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Primarily an atonal composer, but started out tonal
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Inventor of the Kodaly method, Kodaly was a Hungarian composer who specialized in ethnomusicology and linguistics, and was a pedagoge
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Malipiero was an Italian composer and musicologist who also taught and edited music
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A neoclassic composer who used complex rhythms and dissonance
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French composer who called his music "organized sound", in which rhythm was particularly important
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Brazilian composer and conductor who played the cello, piano and guitar, and was incredibly important to 20th century Brazilian art song composition
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Toch was an Austrian composer who wrote classical music and composed for films
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Parisian composer, a part of Les Six, who help inspire their first album, wrote war resistance songs
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Swiss composer who drew inspiration from his Christianity
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A Russian composer who played the piano
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Swiss Les Six composer who appreciated the architecture of music
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Les Six composer, rejected impressionism, and became close friends with Tailleferre
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A French Les Six composer who was friends with Coco Chanel and had stage fright
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German composer and violinist/violist who conducted and was an advocate for the Neue Sachlichkeit style
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First African American composer to have his opera performed in the New York City Opera
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American composer, conductor, and teacher of music who studied at Harvard at age 14
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American composer and critic who helped develop the "American Sound"
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American composer and pianist that spanned many genres, including classical and popular
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Les Six composer who studied with Satie's teachers and ran SACEM
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Les Six composer, self taught, rejected Schoenberg's style, his partner sang many of his songs
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American composer and conductor who lead a jazz group
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American composer, teacher, and conductor who was referred to as the "Dean of American Composers"
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American trumpeter, vocalist, composer and actor who was incredibly influential in Jazz
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Russian composer/pianist who had a unique harmonic language and historic importance
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Composer from America who wrote orchestral and choral pieces, operas, ballets, and piano music
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American composer who won the Pulitzer prize, was also an arts administrator
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Italian-American composer/librettist who won two Pulitzer prizes
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American composer and theorist who pioneered electroacoustic music and indeterminacy in music, and atypical use of instruments, specialized in post war avant-garde
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Melodic Freedom
Polychords and Tone Clusters
Dissonant Chords
12 Tone Clusters
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Maximalism
Minimalism
Impressionism
Expressionism
Jazz
Serialism
Electronic
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