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During the twenties, he invented a series of music instruments named “rumorarmoni”, "enharmonic bow," "enharmonic piano" and appeared in three short Futurist films, for which he also composed the music.
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Conductor, organist, and one of the most influential teachers of musical composition of the 20th century.
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Concert venue is Midtown Manhattan in New York
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Founded by Theodore Thomas
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Only female composer (GIRL POWER!!) in Les Six group. Had a contribution in the French musical movement as well as in the realms of music.
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John Phillip was not satisfied by the Military Band classic repertoire, so he decided to combine all the elements of his favorite ensembles, coming up with a "Military Band" that could sound life a symphony orchestra.
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One of the principal German composers of the first half of the 20th century and a leading musical theorist.
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American composer who wrote primarily for the Broadway musical theatre.
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Composer who made an important contribution to French music in the decades after World War I.
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Mexican conductor and composer whose music combines elements of traditional folk songs and modern compositional techniques.
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Ellington was a major figure in the history of jazz music, his career spanned more than half a century, during which time he composed thousands of songs for the stage, screen and contemporary songbook.
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He became one of the century’s foremost composers with highly influential music that had a distinctive blend of classical, folk and jazz idioms.
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One of the most influential artists in jazz history. He played in marching and jazz bands, becoming skillful enough to replace Oliver in the important Kid Ory band about 1918, and in the early 1920s he played in Mississippi riverboat dance bands.
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Russian composer, renowned particularly for his 15 symphonies, numerous chamber works, and concerti, many of them written under the pressures of government-imposed standards of Soviet art.
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American composer, a musical innovator whose erudite style and novel principles of polyrhythm, called metric modulation, won worldwide attention.
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Influential French composer, organist, and teacher noted for his use of mystical and religious themes. As a composer he developed a highly personal style noted for its rhythmic complexity, rich tonal color, and unique harmonic language.
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American composer who is considered one of the most expressive representatives of the lyric and Romantic trends in 20th-century classical music.
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American composer and theorist known as a leading proponent of total serialism.
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Flamboyant, inspired and voracious in his conducting style. Was one of the first American composers to lead world class orchestras.
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An intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.
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The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded as often as one another in a piece of music while preventing the emphasis of any one note through the use of tone rows, orderings of the 12 pitch classes. All 12 notes are thus given more or less equal importance, and the music avoids being in a key.
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Romanian-born French composer, architect, and mathematician who originated musique stochastique, music composed with the aid of electronic computers and based upon mathematical probability systems.
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The Great Depression was triggered by the stock market crash in 1929 and was worsened by the Dust Bowl in 1930.
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First African American to conduct a professional symphony orchestra in the United States. He was best known for his Afro-American Symphony (1931)