Ending on a swelling D Major chord, FTP, what is this flourish for brass and percussion written in 1942 by Aaron Copland, dedicated to the average citizen?
Eugene Goossens [GO-since], who commissioned this work, suggested that it be titled some branch of the military, and its composer had considered naming it after the Four Freedoms. Its main theme, later borrowed for the composer's Third Symphony, first appears in the trumpets, which are then joined by the French horns playing parallel fourths and fifths beneath them. That theme consists almost entirely of leaps and is usually punctuated with the percussive motif that also opens the piece, a gong crash followed by two beats of the timpani and bass drum. Ending on a swelling D Major chord, FTP, what is this flourish for brass and percussion written in 1942 by Aaron Copland, dedicated to the average citizen?
Eugene Goossens [GO-since], who commissioned this work, suggested that it be titled some branch of the military, and its composer had considered naming it after the Four Freedoms.
Fanfare for the {Common Man}