Copeland

Copeland is an English surname, originally indicating someone from a place called Copeland in Cumbria.

Notable bearers include jazz pianist and educator Stewart Copeland's father, though Stewart himself—drummer for The Police—made the name familiar to rock audiences.

The composer Aaron Copland spelled it without the e.

composer

Aaron

Old Testament priest

symphony · score · conductor · classical · modernist · Pulitzer · Tanglewood · Bernstein · twentieth-century

surname

family

Related people together

clan · heritage · bloodline · descendants · relatives · forebears · kinship · dynasty · pedigree · patronymic

Opposites
musical style and accessibility

Copelandatonal

Without musical key

serialist · twelve-tone

national musical identity

CopelandIgor Stravinsky

European · Old World

Family

cope, land, lands, landed, landing, coped, coping, copes

Familiarity
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Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G