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Composer - John Phillip Sousa
Bandmaster known for many different popular marches, conductor for The President's Own Marine Band -
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Composer - Charles Ives
One of the greatest American composers of the 20th century. Used styles such as harmonizing in different keys, played familiar tunes and rhythms in 2 meters or 2 keys at once, and used instruments with quarter tones. -
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R. Nathaniel Dett
Pianist who helped found the National Association of Negro Musicians (1919) -
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Edgard Varèse
French American composer, important in the electronic music field. -
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Composer - Florence Price
Price was the first black female composer of a major American symphony, began composing around 1910 -
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Composer - Sergei Prokofiev
Prokofiev was a Russian composer, his most popular work was Peter and the Wolf in 1936. He used elements such as comedy, classicism and rhythmic drive. -
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Composer - William Grant Still
First Black American to conduct and compose a piece for a major symphony. He blended blues and spirituals with traditional European styles. -
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Henry Cowell
Invented chance music as well as new techniques for piano. Used the term tone clusters, which means a group of highly dissonant notes. -
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Composer - George Gershwin
American composer who wrote classical music infused with jazz. -
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Duke Ellington
Major band leader in the swing era and the big band era, composed many different tunes. -
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Composer - Aaron Copland
American composer and conductor. His style was mainly tonal but included mixed meters, a lot of solos and transparent textures. Copland studied with Nadia Boulanger in his twenties. -
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Undisguised Avant-garde
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Composer - Olivier Messiaen
French composer and teacher known for incorporating bird songs into his music. -
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John Cage
Used many modern compositional techniques, had many ideas which contributed to him defining music as organized sound. -
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World War I
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Billie Holiday
One of the most popular female jazz singers, performed with white bands, was known for her renditions of blues songs -
Rise of Jazz Music
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Milton Babbitt
American composer and music theorist who wrote a popular article titled "The Composer as Specialist" -
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Leonard Bernstein
American conductor, composer and pianist who wrote the popular musical West Side Story, which is so popular due to his complex music. -
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György Ligeti
Hungarian composer whose style included clusters of sounds and electronic music -
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Composer - Pierre Boulez
The most important composer and conductor of the French avant-garde -
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Composer - Luciano Berio
Most popular Italian composer of the 20th century -
The Wall Street Crash
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Composer - Henryk Górecki
Was highly successful, his style included neo-tonality, clusters and emotional symbolism. -
Porgy and Bess
Was written by Gershwin to be an American folk opera, was the first opera with an all black cast. -
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Philip Glass
A pioneer of Minimalism, is one of the most famous composers alive. -
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John Corigliano
Composer who is famous for his film score of The Red Violin (1997) -
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World War II
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Appalachian Spring
One of Copland's biggest orchestral suites, was created for Martha Graham who danced lead in the ballet. -
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Paul Lansky
American composer and theorist, a pioneer in digital sound synthesis. -
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John Adams
American composer who combined New Romanticism and minimalism to create a Post-minimalist style. -
Electronische Musik
Created in Germany, Karlheinz Stockhausen was a central innovater, led to our modern synthesizer -
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Minimalism
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Jennifer Higdon
American composer who wrote a popular piece named Blue Cathedral in 2000. -
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Globalization
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The bombing of the twin towers