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Not entirely tonal, but not entirely atonal
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John Williams is widely regarded as one of the best and most influential American composers. If you hear a movie score and you think "wow, that's really good," John Williams probably composed it.
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Composed by George Gershwin (1898-1937)
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Philip Glass is considered to be a minimalist composer
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Composed by Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967)
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Popular in France
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Musique Concrete is a specific style of electronic music. Electronic music has developed and changed in many ways since its original creation as technology has advanced.
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Tape music is integral in musique concrete
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Andrew Lloyd Webber is a composer of musicals that have been extremely successful both on Broadway and the West End, including the ever popular "Phantom of the Opera."
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John Cage is credited with pioneering this style
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"roll of the dice" music
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Composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), an aleatoric composer
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Composed by John Cage (1912-1992)
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Composed by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
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Composed by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
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Formed in reaction to modernism
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Philip Glass and John Adams are widely known composers of this style
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A return to some of the forms of Romanticism
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A response to minimalism; parallels post-minimalism in many ways
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Written by Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)