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Bandmaster known for many different popular marches, conductor for The President's Own Marine Band
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One of the greatest American composers of the 20th century. Used styles such as harmonizing in different keys, played familiar tunes and rhythms in 2 meters or 2 keys at once, and used instruments with quarter tones.
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Pianist who helped found the National Association of Negro Musicians (1919)
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French American composer, important in the electronic music field.
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Price was the first black female composer of a major American symphony, began composing around 1910
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Prokofiev was a Russian composer, his most popular work was Peter and the Wolf in 1936. He used elements such as comedy, classicism and rhythmic drive.
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First Black American to conduct and compose a piece for a major symphony. He blended blues and spirituals with traditional European styles.
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Invented chance music as well as new techniques for piano. Used the term tone clusters, which means a group of highly dissonant notes.
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American composer who wrote classical music infused with jazz.
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Major band leader in the swing era and the big band era, composed many different tunes.
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American composer and conductor. His style was mainly tonal but included mixed meters, a lot of solos and transparent textures. Copland studied with Nadia Boulanger in his twenties.
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French composer and teacher known for incorporating bird songs into his music.
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Used many modern compositional techniques, had many ideas which contributed to him defining music as organized sound.
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One of the most popular female jazz singers, performed with white bands, was known for her renditions of blues songs
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Jazz is an American music style that originated from popular African traditions.
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American composer and music theorist who wrote a popular article titled "The Composer as Specialist"
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American conductor, composer and pianist who wrote the popular musical West Side Story, which is so popular due to his complex music.
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Hungarian composer whose style included clusters of sounds and electronic music
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The most important composer and conductor of the French avant-garde
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Most popular Italian composer of the 20th century
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Was highly successful, his style included neo-tonality, clusters and emotional symbolism.
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Was written by Gershwin to be an American folk opera, was the first opera with an all black cast.
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A pioneer of Minimalism, is one of the most famous composers alive.
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Composer who is famous for his film score of The Red Violin (1997)
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One of Copland's biggest orchestral suites, was created for Martha Graham who danced lead in the ballet.
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American composer and theorist, a pioneer in digital sound synthesis.
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American composer who combined New Romanticism and minimalism to create a Post-minimalist style.
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Created in Germany, Karlheinz Stockhausen was a central innovater, led to our modern synthesizer
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American composer who wrote a popular piece named Blue Cathedral in 2000.
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