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John Phillip Sousa
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Gustav Mahler
An Austrian composer. Embraced maximalism. -
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Claude Debussy
French composer and pianist who invented impressionism. -
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Richard Strauss
Another maximalist, composer of tone poems and some of the first modern operas. -
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Charles Ives
American composer, innovative and original. -
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Arnold Schoenberg
The father of twelve tone music. -
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Maximalism
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Impressionism
No chord progressions, out of context melodies, this style comes across as vague in all aspects. -
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Post-Romanticism
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Opera spikes in popularity
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Phonograph invented, first recorded music
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Neo-Classicism
A return to the ideals of clarity and objectivity breathes new life into old forms. -
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Primitivism
Non-western subjects, folk-like. -
“Right of Spring” premiere in Paris
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Non-tonal
Rejects key signatures an tonality, treats all notes equally. -
Expressionism
This style rebels against musical convention. Harmonies can not be analyzed, atonality, and Schoenberg's 12 tone technique.