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Schoenberg
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Kodaly
Inventor of the Kodaly method, Kodaly was a Hungarian composer who specialized in ethnomusicology and linguistics, and was a pedagoge -
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Malipiero
Malipiero was an Italian composer and musicologist who also taught and edited music -
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Stravinsky
A neoclassic composer who used complex rhythms and dissonance -
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Varese
French composer who called his music "organized sound", in which rhythm was particularly important -
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Villa-lobos
Brazilian composer and conductor who played the cello, piano and guitar, and was incredibly important to 20th century Brazilian art song composition -
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Toch
Toch was an Austrian composer who wrote classical music and composed for films -
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Durey
Parisian composer, a part of Les Six, who help inspire their first album, wrote war resistance songs -
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Martin
Swiss composer who drew inspiration from his Christianity -
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Prokofiev
A Russian composer who played the piano -
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Honegger
Swiss Les Six composer who appreciated the architecture of music -
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Milhaud
Les Six composer, rejected impressionism, and became close friends with Tailleferre -
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Tailleferre
A French Les Six composer who was friends with Coco Chanel and had stage fright -
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Hindemith
German composer and violinist/violist who conducted and was an advocate for the Neue Sachlichkeit style -
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Still
First African American composer to have his opera performed in the New York City Opera -
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Sessions
American composer, conductor, and teacher of music who studied at Harvard at age 14 -
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Thomson
American composer and critic who helped develop the "American Sound" -
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Gershwin
American composer and pianist that spanned many genres, including classical and popular -
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Auric
Les Six composer who studied with Satie's teachers and ran SACEM -
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Poulenc
Les Six composer, self taught, rejected Schoenberg's style, his partner sang many of his songs -
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Ellington
American composer and conductor who lead a jazz group -
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Copland
American composer, teacher, and conductor who was referred to as the "Dean of American Composers" -
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Armstrong
American trumpeter, vocalist, composer and actor who was incredibly influential in Jazz -
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Shostakovich
Russian composer/pianist who had a unique harmonic language and historic importance -
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Samuel Barber
Composer from America who wrote orchestral and choral pieces, operas, ballets, and piano music -
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Schuman
American composer who won the Pulitzer prize, was also an arts administrator -
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Menotti
Italian-American composer/librettist who won two Pulitzer prizes -
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Cage
American composer and theorist who pioneered electroacoustic music and indeterminacy in music, and atypical use of instruments, specialized in post war avant-garde -
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Stylistic Traits
Melodic Freedom
Polychords and Tone Clusters
Dissonant Chords
12 Tone Clusters
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Genres
Maximalism
Minimalism
Impressionism
Expressionism
Jazz
Serialism
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The Vietnam War
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8-Track Tapes Invented
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Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space
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Auto-tune Invented