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Claude Debussy
French composer who invented impressionism -
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Jean Sibelius
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Maurice Ravel
French composer and innovator in pianistic styles -
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Igor Stravinsky
Wrote The Rite of Spring, produced jazz, rock, and classical styles. -
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Anton von Webern
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Louis Durey
French Composer part of Les Six -
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Sergei Prokofiev
Russian composer influential in western culture -
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Arthur Honegger
French Composer a part of Les Six who admired Bach -
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Darius Milhaud
Friends with Satie; used polytonality -
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Germaine Tailleferre
French composer a part of les six -
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George Gershwin
Influential American composer and conductor who worked in Hollywood -
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Georges Auric
French composer who by age 15 had composed over 200 works -
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Francis Poulenc
French composer a part of Les Six -
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Twentieth Century Music
Not dominated by one style. Began with drastic rebellions against past traditions and ended with going back to traditions. Polytonality, polyrhythms, polymers, polychords, and polyphonic techniques. -
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Neo-tonality
Music that was hard to understand, often included dissonance. -
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Impressionism
Introduced by Debussy. Ignored traditional rules of chords and all chords are treated as equal. -
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Expressionism
Introduced by Schoenberg. All tweaked notes are treated equal and tonality was abandoned. -
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Aleatoric
Composition that was left up to chance and was never the same twice. -
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Elektronische Musik
Fusion of technology and acoustic music -
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Non-tonal music
Focused on musical elements other than pitch -
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World War I
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World War II
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Musique Concrete
Taking a natural sound, such a water dripping, and mixing it with other natural sounds. -
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The Cold War
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Minimalism
Repetitive music that only uses small units of music. -
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Postmodernism
Focused on uniting past forms of music into an eclectic type.