- Title
- Inscape
- For
- orchestra
- Year Composed
- 1967
- Scoring
- 2.picc.2.corA.2.bcl.2-4.3.3.1-timp.perc:glsp/vib/xyl/cyms/3 susp.cym/ tgl/claves/SD/tamb/TD-harp-pft(=cel)-strings
- ARCO Number(s)
- 90
- Category
- Orchestral
- Duration
- 13'
- Premiere
- World: Ann Arbor, MI, September 13th, 1962 (New York Philharmonic, cond. Leonard Bernstein)
- Commission Info
- The New York Philharmonic, in celebration of its 125th anniversary season
- Publisher
- Boosey & Hawkes
- Publishing Status
- Published
Program Note
Copland describes the material for Inscape as coming from two different series of twelve tones that in turn give rise to subsidiary serial patterns. He felt that serialism "freshened his harmonic palette," although this one-movement piece is more tonal than is customary in serial composition. While Copland never attached a great deal of significance to titles, he admitted to being drawn to a literary source for Inscape, the title of a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
- Author
- Vivian Perlis
- Year
- 1998