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John Philip Sousa
-Bandmaster, known for marches
-Promoted the American Wind-Band tradition in American and Europe -
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Arnold Schoenberg
-Austrian Composer, theorist, and painter
-Admired Brahms
-Went Atonal circa 1907 -
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Charles Ives
-One of the most innovative and original composition
-Ives style traits- Polytonality, Polyrhythms, Polymeter, Limited atonality -
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Anton Webern
-Part of the Second Vinnese School -
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Igor Stravinsky
-Russian Composer, musical style changed overtime
-The Rite of Springs, Firebird -
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Robert Nathaniel Dett
-Canadian American composer, pianist, and help find the National Association of Negro Muscians NANM -
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Luigi Russolo
-Italian futurist, painter, composer, builder of experimental musical intruments wrote a creed or manifesto titled " The Art of Noises" -
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Florence Price
-First Black Female composer to have a symphony performed by American Orchestral Symphony No.1 in E minor -
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Nadia Boulanger
-Taught practically all 20th Century execpt George Gershwin -
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Sergi Prokofied
-Russian Composer; orchestral pieces, piano works, and film music "Peter and The Wolf" 1936 -
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William Grant Still
-First balck american composer to have a major symphony and opera performed by a major ensemble 1931, 1936
-First Black american to conduct a major symphony orchestra 1936 -
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Henry D. Cowell
-John Cage's teacher
-American composer, innovator, teacher
-Supported Charles Ives
-Invented new techniques for piano -
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Federico Garcia Lorca
-Spanish Poet -
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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
-American Composer and pianist -
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Aaron Copland
-Composer, teacher, critic, conductor,
-Taught at Harvard and gave lectures
-Style of music- Vigorou, tonal, transparent -
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Elliot Carter
-American Composer
-Influential as a teacher and as a composer for 50 years -
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Oliver Messiaen
-French Composer
-Incorporatedbird songs into his music -
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John Cage
-American Composer, theorist, and philosopher
-He invented prepare piano -
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Billy Strayhorn
-American Jazz Composer
-Collaborated with Duke Ellington -
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Billie Holiday
-Her real name is Eleanora Fagan
-American Jazz and Swing singer
-Known for being a lead Jazz singer -
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Milton Babbitt
-American Composer & Pianist
-Known for Electronic Music -
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Leonard Berstein
-American composer, conductor, music educator -
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Gyorgy Legeti
-Hungarian Austrian Composer of contemporary classical music -
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Pierre Boulez
-French Composer
-Dominant figure of the Post-War classical music world -
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Luciano Berio
-Italian Composer
-Known for electronic music
-Established the electronic studio in Milan -
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
-German Composer -
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The Great Depression
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George Crumb
-American Composer of modern classical music -
The Invention of the Electrical Guitar
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John Willimas
-American Composer
-Known for composing Cinamtic pieces
-Performed for President Obama's Inaguaration -
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The Swing Era
-Form of Jazz Improvation
-After the Great Depression -
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World War II
-Germany invades Poland -
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Big Band Era
-Bigger jazz Groups
-Dominated Jazz in early 1940's when the swing was popular -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
-The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
-U.S.A Enters war -
Appalachin Spring
-Ballet for Martha Graham who was the lead dancer -
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Bebop
-The new form of Jazz, late 1940's -
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Musique Concrete
-New musical Style -
Prepare Piano
-John Cage created -
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Rock 'N' Roll
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Quater Tone Music
-Occured when first comouter music first emerge -
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Film Music became more Prominent
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Invention of Widespread Cinema
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Role of Silence in Music (Cage)
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Serialist Period
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West Side Story (Bernstein)
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George Gershwin
-American composer, pianist
-Did not get taught by Nadia Boulanger