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Ives
Laid Foundation for Aleatoric Music -
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Edgar Varese
Had a vision of new musical timbres and modern orchestration techniques -
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Cowell
Laid foundation for Aleatoric Music -
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Pierre Schaeffer
Developed Musique Concrete -
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Cage
American Composer -
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Babbit
Maximized Expressionism Composer -
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Non-tonal Music
Style of composition focused on musical elements other than pitch -
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Xenakis
Composed Indeterminate Music -
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Ligeti
Composed Textural Music -
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Stockhausen
Composed Indeterminate Music -
Crumb
Maximized Expressionism Composer -
John Williams
American Composer -
Penderecki
Composed Textural Music -
Philip Glass
American-Jewish Composer -
Corigliano
American Composer, addresses important social issues -
Zwilich
American Composer and Violinist -
Musique Concrete
Recorded Natural Sounds and altered them -
Paul Lansky
American Pioneer in digital sound synthesis -
John Adams
American Composer -
Andrew Lloyd Webber
British Composer -
Aleatoric Music
Chance Music -
Indeterminate Music
Based on Elements of chance, but could imply more directly three specified types of chance elements -
Electronische Musik
Electronic Music developed in Germany -
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Textural Music
Functioned alongside non-tonal music with its sound masses -
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Maximized Expressionism
Integral Serialism, Complete Complexity -
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Textural Piece -
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Minimalism
Repetitive Music -
Atmospheres
Textural Piece -
Neo-Romanticism
Tonally melodic music in a time of avant grade music -
Neo-Tonality
New mother tongue of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -
Postmodernism
Aesthetic attitude that focused on uniting many past elements of music into a new eclectic style -
Eric Whitacre
American Composer -
Totalism
Music that developed in NYC as a response to minimalism -
New Complexity
Abstract, dissonant, microtonal, and relies on extreme contrast as its desirable aesthetic trait. -
Globalization
Result of Technology which allows immediate exchange of ideas