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Leos Janacek
Czech composer who was influenced by folk music -
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Giacomo Puccini
Italian composer and librettist who strove for realism in his dramatic works -
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Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer who wrote large programmatic symphonies -
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Hugo Wolf
Wrote mostly Lieder and was influenced by Wagner -
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Claude Debussy
French composer and pianist and the inventor of musical impressionism -
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Frederick Delius
English composer of German descent who used impressionism -
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Richard Strauss
Composer of tone poems and some of the first modern operas -
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Jean Sibelius
Finnish composer whose music got more modern -
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Ferruccio Busoni
Important Italian composer who advocated moving away from "the tyranny of major and minor keys'; yet, his music sounds more conservative than his talk -
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Erik Satie
Not an impressionist, but a leader in new French aesthetics which impressionism was built -
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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
American composer and pianist who very successful in Europe -
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Enrique Granados
Catalan composer that is a representative composer of 19th century Spain -
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Scott Joplin
American composer that popularized ragtime -
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Aleksandr Skryabin
Influenced by chromaticism and impressionism who had complex original harmonic language. He was a virtuoso pianist that also had synesthesia -
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Ralph Vaughn Williams
Became the leader in English music -
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Sergei Rachmaninov
Not interested in nationalism. A master of melody and a virtuoso pianist -
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Maurice Ravel
French composer who was extremely versatile and an expert orchestrator -
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Gustav Holst
English composer who was influenced by folksong and Hindu mysticism -
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Manuel de Falla
The principal Spanish composer of the 20th century who used Spanish popular and folk music -
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Bela Bartok
Hungarian composer and pianist who was also an important ethnomusicologist. Known for his rhythmic music; he incorporated his own native folk music into his compositions -
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Nadia Boulanger
Important teacher of composers in the 20th century -
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Maximalism
Main composers:
Strauss
Mahler
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Impressionism
Main composers:
Debussy
Delius
Respighi
Ravel -
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Jazz Invented
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Stylistic Traits
many storytelling features
dissonance, tension, nonfunctional and tertian harmonies, and tertian harmonies, loss of tonality
cadences are frequently unresolved or blurred
polyphony
religious/mythical, feeling on the piece is extremely exaggerated
large scope of types of music composed
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First Motion Picture
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Spanish American War
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Francis Poulenc
French composer with a delicate and sometimes irreverent style -
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Expressionism
Main composers:
Schoenberg
Berg
Webern -
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World War 1
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Woman gained the right to vote
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Jukebox Invented