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John Philip Sousa
Bandmaster known for marches. -
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Scott Joplin
Ragtime composer. -
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Charles Ives
American composer known for his use of polytonality, polyrhythm, and polymeters. -
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Florence Price
First black female composer to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra. -
Blues
The blues style is characterized by bent pitches and derived from black performance traditions. -
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Sergei Prokofiev
Russian composer who written orchestral, piano, and film pieces. -
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William Grant Still
First black American to conduct a major symphony orchestra. -
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George Gershwin
Classical composer and virtuoso pianist. -
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Duke Ellington
Jazz composer. -
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Aaron Copland
Composer, teacher, critic, conductor and sponsor of concerts. -
The Unanswered Question
Orchestral piece written by Charles Ives. -
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Olivier Messiaen
Seriealist French composer and teacher. -
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John Cage
Composer who helped changed the definition of music to "organized sound." -
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Billy Strayhorn
Jazz composer. -
Jazz
The jazz style rose around this time, characterized by both popular and art music traditions with African roots. -
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Leonard Bernstein
Theatrical composer -
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György Ligeti
Hungarian composer. -
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer who made innovations in experimental and electronic music. -
George Crumb
Composer known for use of non-western musical idioms. Created a new spacial notation to accommodate his musical innovations. -
Lieutenant Kijé
Film score written by Prokofiev. -
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Henryk Górecki
Composer characcterized by strong emotional symbolism, slow harmonix movement, and neo-tonality. -
Porgy and Bess
First opera with and all black cast composed by George Gershwin. -
Peter and the Wolf
Orchestral piece written by Prokofiev. Comissioned to cultivate musical taste in children. -
A Train
Composed by Billy Strayhorn, but recieve little credt. -
Bebop
Characterized by fast tempo and dissonant solos. -
Musique Concrete
Relied on sounds made by a natural source. -
Appalachian Spring
Ballet written by Aaron Copland -
West Side Story
Theater performance with the score composed by Leonard Bernstein.