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1872-1958; English composer; wrote operas, ballets, chamber music, and orchestral works
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1873-1943;
Russian pianist-composer;
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1874-1934; English composer; most reputable piece is orchestral suite The Planets
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1874-1951;German modernist composer; started using atonality
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1874-1954; American modernist composer
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1875-1937; Impressionist; pianist-composer
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1876-1946; Spanish composer; exposed public to Spanish folk tradition
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1882-1971; Russian pianist-composer
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1883-1945; studied under Schoenberg
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1900-1990; American composer
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1906-1975; Russian composer; premiered his first symphony at the age of 19
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Music with more than one tonal center, simultaneously. Used a lot by Charles Ives
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Movement from 1910s-1950s. Composers revived practices from eras that were pre-Romantic.
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Style that strived to free music from tonality; No chord progression rules; started in Germany and Austria
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Group of six French composers that wanted to free French music from foreign domination. Consisted of Arthur Honneger (1892-1955), Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Germaine Taillferre (1892-1983), Georges Aurie (1899-1893), and Louis Durey (1888-1979)
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devised by Arnold Schoenberg, a way to use the twelve different tones together without establishing a tonic. Enabled atonal pieces to be more coherent.
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1930-2000
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Used by composers to create a style unique, distinctive, and individual; Harmonies do not always resolve; orchestration changes; the strictness behind tonality and rhythm is completely disregarded.
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A term used to describe mainly modernist composers, or composers who would depart from traditional music practices.
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Music where concrete sounds were used rather than music notation
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Technology was developing and many musicians started exploring combining this with music.
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Advances in computing enabled composers to explore experimenting with music in digital settings and technology.
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