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Where can I find a book of excerpts including pieces by Copland ?

You won't. Since all of his music is under copyright, it is not cost effective to try to get the rights to publish it. You may find someone who has copies. Here are ones to look for:

Symphony Nr. 3- WOW!!!!!
Billy the Kid- Cool part
Rodeo- More than meet's the eye
Emblems- a band piece, two seperate parts, decidedly not his best work.

I have played a piece that he wrote for ballet, can't remember it's name, but the part is satisfying.

I am sure I am missing things. Good luck in your search. There is no tuba part in any of the extrapolations of Appalachian Spring or Outdoor Overture that I have seen.

Chuck

You might want to add in Fanfare for the Common Man as well.

I second the cool part for Billy the Kid!!

When I was a freshman in high school, I played a band transcription of An Outdoor Overture. It has one of the most fascinating tuba parts I have ever played. There is a section which is divided up into two completely different tuba parts. Boy was I every disappointed to find out that there was no tuba part in the original orchestra version. (It was commissioned by a tiny school orchestra in Brooklyn.)

That "tiny" school was the high school for the performing arts in NY, one of the largest and best schools in the country at the time.

Chuck"who had a number of relatives play the premiere of the work in the 40's"Jackson

I knew that. But it had no tuba player. I didn't put the school down.

The "Lincoln Portrait" has a few exposed passages as well.

[quote="Chuck Jackson"] Emblems- a band piece, two seperate parts, decidedly not his best work.

You have that right about "Emblems". We are playing it now. Written for band directors convention in 1964 I think. Anyway, Yuck!!!! Our director told us at the begining of the set that he had spoken with Copland on this, and he told him that Emblems was his only original piece. All of his other work was with the input of others.

The first thing that I thought of when I saw the title of this thread was that godawful Sylvester Stallone movie "Copland". When I read further down the thread and saw references to the composer, I became unsure of the spelling of the composer's name. I went to Google, typed in both Copland and Copeland, and got a ton of references with both spellings.

The Wikipedia article has given me enough evidence that Copland was the correct spelling. It still surprises me that there were so many Web pages with the wrong one.

By the way, I thought that there was one line in the Wiki that was worth quoting:

Copland started showing signs of Alzheimer's disease in the 1970s, as a result of which he gave up composing (though he was still able to function effectively as a conductor as late as 1977,