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Where to start with Gould
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles
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Orchestral
A Lincoln Legend
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Chamber
Benny's Gig
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Stage
Billion Dollar Baby
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Keyboard
Boogie Woogie Etude
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Vocal
Hamma'ariv Aravim, for tenor, chorus and organ
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Orchestral
American Ballads
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Orchestral
American Salute
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Orchestral
Ballad, for band
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Orchestral
Cinerama Holiday Suite
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Orchestral
Concerto Grosso
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Orchestral
Derivations
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Orchestral
Elegy, for string orchestra
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Stage
Fall River Legend — Ballet
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Orchestral
Fall River Legend — Suite from the ballet
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Chamber
Fanfare for Freedom, for brass ensemble
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Gould's catalogue
Most Popular
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American Salute
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Latin-American Symphonette
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Spirituals for Orchestra
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Tap Dance Concerto
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Interplay
Most Acclaimed
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Stringmusic
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Flute Concerto
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Symphony No. 4 ”West Point”
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Jekyll and Hyde Variations
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Derivations for Clarinet and Band
Most Weird
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Tap Dance Concerto
a concerto for tap dancer and orchestra
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Interplay
piano + orchestra — jazz and classical in uneasy cohabitation
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Jekyll and Hyde Variations
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Dance Variations for piano and orchestra
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Soundings
commissioned for the opening of the Kennedy Center along with Bernstein’s Mass
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinity
Works 37
- Orchestral
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A Lincoln Legend
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American Ballads
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American Salute
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Ballad, for band
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Cinerama Holiday Suite
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Concerto Grosso
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Derivations
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Elegy, for string orchestra
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Fall River Legend
— Suite from the ballet
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Festive Music
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Formations
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Holocaust, NBC Mini-Series
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Interplay, for piano and orchestra
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Jekyll and Hyde Variations
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Jericho Rhapsody
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Jericho, rhapsody for wind ensemble
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March of the Leathernecks, for band or orchestra
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Saint Lawrence Suite
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Santa Fe Saga
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Santa Fe Saga, for band
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Serenade of Carols, for orchestra
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Spirituals
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Spirituals, for strings
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Stephen Foster Gallery
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Stringmusic
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Symphonette no. 2, "2nd American Symphonette"
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Symphonette no. 4, "Latin American"
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Symphony no. 4, "West Point"
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World War I, CBS Documentary
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Yankee Doodle, for band or orchestra
- Chamber
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Benny's Gig
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Fanfare for Freedom, for brass ensemble
- Stage
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Billion Dollar Baby
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Fall River Legend
— Ballet
- Keyboard
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Boogie Woogie Etude
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Pieces of China
- Vocal
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Hamma'ariv Aravim, for tenor, chorus and organ
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