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Composer: Aleksandr Skryabin
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Composer: Sergei Rachmaniov
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Rite of Spring
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Composer: Zoltan Kodaly
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Composer: Edgar Varese
Electronic Music
French American composer
percussion music -
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Composer: Alban Berg
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Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos
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Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
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Composer: Paul Hindemith
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Composer: William Grant Still
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Composer: Duke Ellington
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Composer: Carlos Chavez
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Composer: Aaron Copland
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Composer: Louis Armstrong
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Composer: Dimitri Shostakovich
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Composer: Elliot Carter
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Composer: Olivier Messiaen
Serialist French composer and teacher
bird songs
religious music -
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Composer: Samuel Barber
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Composer: John Cage
Strove to encompass all sound
silence=music?
Defined music as it is today- "organized sound"
Memorable Works
- 4'33"
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Composer: Benjamin Britten
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Composer: Milton Babbitt
American Composer
"Who Cares if You Listen?" article
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Composer: Leonard Bernstein
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Style: Non-tonal
Focused on musical elements other than pitch. Edgard Varese. New musical timbres and modern orchestration techniques -
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Composer: Pierre Boulez
Most important composer and conductor of the French avant-garde -
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Composer: Karlheinz Stockhousen
German composer who made innovations in electronic music and influenced the creation of the synthesizer -
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Composer: John Williams
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Composer: Krzysztof Penderecki
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Composer: Terry Riley
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Composer: Philip Glass
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Style: Musique concrete
French style
Sounds made by natural source
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Composer: Paul Lansky
American composer, theorist, professor at Princeton, and critic
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Composer: John Adams
American composer who successfully combined elements of New Romanticism and minimalism into a post minimalist style -
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Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Size of a classroom
very little power -
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Style: Aleatoric
Chance/ roll of the dice
Greatly influenced by John Cage
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Style: Indeterminate
Based on chance
Very Specific
Cage -
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Style: Electronische Musik
Developed in Cologne, Germany
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Style: Textural
Similar to non-tonal
Sound masses/ blocks
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Style: Maximized Expressionism
Integral serialism
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Tape Music
Musique concrete elements
electronically produced sounds
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The Synthesizer
RCA
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Style: Minimalism
Repetition
Changes are gradual
Slight changes become major events
Simple -
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Style: Neo-Romanticism
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Style: Post-Modernism
Continued Serialism (Schoenberg/12 tone system)
Freer Forms -
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Composer: Eric Whitacre
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Style: Totalism
Response to minimalism by new york composers
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Style: New Complexity
Similar to Totalism
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MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
Incorporated into all new synthesizers in '83. How computers and electronic instruments talked to each other.