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Leader of English music, collector and editor of folk songs
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Virtuoso Russian pianist and composer who lived in Beverly Hills
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English, influenced by folk songs and Hindu mysticisms
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American composer
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Spanish composer of the 20th century
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Canadian pianist, helped found the national association of negro musicians
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Italian futuristic painter, composer and builder of musical instruments
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First black female composer to ja a symphony performance
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Taught composers in the 20th century
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Musical genre derived from African American performance traditions that used "blues notes" or bent pitches
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Precursor to jazz, developed from African-American piano style with syncopated rhythms.
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Russian composer and piano
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Influential American composer, pianist, and conductor. Worked in Hollywood, successfully fused jazz and pop music.
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American jazz composer, band-leader, an pianist. Unique big-band jazz, one of the first African American composers to cross races with his music.
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African American jazz musician who revolutionized jazz. Singer, band leader, and trumpet player
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Composer, teacher, critic, conductor, and sponsor of concerts. (First to have multi-faceted career) Mostly tonal music, studied with Nadia Boulanger. Traits: vigorous, mixed meters, open intervals, solos, clean/transparent, folk songs.
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Use of tone clusters
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American composer and philosopher, most innovative composer of the 20th century. Changed definition of music, used indeterminacy, he was the center of avant-garde music in the mid-20th century.
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Creed/manifesto made of essays depicting the history and future of sound according to Russolo.
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American musical style influenced from West African music.
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American conductor, composer, teacher, author, pianist. Influential American composer of the 20th century, brought classical music to the public via various media.
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Famous French composers/musicians/performers; Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Tailleferre, Auric, Poulenc.
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Cultural capital of African American arts (literature, painting, and music). Included William Grant Still and Langston Hughes.
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Highly improvisational style of New Orleans jazz to the "big band" era.
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Style of composition that focused on musical elements other than pitch. Percussion ensembles were given a new status in concert music.
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Written by Gershwin, intended to be American folk opera. First opera with an all black cast.
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New "cool" jazz with fast tempos, dissonant solos.
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French concept, relied on natural sourced sounds and altered by different means.
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Blend of musical styles from blues and honky-tonk to create a new genre.
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"Chance music" was a new concept of composition that left one or more musical elements in performance up to chance
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Musical theater, Romeo and Juliet saga
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American composer, conductor, and lecturer. Known for virtual choir project, large online, musical performances, and neo-tonal style.