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innovator of the US wind bands and famous for is marches. he attempted operas with little to no success.
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moat of his works were not known untill the 10950's. his father shaped his music style, harmonies in the "wrong key", playing tunes in two different keys, etc. Known for polytonality, polyrhythms, polymeters, and limited tonality.
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Helped found the National Association of Negro Musicians in 1919
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Italian painter and composer who built experimental musical instruments and wrote "The Art of Noise" for them. he created his own type of notations for the sounds these instruments made as well.
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American African American woman
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taught most of the 20th century composers except George Gershwin who she refused to teach. she was a composer herself but she preferred to help others "find their voice".
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one of John Philip Sousa's famous marches. I've played it before it was a typical march.
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American genre derived from Black American performance traditions that used bent pitches (blues pitches). the text is often about hardships of love gone wrong.
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Russian composer who wrote incidental music, film music, etc. an example of one of his works is "Peter and the Wolf"
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German composer who wrote for practicing musicians
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first American black composer to have an opera performed by a major ensemble and the first to conduct a major symphony orchestra. he blended African American idioms with symphonies, operas, and ballets
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American composer who supported Ives and was John Cage's teacher. He was one of the innovators of indeterminate music. he also coined the term tone cluster
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American composer who worked in Hollywood. he fused Jazz and pop music. Wrote Rhapsody in Blue!
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Swing composer and his real name was Edward Kennedy Ellington. composed hundreds of tunes, film scores, etc. but was mostly known fir his jazz tunes.
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composer who wrote in many genres but not a lot of works. he wrote mostly tonal music but did write a few atonal works. his style was filled with folk songs and folk idioms, mixed meters, and as little notes a possible so very open intervals.
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written by Charles Ives that was not published till 1940. The trumpet (or substituted instrument) asks the same question though the piece and the woodwinds answer with increasing agitation.
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American composer and teacher for 50 years.
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Serialist French composer known for incorporating bird songs into his music and had religious themes in them.
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one of Cowell's ground breaking pieces that used tone clusters.
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American composer who used indeterminacy.
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Female jazz singer who broke the racial barriers by performing with white bands. Also known for her renditions of blues songs.
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American composer interested in computer music. he wrote an artical that was titled “The Composer as Specialist” but was published as “Who Cares if You Listen?”
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American musical style that got its roots from west African music, call and response singing, 19th century African American ceremonial and work music. there are many types of jazz music such as New Orleans style, Dixieland Jazz, and scat singing.
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composer of West Side Story which was complex music compared to the rest of the musicals being made at the time.
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Hungarian composer interested in clusters of sounds in orchestra an choir music. a piece he wrote called A Space Odyssey became well known much later after it was written.
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The most important composer of the French avant-garde
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modern Italian composer and helped establish the electronic studio
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German composer who innovated electronic music and other types of experimental music
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the biggest stock market crash in history that left millions of people unemployed and nearly half the banks failed.
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American composer known for his anti- Vietnam war ideals. Created a new spatial notation to accommodate his musical innovations.
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created by Alan Dower Blumlein
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an extremely successful composer whose style consisted of slow harmonic movement, Neo-tonality, and clusters
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first opera to have a completely black cast. an American folk Opera written by Gershwin.
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highly improvisational style of jazz known as big band groups who played in this style.
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a character piece written by Sergei Prokofiev where the instruments all played a different character and a narrator told the story of that the piece was portraying
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second world war
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the use of natural sounds like water dripping of, a cat's meow, instruments, etc. and recording it manipulating its sound to be used for making music.
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Japanese attacked Pear Harbor via kamikaze
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A ballet written by Aaron Copland for Martha Graham who was the lead dancer and choreographer. It portrays a pioneer celebration in spring around a newly-built farmhouse in the Pennsylvania hills
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the thing was huge!
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alternative, "cool" style of jazz made for younger listeners. known by the upper chord tones such as the ninth, eleventh and thirteenths. some of the prominent performers are Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, etc.
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inspired by Arnold Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire”. was rejected and never succeeded. its harmony was chromatic and the piece was considered through composed with a blues influence.
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the music making is left completely to chance such as rolling a die to determine the notes, then rolling a die to determine rhythm, etc.
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music that is totally left to three types chance. the first being aleatoric music. the second focused mostly on the composition of the music being left to chance. the third being a different type of notation letting the players interpretation being the "chance".
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electronic music developed in Germany which led to our modern synthesizer
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aimed for the teenage listeners. Blended the musical styles of jump blues, honky-tonk, and an edgy attitude to create a new genre
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electronically produced sounds for music.
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also known as the Second Indochina War. It was communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States.
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using the smallest amount of pitches, rhythms, and chords repeatedly over a long period of time to make music. basically the opposite of maximalism.
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created and replaced records
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the beginnings of what would eventually become what we know as the modern internet.
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a song cycle of five songs and two instrumental interludes about poems by Federico Garcia Lorca
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Enables computer interactions with synthesizers and sequences.