Writing on Our TownLook up any of the musical terms that you do not
know.1. L
Writing on Our TownLook up any of the musical terms that you do not know.1. Look up
composer Aaron Copland and listen to the music he composed for the 1940 film of Our
Town. What are his musical interests? Which sounds (instruments, atonal sounds, bucolic,
pastoral or urban, minor or major, harmonious or dissonant, crescendo or diminuendo, light
or heavy, fast or slow) create images that express the three acts of Our Town: Daily Life,
Love and Marriage, Death and Eternity? Copland is known for his particularly American
sounds. Do you hear American or universal sounds? Which are universal? Which
American?