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Richard Strauss
-German Composer -maximalist -German composer -Liked Wagner's use of chromaticism -famous tone poems and operas -conservative conductor -
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Charles Ives
-American composer -made much of his money as an insurance agent -music was extremely dissonant due to the way his father brought him up -was not widely supported by some people but did have several composers support -Pulitzer prize winner -
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Igor Stravinsky
-Composed many different styles
-Rite of Spring
-Tonal but also used harsh dissonances
-Did use polyrhythm as well as polytonality -
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Florence Price
-American composer -first black female composer to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra -first performed on piano at age 4 -presented as Mexican to avoid being discriminated against -
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Nadia Boulanger
-taught many of the most important American composers from the 20th century -reject George Gershwin -mostly taught as opposed to composing -
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Sergei Prokofiev
-Russian composer -wrote Peter and the Wold -wrote seven symphonies -maximalist -classism -individual harmonic language -rhythmic drive -lyrical expression -comedic -
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William Grant Still
-first black American composer to have a symphony performed -first black American to conduct a major orchestra -raised in Arkansas born in Mississippi -went to New England Conservatory -
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Henry Cowell
-taught John Cage -a big supporter of Charles Ives -coined the term "tone cluster" -created terms for much of the techniques Ives used -
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Duke Ellington
-Band leader in Swing Era and then big band era
-composed many tunes and film scores
-Took credit for work his bandmates did -
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Aaron Copland
-composer, teacher, conductor -taught at Harvard -wrote several extremely influential pieces including 'Appalachian Spring' and 'Fanfare for the Common Man' -vigorous, open sounding, clean -inspired by French, American folk, and Mexican -
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Elliot Carter
-American composer and teacher -
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Oliver Messiaen
-Serialist French composer
-Bird songs in music -
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John Cage
-Created the modern definition of music
-Created the piece 4'33''
-Modern composer -
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Billie Holiday
-Leading female jazz singer
-Renditions of blues songs -
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Billy Strayhorn
-Take the A Train -Collaborated with Ellington -
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Milton Babbitt
-American compsoer, and theorist
-Interested in computer music -
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Pierre Boulez
-Most important composer of French Avant-garde -
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Luciano Berio
-Leading modern Italian composer of the day
-Established electronic studio in Milan -
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
-German composer
-Experimental music
-Electronic Music -
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George Crumb
-American Avant-garde composer -
Bebop
-Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonius Munk, Bud Powell
-Fast notes, syncopation, dissonant solos -
Appalacian Spring
-Written by Aaron Copland
-Play
-Majorly influential to other composers -
Rock N' Roll
-Founders were Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley
-many different subgenres
-Some elements of blues -
West Side Story
-American Play
-Leonard Bernstein