- Title
- Suite from "The Plow That Broke the Plains"
- Availability
- Available
- Category
- Orchestral
- Instrumentation
- 1.1+ca.2+bcl.asx+tsx.2-2.2.2.0-timp.perc-banjo.gtr.pft.harp-str
- Duration
- 15'
- Publisher
- G. Schirmer Inc.
- First Publisher
- Mercury Music
- Premiere
- World: The Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA, January 2nd, 1943 (Philadelphia Orchestra; Virgil Thomson, conductor)
- Edition/Catalog #
- Hal Leonard 50488661
- Parts/Movements
- Prelude
- Pastorale (Grass)
- Cattle
- Blues (Speculation)
- Drought
- Devastation
- Version Of
- The Plow that Broke the Plains (W316)
- Versions
- Copyright
- ©1942 Mercury Music Corp; ©1980 Virgil Thomson
- Year Composed
- arr. 1936
- Date Composed
- Feb 1936
- Year Published
- 1942
- M.S. Location
- The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
- Cardell Number
- Orch8A
- Meckna Number
- W13
- Related Works
The Plow That Broke the Plains - Related Works
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936; ms.; W316)
Film score arranged for orchestra as Suite from "The Plow That Broke the Plains" (Feb 1936; G. Schirmer; See W13)
Orchestral suite also arranged for piano (1936; G. Schirmer; See W178)
Orchestral suite also arranged for brass quintet by Jay Rozen (arr. 1993)
