork
原文簡介:
In the 1930s, having experimented by turns with jazz and dissonant abstract works, Aaron Copland recognised that most music-lovers simply did not like the music being written by contemporary "serious" composers. He decided to try writing "plain" music, substantial yet enjoyable, which would bring them back to the concert-halls, and in so doing single-handedly forged a distinctive "open-air" American style of music rooted in the mythology of the old West. Here are the suites from his three great "Western" ballets, preceded by the stirring Fanfare for the Common Man, written in 1942 as a patriotic wartime piece.