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Title Suite from "The Plow That Broke the Plains"
Commercial Availability Status Available
Ensemble Type Orchestral
Instrumentation

11+ca.2+bcl.asx+tsx.2/2220/timp.perc/bjo.gtr.pf.hp/str

Duration 15
Current Publisher G. Schirmer Inc.
Edition Or Catalog Number Hal Leonard 50488661

Cataloging Information

Copyright Date And Owner ©1942 Mercury Music Corp; ©1980 Virgil Thomson
Year Composed 1936
Year Revised
First Publisher Mercury Music
Year Published 1942
Manuscript Source(s) Location

Yale

Cardell Number Orch8A
Meckna Number W13

Additional Notes & Comments

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CC Reports score for sale

CC reports "arr 1936" as date; Music Sales Classical reports 1942 as composition date.

No catalog number for Music Room; Rental Worldwide Available.

Movements:

1. Prelude

2. Pastorale (Grass)

3. Cattle

4. Blues (Speculation)

5. Drought

6. Devastation

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