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Title	Walz and Celebration (from 'Billy the Kid')
Article no.	10036782
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Concert music
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Country of publication	United Kingdom (uk)
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Composer	Copland, Aaron
Arranger	Lang, Philip J.
Duration	6:30
Additional info/contents	In 1938, Copland wrote the first of his Wild West ballets, "Billy the Kid", for the American Ballet Caravan. The inspiration for the ballet was Walter Noble Burn's best-seller "The Saga of Billy the Kid", an unusual mix of folklore, fantasy, and historical research about the legendary desperado. Raised in Silver City, New Mexico, Billy is remembered as one of the most notorious characters of the frontier Southwest. An unscrupulous gambler and cattle rustler, he was said to have killed a man for each of his twenty-one years. Fearing that the violent truth of Billy's escapades might overwhelm the production, Copland preferred to describe Billy as "a legendary character, a young innocent who went wrong, part of the picturesque folklore of the Far West, not the monster he was."

No.	Track title	Duration	Sound sample
1	Waltz	4:00
2	Celebration	2:30

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	Walz and Celebration (from 'Billy the Kid') (concert/wind band), full score and parts
	Waltz and Celebration (from 'Billy the Kid') (concert/wind band), condensed score
	Legacy of Aaron Copland, The, audio CD

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