Appalachian Spring's Wikipedia article is a community-edited encyclopedia entry, covering Aaron Copland's 1944 ballet score, its 1945 Pulitzer Prize, its commission for choreographer Martha Graham, and its use of the Shaker tune Simple Gifts. Its strength is stable, documentable compositional and premiere facts, corroborated by the Aaron Copland estate's own site and the Martha Graham Dance Company. Its limit is that a claim about Shaker theology itself needs a source on the Shakers directly, not a music encyclopedia article. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Spring
Source Typereference
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
A continuously revised, community-edited encyclopedia article, its compositional and premiere facts corroborated by the Aaron Copland estate's own site and the Martha Graham Dance Company, matching this corpus's settled precedent for Wikipedia citations. Connections
Associated With
This source names Shakers directly: "theology itself needs a source on the Shakers directly, not a music encyclopedia article."
Source Appalachian Spring (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Claims Backed By This Source (27 claims)
This source backs 27 claims across the atlas. As facts: 22 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 1 connected. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Musical Works, 11 claims: 9 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Articles, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
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