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American composer that invented atonality.
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A non-tonal composer who sued modern orchestration techniques.
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Wrote songs for French Resistance in WW2. Also wrote some Vietnamese themes in 1960 to protest the war.
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He composed in all mediums, most of the time for commissions.
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Studied with Debussy and rejected impressionism. Was heavily influenced by his trip to Brazil in 1918 as well as American Jazz.
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While an amazing composer she usually doubted herself. She lived the longest out of all of Le Six
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An American composer and teacher who experimented to create modern methods of music.
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American composer influenced by folk music.
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Neo-Classicist composer who composed mainly film music.
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Went to meet Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg but rejected their styles.
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American jazz composer who used a unique big band style.
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Most popular American composer of the 20th century.
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Developed musique concrete by using a tape recorder to record and use sounds in 1940
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Lectured on Indeterminate music style and focused on the subtle difference of composition.
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Benjamin Britten is one of the best-known composers of the 20th century.
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Used maximized expressionism going into an emotional flurry in his works.
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American conductor, composer, teacher, and one of the most influential musicians of the 2oth century. Brought classical music to the public.
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This music was a style of a composition that focused on musical elements rather than pitch.
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CBS broadcasts the NY philharmonic live over the radio for the first time and will continue to do performances with the NY philharmonic.
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Congress approves The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key as the U.S. national anthem.
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Amelia Earhart becomes the 1st woman to fly alone across the Atlantic.
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After 15 long years of Prohibition, alcohol becomes legal in the USA.
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Neo-Classicalism is known for its contrapuntal texture and emphasis of rhythm.
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Far-reaching effects on modern music thanks to french composer Pierre Schaeffer who developed it using a tape recorder. It included recording sounds and manipulating them to make music.
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Also music based on the element of chance but focused on three types of chance.
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Also known as chance music, it is a new concept which the composer left some of the musical elements in the performance up to chance. This way every performance is unique.
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While including integral serialism was a dream to composers who wanted a complicated style. It is seen as the highest form of expressionism.
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Functioning alongside Non-Tonal music with waves of sound called sound masses.
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Developed in Germancy in the 1950's. This style uses mixtures of other modern styles and then digitalizes the sound. It became very popular and heavily mixed with Musique concrete's recorded sounds.
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A style of repetitive music which emerged in the late 1960s and came to its height in the 1980s. The idea is that a short phrase can be repeated with slight changes each time.
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Although it does have more dissonances than Romanticism it does follow the style in other areas. The music tended to be more melody and harmony.
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Becoming the new amazing style of the 20th century it focused specifically on tonality. With this starts the bridging of the gap of consonance and dissonance.
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An aesthetic attitude developed in the late 1970s that focuses on uniting past styles into an electric style. This is the style that bridged electronic music into modern pop.
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A term which was developed to mainly describe music from composers in New York City responding to minimalism. Persues the paved path of Maximalism using complexity above all.
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This music is usually very abstract, dissonant, and relies on extreme contrast. Has very close ties to Totalism
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As a direct result of technology like YouTube and other websites it opened composers eyes. How we think of learning different styles changed completely bringing music to a new age within 2000.