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A maximalist, composer of tone poems and some of the first modern operas.
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American composer, innovative and original.
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The father of twelve tone music
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A style that emerged in Germany via Arnold Schoenberg. All 12 notes are treated equally; tonality is abandoned.
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The 20th century saw the decline of maximalism, as it was coined by Richard Taruskin to describe the style of music of Mahler and Strauss.
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The most extreme timespan in music. There was no dominating style, the theme may be "variety".
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A technique developed by Pierre schaeffer that makes use of a tape recorder to splice together recorded natural sounds into a composition.
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Also called chance music, it is a style of composition in which the composer leaves some elements up to chance. No performance is the same.
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A style of repetitive music in which small units of musical material could be repeated with only slight variation over time.
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