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Scott Joplin
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Gustav Holst
Original composer and important teacher. -
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Charles Ives
American. Most creative and innovative of the 20th-century composers. -
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Arnold Shoenberg
The father of 12-tone music. Teacher of Webern and Berg. -
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Bela Bartok
Hungarian composer and pianist. Known for his rhythmic music. Incorporated his own native folk music into his compositions. Important ethnomusicologist. -
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Igor Stravinsky
One of the most versatile and interesting composers of the 20th century. He wrote ballets, operas, and symphonies. -
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Louis Durey
Member of Les Six. Stage works, chamber music, orchestral music, piano works, and film scores. He turned communist. -
Ragtime
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Maximalism
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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Arthur Honegger
Member of Les Six. Choral music, chamber music, symphonies. Admired Bach greatly. -
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Germaine Tailleferre
Member of Les Six. 12 operas, 4 ballets, film and television scores. -
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Darius Milhaud
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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George Gershwin
American composer, pianist, and conductor. Worked in Hollywood and successfully fused jazz and pop music. -
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Francis Poulenc
Member of Les Six. his style was delicate and sometimes irreverent. -
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George Auric
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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Duke Ellington
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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Aaron Copland
Popular American composer of the 20th century. Teacher conductor and author. -
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Louis Armstrong
Revolutionized jazz. African American jazz musician who played trumpet, sang, and was a band-leader. -
Unanswered Question
Published in 1940 by Charles Ives -
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Dimitri Shostakovich
Most important Russian composer. -
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Elliot Carter
American composer. Innovative treatment of rhythm and form, contributed compositions to the 21st century. -
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Olivier Messiaen
French composer, author, and organist. Was the first to advocate tonal serialism. Liked incorporating nature sounds. -
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John Cage
American composer and philosopher. Changed the definition of music. -
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Jazz
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George Crumb
An American composer who is most well known for expressing despair during the Vietnam war. His works comprised of vocal, string quartets and sonatas. -
John Williams
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 -
Philip Glass
An American-Jewish composer and performer. He created many dramatic works, and is one of the innovators of minimalism. -
Musique Concrete
Far-reaching compositional effects on modern music. It takes recorded natural sounds and then manipulates them using technology. -
Appalacian Spring
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John Adams
American composer and conductor who is one of our leading composers of post-minimalistic music. -
A Black Pierrot
A poem about rejection of love due to color. -
Aleatoric
Chance music; a new concept of composition in which the composer left one or more musical elements up to the performer. -
Indeterminate
Music that was based on elements of chance. Aleatoric music was a precursor to indeterminate music. -
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Minimalism
A repetitive music style that emerged in 1960 and came to its artistic height in 1980. -
Eric Whitacre
American composer, conductor, and lecturer. He is especially known for his virtual choir project. He writes in neo-tonal style. -
Neo-Romanticism
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. -
Kyle Kindred
American composer and teacher; active commissions in the 21st century. -
Totalism
A term used o describe music that has developed among composers working in New York City as a response to minimalism. -
Globalization
A result of technology, which allowed for immediate exchange of ideas and for the access to music and cultural practices from anywhere. -
Ragtime
(The musical this time)