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French painter from the impressionism
Impression sunrise by Monet is considered the first impressionist painting -
French painter from the impressionism
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was a French composer, organist, pianist and professor.
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promoted the American Wind-band tradition
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French composer and pianist
Was the first female composer to be awarded The Legion d`Honneur
Some important works:
Op. 19 La Seville, comic opera (1882)
Op. 20 Suite d`Orchestre (1881)
Op. 35 Six Etudes de concert (Enoch) (1886)
op. 89 Lolita. Caprice Espagnol (Enoch) (1890)
Les Reves (1891) -
English composer of Symphonies, piano works, choral music, chamber music, overtures
received international acclaim -
Italian opera composer, the most successful one after Verdi
Composed 10 Operas, vocal works, and a few chamber and instrumental works -
- Austrian Jewish composer and conductor
- Vienense, considered the heir of Mozart and Beethoven
- seen as one of the greatest composers of the romantic era
- was important in the transition from he romantic era to the modernism of the early 20th century
- mostly known for his symphonies
- made important expansions to symphonies and Lieder
- Conductor in Europe and the USA
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- Born in France
- Introduced musical impressionism Some compositions:
- La mer
- reverie
- Children's corner
- Prelude a lapses-midi d`un Faune
- Petit suite
- Estampes- L`isle Joyeuse
- Two books of preludes for piano solo
- Images (set of 3 pieces for piano solo)
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German composer
Best known for his opera (Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra (1909) and Salome (1905) being the most famous), Lieder, specially his Vier Letzte Lieder; his symphonyc poems: Till Eulenspiegels, Don Juan, andAlso Spake Zarathustra -
Became more widely known after his death
Was a French composer
Some of his pieces:
- Trois Gymnopedies (1888) for piano solo
- Je te Veux (1903) -
ragtime, 1 opera, marches and waltzes.
- American composer that popularized ragtime -
Was a Russian composer who was influenced by chromaticism and impressionism. His music had complex original harmonic language and he was a virtuoso pianist
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Austrian-American composer
created 12 tone music (serialism) -
one of the most innovative American composers of the 20th century
harmonizes tunes in "wrong key"
play on instruments that used quarter tones
played familiar tunes 2 keys at once
Polytonality
polyrhythms
quotations
limitated atonality -
French impressionist composer
credited with the first impressionist piano piece
One of his most famous pieces is Bolero, he also composed operas, ballets, orchestral and vocal works
innovator in pianistic style -
Picasso was an expressionist paintor
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Musical style changed often: Russian Period up to circa 1920; French period around 1910 while living in Paris; Neoclassical period circa 1920-54; and serialist (US) period, circa 1954-68 self-borrowed on his compositions, they were also rhythmically complex, essentially tonal but with sharp dissonance.
One of his most important pieces is "The Rite of Spring" Style elements: Hypnotic Ostinatos; Polymeters 6/7, 7/8, 5/8; polychords - Eb G Bb Db with E G# B; pentatonic, Russian font elements -
Pianist
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Composer of non-tonal music
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French American composer: percussion music
a pioneer in the field of electronic music -
Italian futurist painter, composer and builder of experimental musical instruments
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taught most American composers of the 20th century
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first black female to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra
first composition published at 11 years old
career flourished in Chicago -
part of Les six
Birn in Paris
wrote songs for the French Resistance during WWII
Wrote stage works, orchestral works, chamber music, piano works and film scores -
A style in which all musical elements are pushed to an extreme
- music thick with motives and themes, often for orchestra
- Extreme sizes of performance groups -
- Melody was not required to follow any traditional concept
- All chords were treated as equal, and there were no chord progressions
- Vague Harmonies
- Parallel chords were common, as well as dissonances
- Rhythmic vitality wasn't an aspect Use of pentatonic scales, whole tone, and other exotic scales
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Precursor to jazz
highly syncopated rhythms and sectional forms -
post-impressionist painter who had posthumous recognition.
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Russian composer
orchestral pieces, piano works, and film music
seven symphonies -
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born to Swiss parents, considered himself Swiss
composed mostly on commission
composed choral music, chamber music and 5 symphonies
part of les six -
French
Studied Debussy and rejected impressionism
Friends with Satie and Tailleferre
Traveld to Brazil in 1918 and that influenced his work, which was also influenced by American Jazz
part of les six -
Was a French composer, composed operas, ballets, film and television scores, orchestral works, choral music, songs, chamber music and piano works
part of les six -
First black American composer to have a symphony and opera performed by a major ensemble and to conduct a major symphony orchestra
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taught John cage
supporter of Ives
Invented chance music
invented new techniques for playing piano -
American composer: wrote classical, concert hall music infused with jazz and popular music
Wrote for Broadway, film, and the concert hall
Virtuoso pianist
most famous works include:
An American in Paris
Rhapsody in Blue
Porgy and Bess (opera)
Lady, Be Good!
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Was born in southern France, and studied composition with Satie teacher.
Neo-classicist
composed songs, piano works, opera, ballets, chamber music and film music
Was a music journalist
part of les six -
French composer part of les sis
born in Paris to rich parents
composed concertos, choral music, chamber music and piano works -
Edward Kennedy Ellington
Composed hundreds of tunes, film scores, concertos, concert pieces, and works for the theater. Most famous for Jazz tunes -
composer, teacher, critic, conductor and sponsor of concerts
compose in a variety of genres but not a huge amount of works
mostly atonal
vigorous
mixed meters -
Death of England`s queen Victoria
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orchestral work
composed by Ives
for three groups of instruments
strings
solo trumpet
wind quartet -
Important Spanish painter known by his surrealism work.
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American composer, influential as teacher and composer
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Serialist French composer and Teacher
known for incorporating bird songs into his music -
Germany and Austria
High level of dissonance
Extreme contrast in dynamics
Extremes of pitch
All notes are equal (no pitch or tonic to return to)
Constantly changing texture
No cadences (non-chord progression rules)
Focused on completely freeing the music from tonality -
- Return to the ideals of clarity and objectivity of the 18th century
- combined structures from the past with modern harmony, tonality and timbres
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A western visual art movement that borrowed non-Western subjects
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the most important American composer who kept romanticism alive during the 20th century
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by Cowell
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Innovated many compositional techniques
helped change the definition of music to "Organized Sound" -
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creed or manifesto written by Russolo
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- Stravinsky composed its music at the age of 31 (his music was ore rhythmically forceful than anything ever heard before) ; it was choreographed by Vaslar Nijinsky (radical and modernist) and its costumes were inspired by Pablo Picasso.
- two parts
- The ballet showed scenes of pagan Russian rituals, and its choreography required dancers to move in an awkward unconventional way "ugly and fat-footed"
- percussive orchestra, irregular accents, polyrhythmic - chaotic Both music and story radical
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An art movement of the European Avant-garde
it was a movement of anti-art thinking
reaction or artists and poets against the war and the bourgeois in Europe -
one of the leading female jazz singers
She broke racial barriers by performing with white bands -
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American composer
music theorist
teacher interested in computer music -
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Conductor
Composer
Teacher
Pianist
Lecturer
TV personality
composed musicals -
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The earliest recordings of Blues were made in the 1920s, but the style reaches back to the 1890s
musical genre derived from Black American performance traditions that used “blues notes”or bent pitches -
Focused on musical elements other than pitch
- percussion ensembles benefited from this style -
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Hungarian composer
Interested in clusters of sounds
Active in electronic music and as a teacher
developed a process of interweaving many separate strands into a complex polyphonic fabric -
leading modern Italian composer of the 20th century
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Important composer and conductor of the French "avant-garde"
experimented with serialism -
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Made inovations in eletronic music
German composer -
American composer, best known for his anti-War sentiments during the Vietnam War
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slow harmonic movement of minimalism
neo-tonality (with the new consonance of major 2nds)
Clusters
strong emotional symbolism
Before the 1970s he composed dissonant and serial music
In the 1970s he began writing in a more consonant and ‘simple’ (minimalistic) style -
Gershwin said he wrote it to be an American folk opera
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Born in Estonia, a former republic of the Soviet Union (USSR)
Composed in a variety of styles
When he returned to his compositions in 1976, he started a new style -
Programmatic orchestral piece by Prokofiev
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One of the pioneers of Minimalism.
He is one of the most famous composers alive
http://philipglass.com/
worked with Nadia Boulanger in Paris
10 operas, lots of instrumental and vocal music, and soundtracks for films including, The Illusionist, The Secret Garden, The Truman Show, and Candyman -
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Corigliano became famous with the American public with his film score, The Red Violin (1997)
He has also written orchestral music, concertos, wind ensemble music, stage works, and vocal music -
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use of natural sounds, and manipulate them to make music
French concept -
art song from a song cycle, echoes Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire"
text by Langston Hughes
chromatic harmony
blues influence
through-composed -
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Ballet for Martha Graham who also danced the lead
Ballet by Graham -
American composer, theorist, professor at Princeton, and critic
A pioneer in digital sound synthesis
wrote a computer opera -
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American composer who successfully combined elements of New Romanticism and minimalism into a Post-minimalist style
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or aleatoric
elements of the performance were up to chance -
also used the element of chance, but its aleatory could also be seen on the composition process, along with the performance
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Computers used in music
Electronic music predated this trend
Tape music
Theremin
ondes Martenot -
Developed in Cologne, Germany, in the early 1950s
A new studio was built exclusively for the creation of electronic music -
electronically produced sounds
Experiments began in 1951 at Columbia University
musique concrete elements -
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three movements
composed by john cage
can be performed by any instrumentalist in any formation -
One of the most creative minds in the world of music technology today
Explores interactions between performers and computers -
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contained electronic sounds and concrete sounds recorded onto multi-channel tape
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American composer
Cold Mountain (2016), her 1st opera, was nominated for two Grammy Awards -
Based on poems by Federico Garcia Lorca
composed by Crumb -
An important modern opera that uses minimalism, among other things
Very little singing, almost no plot
The opera is built around a series of recurring images: A train, a trial, a spaceship, and a field
The four acts of the opera are performed without intermission and are connected by a series of “Knee Plays” -
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had a significant influence on the film music industry
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Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Enables computer interactions with synthesizers and sequences -
Orchestral work, transcribed for band
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Minimalist Opera
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A style of music based on repetitive melodic, rhythmic, or harmonic patterns with few or slowly changing variations
Composers:
La Monte Young
Steve Reich
Philip Glass
John Adams
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Higdon’s blue cathedral is an orchestral tone poem written to commemorate the anniversary of the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia
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The opera is about the creation of the atomic bomb by a team of scientists
by Adam