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Paul Dukas
French composer, teacher, and critic; only allowed a few of his works to be published. -
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Carl Nielsen
Danish; prolific and important to the history of Scandinavian music. -
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Jean Sibelius
tone poems, his later music is more modern. -
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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
American composer and pianist; very successful in Europe; conservative style. -
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Scott Joplin
Ragtime, 1 opera, marches, waltz. American and popularized ragtime -
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Aleksandr Skryabin
influenced by chromaticism and impressionism; complex original harmonic language -
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Arnold Schoenberg
the father of 12-tone music; important as an innovator; teacher of Webern and Berg. -
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Gustav Holst
influenced by folksong and Hindu mysticism; original composer and important teacher. -
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Charles Ives
American; most innovative, original and creative of all 20th-century composers. worked in isolation. -
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Bela Bartok
Hungarian composer and pianist; important ethnomusicologist; known for his rhythmic music; incorporated his own native folk music into compositions/ -
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Igor Stravinsky
one of the most versatile and interesting composers of the 20th century, wrote symphonies, ballets, operas. -
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Anton von Webern
Student of Schoenberg; known for his musical brevity and clarity of texture; uses pointillism, wrote no operas. -
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Edgard Varese
French-American; wrote non-tonal music; focusing on elements other than pitch; innovative took interest in electronic music. -
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Alban Berg
Student of Schoenberg; expressive language; often atonal. -
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Louis Durey
Stage works, orchestral works, chamber music, pianos works, film scores. Turned communist in 1936
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Ragtime
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Maximalism
This term was to describe the style of music from Gustav Mahler and Richard Stauss. It was a style in which musical elements were pushed to the extreme. -
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Arthur Honegger
Choral music, Chamber music, 5 symphonies. From Switzerland; admired Bach
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Darius Milhaud
Friends with Satie; used polytonality. One of the first to use jazz in concert music. came to the US in 1940 Member of Les Six (Famous group of Six French composers) -
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Germaine Tailleferre
12 operas, 4 ballets, film, and television scores. too modest; beautiful music. Member of Les Six (Famous group of Six French composers) -
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William Grant
wrote blues, first black conductor for symphonies @1936 -
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George Gershwin
American composer, pianist, and conductor. Worked in Hollywood; he successfully fused jazz and pop music. -
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Duke Ellington
American jazz composer, band-leader and pianist; created a unique style of big-band jazz. One of the first African-American composer to cross races with his music. -
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Georges Auric
by the age of 15, he had written over 200 works. 1 opera, ballets, chamber music. Member of Les Six (Famous group of Six French composers) -
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Francis Poulenc
delicate and sometimes irreverent style; harmonically charming. Member of Les Six (Famous group of Six French composers) -
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Aaron Copland
Popular American composer of the 20th century; teacher, conductor, author; his music still has a special appeal to the American public. -
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Louis Armstrong
Trumpet African-American jazz musician. Revolutionized jazz; singer, band-leader -
Unanswered Question
By Charles Ives, Published 1940 -
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Dimitri Shostakovich
Most important Russian composer working in Russia, 15 Symphonies -
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Elliot Carter
American composer, innovative treatment of rhythm and form; contributed compositions into the 21st century. String quartets, Stage works -
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Olivier Messiaen
French composer, author, and organist; incorporated sounds of nature; the first to advocate total serialism. -
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Samuel Barber
American composer and accomplished singer; child prodigy and gifted melodist; had a successful conservative tonality in the midst of the 20th century musical experimentations. -
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John Cage
many works of non-traditional genre, American composer and philosopher; most innovative composer, changed the definition of music used indeterminacy. -
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Leonard Bernstein
American conductor, composer, teacher, author, pianist. Most influential American musician of the 20th century. Brought classical music to the public via various media -
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Benjamin Britten
17 operas, most prolific and best-known English composer of the century; kept opera alive in English speaking countries -
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Jazz
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Milton Babbitt
American composer that denied the importance of his audience. -
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Non-tonal
The music style that focused on musical elements other than pitch. -
George Crumb
American composer, most popular for expressing despair during the Vietnam War. Had vocal works, string quartets and sonatas -
John William
80 film scores, American composer and conductor; considered once of the best film score composers in America. -
Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish composer; wrote textural music using sound blocks; his atonal music has public appel; Polan's greatest living composer. -
Philip Glass
American-Jewish composer and performer; one of the innovators of minimalism; he is one of the most influential composers. Has dramatic works. -
Musique concrete
far-reaching compositional effects on modern music. took recorded natural sounds and then manipulated the sound using technology. -
Appalachian Spring
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John Adams
American composer and conductor; expanded the new language of minimalism and neo0romanticism; one of our leading composers of post0minimalist music. -
A Black Pierrot
A poem that rejected love due to his color -
Aleatoric
chance music, a new concept of composition in which the composer left one or more musical elements to the performer -
Electonische Musik
developed in Germany, using the fusion of technology and acoustic music to create a different aesthetic. -
Indeterminate
music that was based on elements of chance. The first type of indeterminate music presented itself as aleatoric music. -
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Minimalism
a repetitive music style that emerged in 1960 and came to its artistic height in 1980. it was based on the notion that small units of musical material. -
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Eric Whitacre
American composer, conductor, and lecturer; especially known for his Virtual Choir project and large, online musical performances; writes in neo-tonal style -
Neo-Romanticism
A label of music that appeals to the audience who are hoping for music they can understand. Most romantic elements of melody. harmony and texture are present. -
Kyle Kindred
American composer and teacher; active commissions in the 21st century. -
Totalism
a term used recently to describe music that developed among composers working in New York City as a response to Minimalism.
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Globalization
a direct result of technologies, which allowed for immediate exchange of ideas and for the access to music and cultural practices from anywhere. -
Ragtime
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Become Ocean
by John Luther Adams, won a Pulitzer Prize