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Originally Posted by Manny Laureano So, then here's a question:
The lesser known works of Copland are a bit different than the works everybody knows just about by heart. Are they lesser known because they are not consistent with the musical language he's known for or is it that they're just not terribly interesting to listen to?
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I would say that they are not as popular to the average listener because the language is indeed unfamiliar to those who appreciate his "greatest hits" or mainstream works. As a trained/educated listener, I find all works by a composer interesting because I want to know every nook and cranny of their art, where it resides in their progression, as well as how it relates to what was happening historically around the composer at the time of the composition. In the case of an educated, trained listener, the
interest of listening is for far more complex reasons than the purely aesthetic. That is perhaps the most glaring reason why some works are considered more interesting or popular than others.