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Neoclassicism (music)

Index Neoclassicism (music)

Neoclassicism in music was a twentieth-century trend, particularly current in the interwar period, in which composers sought to return to aesthetic precepts associated with the broadly defined concept of "classicism", namely order, balance, clarity, economy, and emotional restraint. [1]

139 relations: Aaron Copland, Absolute music, Alban Berg, Albert Roussel, Alberto Ginastera, Alex Ross (music critic), Alexandre Tansman, Alfredo Casella, Ancient Airs and Dances, Anton Webern, Antonio Vivaldi, Apollo (ballet), Armando José Fernandes, Arnold Schoenberg, Arnold Whittall, Arthur Berger (composer), Arthur Honegger, Astor Piazzolla, Bachianas Brasileiras, Baroque music, Béla Bartók, Bohuslav Martinů, Camargo Guarnieri, Carlos Chávez, Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Charles Rosen, Classical period (music), Classicism, Claudio Monteverdi, Concerto grosso, Concerto in D (Stravinsky), Concerto in E-flat "Dumbarton Oaks", Counterpoint, Dag Wirén, Dance suite from keyboard pieces by François Couperin, Darius Milhaud, David Diamond (composer), Divertimento for chamber orchestra after keyboard pieces by Couperin, Domenico Scarlatti, Don Quixote, Edvard Grieg, El retablo de maese Pedro, Elliott Carter, Erik Satie, Ernst Krenek, Fernando Remacha, Ferruccio Busoni, Francis Chagrin, Francis Poulenc, Franz Liszt, ..., Gabriel Pierné, Generation of '27, George Enescu, Gerard Béhague, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Giorgio Pacchioni, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Goffredo Petrassi, Grażyna Bacewicz, Harald Genzmer, Harold Shapero, Harpsichord Concerto (Falla), Heitor Villa-Lobos, Henry Cowell, Holberg Suite, Iša Krejčí, Igor Markevitch, Igor Stravinsky, Interwar period, Irving Fine, Jacobo Ficher, Jean Françaix, Jesús Bal y Gay, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Tyrrell (musicologist), José Ardévol, Juan José Castro, Julián Bautista, Knudåge Riisager, Le bourgeois gentilhomme (Strauss), Lennox Berkeley, List of Cambridge Companions to Music, Luis Gianneo, Lukas Foss, Manuel de Falla, Marcel Mihalovici, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mathis der Maler (opera), Maurice Ravel, Max Reger, Michael Tippett, Miguel de Cervantes, Motif (music), Nadia Boulanger, Ned Rorem, Neoromanticism (music), Neotonality, New Objectivity, Octet (Stravinsky), Oedipus rex (opera), Orpheus (ballet), Ottorino Respighi, Paul Bekker, Paul Hindemith, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Gabaye, Program music, Pulcinella (ballet), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Radamés Gnattali, Ricercar, Richard Strauss, Roberto Gerhard, Roman Vlad, Romantic music, Roy Harris, Salvador Bacarisse, Salvador Contreras, Sergei Prokofiev, Stanley Sadie, Stefan Kisielewski, Symphony in C (Stravinsky), Symphony in Three Movements, Symphony No. 1 (Prokofiev), Symphony of Psalms, The Birds (Respighi), The Musical Offering, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Queen of Spades (opera), The Rake's Progress, Three Pieces for Orchestra (Berg), Vagn Holmboe, Villancico, Virgil Thomson, W. H. Auden, Walter Piston, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wozzeck, Zoltán Kodály. Expand index (89 more) »

Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music.

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Absolute music

Absolute music (sometimes abstract music) is music that is not explicitly "about" anything; in contrast to program music, it is non-representational.

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Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School.

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Albert Roussel

Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer.

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Alberto Ginastera

Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (April 11, 1916June 25, 1983) was an Argentine composer of classical music.

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Alex Ross (music critic)

Alex Ross (born 1968) is an American music critic.

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Alexandre Tansman

Alexandre Tansman (12 June 1897 – 15 November 1986) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of Jewish origin.

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Alfredo Casella

Alfredo Casella (25 July 18835 March 1947) was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.

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Ancient Airs and Dances

Ancient Airs and Dances (Antiche arie e danze) is a set of three orchestral suites by Italian composer Ottorino Respighi, freely transcribed from original pieces for lute.

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Anton Webern

Anton Friedrich Wilhelm (von) Webern (3 December 188315 September 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor.

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Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian Baroque musical composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric.

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Apollo (ballet)

Apollo (originally Apollon musagète and variously known as Apollo musagetes, Apolo Musageta, and Apollo, Leader of the Muses) is a neoclassical ballet in two tableaux composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky.

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Armando José Fernandes

Armando José Fernandes (Lisbon, 26 July 1906 - Lisbon, 3 May 1983) was a neoclassical Portuguese composer; with Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos, Fernando Lopes-Graça, and Pedro do Prado, one of the "group of four" who dominated mid-20th-century Portuguese music.

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Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter.

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Arnold Whittall

Arnold Whittall (born 1935, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England) is a British musicologist and writer.

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Arthur Berger (composer)

Arthur Victor Berger (May 15, 1912 – October 7, 2003) was an American composer and music critic who has been described as a New Mannerist.

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Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger (10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris.

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Astor Piazzolla

Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (March 11, 1921July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger.

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Bachianas Brasileiras

The Bachianas Brasileiras are a series of nine suites by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written for various combinations of instruments and voices between 1930 and 1945.

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Baroque music

Baroque music is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.

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Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and an ethnomusicologist.

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Bohuslav Martinů

Bohuslav Jan Martinů (December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer of modern classical music.

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Camargo Guarnieri

Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (February 1, 1907 – January 13, 1993) was a Brazilian composer.

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Carlos Chávez

Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (13 June 1899 – 2 August 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra.

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Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard University was established in 1925 as an annual lectureship in "poetry in the broadest sense" and named for the university's former professor of fine arts.

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Charles Rosen

Charles Welles Rosen (May 5, 1927December 9, 2012) was an American pianist and writer on music.

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Classical period (music)

The Classical period was an era of classical music between roughly 1730 to 1820, associated with the style of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

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Classicism

Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate.

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Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (15 May 1567 (baptized) – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player and choirmaster.

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Concerto grosso

The concerto grosso (Italian for big concert(o), plural concerti grossi) is a form of baroque music in which the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists (the concertino) and full orchestra (the ripieno or concerto grosso).

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Concerto in D (Stravinsky)

Igor Stravinsky's Concerto in D ("Basle") for string orchestra was composed in Hollywood between the beginning of 1946 and 8 August of the same year in response to a 1946 commission from Paul Sacher to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Basler Kammerorchester (BKO—in English, Basel Chamber Orchestra), and for this reason is sometimes referred to as the "Basle" Concerto ("Basle" being the French form of the city's name).

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Concerto in E-flat "Dumbarton Oaks"

Concerto in E-flat, inscribed Dumbarton Oaks, 8.v.38 (1937–38) is a chamber concerto by Igor Stravinsky, named for the Dumbarton Oaks estate of Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss in Washington, DC, who commissioned it for their thirtieth wedding anniversary.

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Counterpoint

In music, counterpoint is the relationship between voices that are harmonically interdependent (polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour.

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Dag Wirén

Dag Ivar Wirén (15 October 1905 – 19 April 1986) was a Swedish composer.

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Dance suite from keyboard pieces by François Couperin

The orchestral Dance suite from keyboard pieces by François Couperin, TrV 245 was composed by Richard Strauss in 1923 and consists of eight movements, each one based on a selection of pieces from Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin written for the solo harpsichord over the period 1713 to 1730.

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Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud (4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher.

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David Diamond (composer)

David Leo Diamond (July 9, 1915 – June 13, 2005) was an American composer of classical music.

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Divertimento for chamber orchestra after keyboard pieces by Couperin

The Divertimento for chamber orchestra after keyboard pieces by Couperin, Op. 86 (German: Divertimento aus Klavierstücken von François Couperin für kleines Orchester) is an orchestral suite composed by Richard Strauss published in 1942 which consists of eight movements, each one based on a selection of pieces from Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin written for the solo harpsichord over the period 1713 to 1730.

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Domenico Scarlatti

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (Naples, 26 October 1685 Madrid, 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families.

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Don Quixote

The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), or just Don Quixote (Oxford English Dictionary, ""), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.

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Edvard Grieg

Edvard Hagerup Grieg (15 June 18434 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist.

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El retablo de maese Pedro

(Master Peter's Puppet Show) is a puppet-opera in one act with a prologue and epilogue, composed by Manuel de Falla to a Spanish libretto based on an episode from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.

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Elliott Carter

Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American composer who was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

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Erik Satie

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist.

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Ernst Krenek

Ernst Krenek (August 23, 1900December 22, 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer of Czech origin.

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Fernando Remacha

Fernando Remacha Villar (15 December 1898 – 21 February 1984) was a Spanish composer, part of the Group of Eight which formed a sub-set of the Generation of '27.

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Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) (given names: Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher.

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Francis Chagrin

Francis Chagrin (born Alexander Paucker, 15 November 1905 – 10 November 1972), was a composer of film scores and popular orchestral music, as well as a conductor.

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Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist.

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Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc;Liszt's Hungarian passport spelt his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simply "c" in all words except surnames; this has led to Liszt's given name being rendered in modern Hungarian usage as "Ferenc". From 1859 to 1867 he was officially Franz Ritter von Liszt; he was created a Ritter (knight) by Emperor Francis Joseph I in 1859, but never used this title of nobility in public. The title was necessary to marry the Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein without her losing her privileges, but after the marriage fell through, Liszt transferred the title to his uncle Eduard in 1867. Eduard's son was Franz von Liszt. 22 October 181131 July 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary during the Romantic era.

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Gabriel Pierné

Henri Constant Gabriel Pierné (16 August 186317 July 1937) was a French composer, conductor, and organist.

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Generation of '27

The Generation of '27 (Generación del 27) was an influential group of poets that arose in Spanish literary circles between 1923 and 1927, essentially out of a shared desire to experience and work with avant-garde forms of art and poetry.

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George Enescu

George Enescu (19 August 1881 – 4 May 1955), known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher.

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Gerard Béhague

Gerard Henri Béhague (November 2, 1937 – June 13, 2005) was an eminent Franco-American ethnomusicologist and professor of Latin American music.

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Gian Francesco Malipiero

Gian Francesco Malipiero (18 March 1882 – 1 August 1973) was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.

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Giorgio Pacchioni

Giorgio Pacchioni (born July 16, 1947) is an Italian performer, professor, and composer.

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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Giovanni Battista Draghi (4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736), often referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, was an Italian composer, violinist and organist.

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Goffredo Petrassi

Goffredo Petrassi (16 July 1904 – 3 March 2003) was an Italian composer of modern classical music, conductor, and teacher.

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Grażyna Bacewicz

Grażyna Bacewicz (5 February 1909 – 17 January 1969) was a Polish composer and violinist.

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Harald Genzmer

Harald Genzmer (9 February 1909 – 16 December 2007) was a German composer of classical music and an academic.

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Harold Shapero

Harold Samuel Shapero (April 29, 1920 – May 17, 2013) was an American composer.

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Harpsichord Concerto (Falla)

Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Cello is a chamber concerto written for harpsichord and chamber ensemble by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla in 1923–26.

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Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music".

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Henry Cowell

Henry Dixon Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario.

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Holberg Suite

The Holberg Suite, Op. 40, more properly "From Holberg's Time" (Norwegian: Fra Holbergs tid, German), subtitled "Suite in olden style" (Suite i gammel stil, German), is a suite of five movements based on eighteenth century dance forms, written by Edvard Grieg in 1884 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Dano-Norwegian humanist playwright Ludvig Holberg.

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Iša Krejčí

Iša František Krejčí (10 July 1904 – 6 March 1968) was a Czech neoclassicist composer, conductor and dramaturge.

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Igor Markevitch

Igor Borisovitch Markevitch (Игорь Борисович Маркевич, Igor Borisovich Markevich, Ігор Борисович Маркевич, Ihor Borysovych Markevych; July 27, 1912 – March 7, 1983) was a Russian composer and conductor who studied and worked in Paris, was naturalized Italian in 1947 and French in 1982.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.

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Interwar period

In the context of the history of the 20th century, the interwar period was the period between the end of the First World War in November 1918 and the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939.

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Irving Fine

Irving Gifford Fine (December 3, 1914 – August 23, 1962) was an American composer.

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Jacobo Ficher

Jacobo Ficher (Яков (Хакобо) Фишер; 15 January 1896 – 9 September 1978) was an Argentine composer, violinist, conductor, and music educator of Russian birth.

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Jean Françaix

Jean René Désiré Françaix (23 May 1912 in Le Mans – 25 September 1997 in Paris) was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style.

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Jesús Bal y Gay

Jesús Bal y Gay (23 June 1905, Lugo – 3 March 1993, Torrelaguna, Madrid) was a Spanish composer, music critic, and musicologist.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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John Tyrrell (musicologist)

John Tyrrell (born 1942) is a British musicologist.

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José Ardévol

José Ardévol (13 March 1911, in Barcelona – 7 January 1981, in Havana) was a Cuban composer and conductor of Spanish derivation.

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Juan José Castro

Juan José Castro (March 7, 1895September 3, 1968) was an Argentine composer and conductor.

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Julián Bautista

Julián Bautista (21 April 1901 – 8 July 1961) was a Spanish composer and conductor.

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Knudåge Riisager

Knudåge Riisager (6 March 1897 in Kunda, Estonia – 26 December 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Danish composer.

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Le bourgeois gentilhomme (Strauss)

Le bourgeois gentilhomme (also widely know in its German form as Der Bürger als Edelman), Op.

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Lennox Berkeley

Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer.

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List of Cambridge Companions to Music

The Cambridge Companions to Music form a book series published by Cambridge University Press.

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Luis Gianneo

Luis Gianneo (1897–1968) was an Argentine composer, pianist and conductor.

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Lukas Foss

Lukas Foss (August 15, 1922 – February 1, 2009) was a German-American composer, pianist, and conductor.

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Manuel de Falla

Manuel de Falla y Matheu (23 November 187614 November 1946) was a Spanish composer.

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Marcel Mihalovici

Marcel Mihalovici (Bucharest, 22 October 1898 – Paris, 12 August 1985) was a French composer born in Romania.

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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (3 April 1895 – 16 March 1968) was an Italian composer, pianist and writer.

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Mathis der Maler (opera)

Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) is an opera by Paul Hindemith.

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Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.

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Max Reger

Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916), commonly known as Max Reger, was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher.

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Michael Tippett

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War.

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Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 (assumed)23 April 1616 NS) was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.

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Motif (music)

In music, a motif (also motive) is a short musical idea, a salient recurring figure, musical fragment or succession of notes that has some special importance in or is characteristic of a composition: "The motive is the smallest structural unit possessing thematic identity".

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Nadia Boulanger

Juliette Nadia Boulanger (16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher.

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Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem (born October 23, 1923) is an American composer and diarist.

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Neoromanticism (music)

Neoromanticism in music is a return (at any of several points in the nineteenth or twentieth centuries) to the emotional expression associated with nineteenth-century Romanticism.

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Neotonality

Neotonality (or Neocentricity) is an inclusive term referring to musical compositions of the twentieth century in which the tonality of the common-practice period (i.e. functional harmony and tonic-dominant relationships) is replaced by one or several nontraditional tonal conceptions, such as tonal assertion or contrapuntal motion around a central chord.

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New Objectivity

The New Objectivity (in Neue Sachlichkeit) was a movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against expressionism.

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Octet (Stravinsky)

The Octet for wind instruments is a chamber-music composition by Igor Stravinsky, completed in 1923.

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Oedipus rex (opera)

Oedipus rex is an "Opera-oratorio after Sophocles" by Igor Stravinsky, scored for orchestra, speaker, soloists, and male chorus.

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Orpheus (ballet)

Orpheus is a thirty-minute neoclassical ballet in three tableaux composed by Igor Stravinsky in collaboration with choreographer George Balanchine in Hollywood, California in 1947.

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Ottorino Respighi

Ottorino Respighi (9 July 187918 April 1936) was an Italian violinist, composer and musicologist, best known for his three orchestral tone poems Fountains of Rome (1916), Pines of Rome (1924), and Roman Festivals (1928).

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Paul Bekker

Paul Bekker (September 11, 1882 in Berlin – March 7, 1937 in New York) was one of the most articulate and influential German music critics of the 20th century.

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Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor.

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño, usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca (17 January 160025 May 1681), was a dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age.

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Pierre Gabaye

Pierre Gabaye (1930-2000) was a French composer.

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Program music

Program music or programme music is a type of art music that attempts to musically render an extra-musical narrative.

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Pulcinella (ballet)

Pulcinella is a one-act neoclassical ballet by Igor Stravinsky based on an 18th-century play Quartre Polichinelles semblables ("Four identical Pulcinellas").

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English.

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Radamés Gnattali

Radamés Gnattali (27 January 1906 – 3 February 1988) was a Brazilian composer of both classical and popular music, as well as a conductor, orchestrator, and arranger.

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Ricercar

A ricercar (also spelled ricercare, recercar, recercare) is a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition.

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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.

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Roberto Gerhard

Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder (25 September 1896 – 5 January 1970) was a Spanish Catalan composer and musical scholar and writer, generally known outside Catalonia as Roberto Gerhard.

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Roman Vlad

Roman Vlad (29 December 1919 – 21 September 2013) was a Romanian-born Italian composer, pianist, and musicologist of Romanian birth.

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Romantic music

Romantic music is a period of Western classical music that began in the late 18th or early 19th century.

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Roy Harris

Roy Ellsworth Harris (February 12, 1898 – October 1, 1979) was an American composer.

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Salvador Bacarisse

Salvador Bacarisse Chinoria (12 September 18985 August 1963) was a Spanish composer.

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Salvador Contreras

Salvador Contreras Sánchez (10 November 1910 – 7 November 1982) was a Mexican composer and violinist, a member of the Grupo de los cuatro.

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Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (r; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor.

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Stanley Sadie

Stanley John Sadie, CBE (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.

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Stefan Kisielewski

Stefan Kisielewski (March 7, 1911 in Warsaw – September 27, 1991 in Warsaw, Poland), nicknames Kisiel, Julia Hołyńska, Teodor Klon, Tomasz Staliński, was a Polish writer, publicist, composer and politician, and one of the members of Znak, one of the founders of the Unia Polityki Realnej, the Polish libertarian and conservative political party.

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Symphony in C (Stravinsky)

The Symphony in C is a work by Russian expatriate composer Igor Stravinsky.

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Symphony in Three Movements

The Symphony in Three Movements is a work by Russian expatriate composer Igor Stravinsky.

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Symphony No. 1 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev began work on his Symphony No.

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Symphony of Psalms

The Symphony of Psalms is a three-movement choral symphony composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1930 during his neoclassical period.

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The Birds (Respighi)

The Birds (Gli uccelli) is a suite for small orchestra by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi.

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The Musical Offering

The Musical Offering (German title: Musikalisches Opfer or Das Musikalische Opfer), BWV 1079, is a collection of keyboard canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great (Frederick II of Prussia), to whom they are dedicated.

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.

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The Queen of Spades (opera)

The Queen of Spades, Op.

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The Rake's Progress

The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky.

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Three Pieces for Orchestra (Berg)

Alban Berg composed his Three Pieces for Orchestra (German – Drei Orchesterstücke), Op.

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Vagn Holmboe

Vagn Gylding Holmboe (20 December 1909 in Horsens, Jutland – 1 September 1996 in Ramløse) was a Danish composer and teacher who wrote largely in a neo-classical style.

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Villancico

The villancico (vilancete in Portuguese) was a common poetic and musical form of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America popular from the late 15th to 18th centuries.

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Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic.

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W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet.

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Walter Piston

Walter Hamor Piston Jr, (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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Wozzeck

Wozzeck is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg.

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Zoltán Kodály

Zoltán Kodály (Kodály Zoltán,; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassicism_(music)

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