Talk:Short Symphony

To-do list
GeneralPoxter (talk) 03:05, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Settle on article title (see Short Symphony vs. Symphony No. 2 (Copland)) ✅
 * Add thorough discography and performance history ✅
 * Obtain access to paper Aaron Copland’s Short Symphony and the Challenge to Human Supervision and Control in Music ✅
 * Expand musical analysis in Form using additional sources ✅
 * For discography, check All Music GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 17:02, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Short Symphony vs. Symphony No. 2 (Copland)
I'm not sure whether the main article title should be Short Symphony or Symphony No. 2 (Copland). In many of the sources I have read (including quotes from Copland himself), the work is referred to predominantly as the Short Symphony. Mentions on Aaron Copland and List of compositions by Aaron Copland also only mention it as the Short Symphony. Even the published score seems to exclusively refer to the symphony as the Short Symphony. However, one of the main sources used in this article (Hilliard) says that Short Symphony is only a "nickname". I want to see what other editors think about this topic. GeneralPoxter (talk) 00:38, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Pollack claims that: "Because Copland never thought of the [Dance Symphony] as a real symphony, he would later refer to the Short Symphony as his second symphony", implying that Short Symphony is the original name. Main name of the article will be Short Symphony for now. GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 17:02, 21 April 2021 (UTC)