<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Known as the "Shaker Melody", "Shaker Song", and the "Shaker Hymn", the music Copland based his ending variations on was actually called Simple Gifts . This same Shaker tune was used by Sydney Carter in a widely recognized hymn entitled "Lord of the Dance". Copland published independent arrangements of this section for band (1958) and orchestra (1967) titled Variations on a Shaker Melody . </P> <P> For many years part of the seventh movement of the orchestral suite was used as the opening music to CBS Reports . </P>

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