Billy the Kid
ballet by Copland and Loring
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dance notation
- In dance notation: Twentieth-century developments
…to record Loring’s signature ballet, Billy the Kid (1938).
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discussed in Copland biography
- In Aaron Copland
…based on American folk material: Billy the Kid (1938), Rodeo (1942), and Appalachian Spring (1944; commissioned by dancer Martha Graham). To this group belong also El salón México (1936), an orchestral piece based on Mexican melodies and rhythms; two works for high-school students—the “play opera” The Second Hurricane (1937) and…
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