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Ragtime! Popularized ragtime.
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Original composer and important teacher.
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American. Most creative and innovative of the 20th-century composers.
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The father of 12-tone music. Teacher of Webern and Berg.
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Hungarian composer and pianist. Known for his rhythmic music. Incorporated his own native folk music into his compositions. Important ethnomusicologist.
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One of the most versatile and interesting composers of the 20th century. He wrote ballets, operas, and symphonies.
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Member of Les Six. Stage works, chamber music, orchestral music, piano works, and film scores. He turned communist.
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Term used to describe the style of music from Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. It was a style in which musical elements were pushed to the extreme.
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Member of Les Six. Choral music, chamber music, symphonies. Admired Bach greatly.
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Member of Les Six. 12 operas, 4 ballets, film and television scores.
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Member of Les Six. One of the first to use jazz in concert music. Came to the U.S. in 1940.
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American composer, pianist, and conductor. Worked in Hollywood and successfully fused jazz and pop music.
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Member of Les Six. his style was delicate and sometimes irreverent.
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Member of Les Six. By the age of 15 he had written over 200 works: 1 opera, ballets, and chamber music.
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American jazz composer, band-leader and pianist. Created a unique style of big-band jazz. One of the first African American composers to cross races with his music. Apparently he wasn't so great to his musicians.
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Popular American composer of the 20th century. Teacher conductor and author.
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Revolutionized jazz. African American jazz musician who played trumpet, sang, and was a band-leader.
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Published in 1940 by Charles Ives
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Most important Russian composer.
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American composer. Innovative treatment of rhythm and form, contributed compositions to the 21st century.
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French composer, author, and organist. Was the first to advocate tonal serialism. Liked incorporating nature sounds.
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American composer and philosopher. Changed the definition of music.
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An American composer who is most well known for expressing despair during the Vietnam war. His works comprised of vocal, string quartets and sonatas.
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American composer and conductor. He has done many well-known movie scores and is considered to be one of the best film score composers in America
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An American-Jewish composer and performer. He created many dramatic works, and is one of the innovators of minimalism.
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Far-reaching compositional effects on modern music. It takes recorded natural sounds and then manipulates them using technology.
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By Aaron Copland
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American composer and conductor who is one of our leading composers of post-minimalistic music.
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A poem about rejection of love due to color.
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Chance music; a new concept of composition in which the composer left one or more musical elements up to the performer.
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Music that was based on elements of chance. Aleatoric music was a precursor to indeterminate music.
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A repetitive music style that emerged in 1960 and came to its artistic height in 1980.
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American composer, conductor, and lecturer. He is especially known for his virtual choir project. He writes in neo-tonal style.
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A label of music that appeals to the audience, who is hoping for music they can understand. Most romantic elements of melody; harmony and texture are also present.
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American composer and teacher; active commissions in the 21st century.
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A term used o describe music that has developed among composers working in New York City as a response to minimalism.
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A result of technology, which allowed for immediate exchange of ideas and for the access to music and cultural practices from anywhere.
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(The musical this time)