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Aldo Rafael Forte
Aldo Rafael Forte (b. Havana, Cuba, 1953) is an American composer of Cuban descent.
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Alfred Reed
Alfred Reed (January 25, 1921, New York – September 17, 2005, Miami, Florida) was an American, neo-classical composer, with more than two hundred published works for concert band, orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensemble to his name.
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Analog synthesizer
An analog (or analogue) synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog signals to generate sound electronically.
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André Laporte
André Laporte (born 12 July 1931) is a Belgian composer.
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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 Braga
Antonio Braga (22 January 1929 – 26 May 2009 in Naples) was an Italian classical composer.
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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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Ars Musica
Founded in 1989, Ars Musica is an annual contemporary music international festival that takes place in Brussels during several weeks, usually in March.
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Art music
Art music (alternately called classical music, cultivated music, serious music, and canonic music) is music that implies advanced structural and theoretical considerationsJacques Siron, "Musique Savante (Serious music)", Dictionnaire des mots de la musique (Paris: Outre Mesure): 242.
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Art rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.
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Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and religious music.
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Atonality
Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.
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Aulis Sallinen
Aulis Sallinen (born 9 April 1935) is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer.
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Azio Corghi
Azio Corghi (born 9 March 1937 in Cirié, Piedmont) is an Italian opera composer, also a teacher and musicologist.
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Bang on a Can
Bang on a Can is a multi-faceted contemporary classical music organization based in New York City.
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Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.
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Bern Herbolsheimer
Bern Herbolsheimer (September 2, 1948 – January 13, 2016) was an American composer.
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Brian Ferneyhough
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (born 16 January 1943) is a British composer, who has resided in California, United States since 1987.
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Brothers Quay
Stephen and Timothy Quay (born June 17, 1947) are American identical twin brothers who are better known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers.
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Bruce Adolphe
Bruce Adolphe (born May 31, 1955) is a U.S. composer and music scholar, the author of several books on music, and pianist.
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Bruno Maderna
Bruno Maderna (21 April 1920 – 13 November 1973) was an Italian conductor and composer.
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Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music is an annual Festival dedicated to contemporary symphonic music by living composers.
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Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten is a short canon in A minor, written in 1977 by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, for string orchestra and bell.
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Carol Sams
Carol Sams (born 1945) is an American composer based in the Seattle area.
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Carter Pann
Carter Pann (born February 21, 1972 in La Grange, Illinois) is an American composer.
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Charles Rochester Young
Charles Rochester Young (1965) is an American composer, music educator, conductor and saxophonist.
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Charles Wuorinen
Charles Peter Wuorinen (born June 9, 1938) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City.
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Cindy McTee
Cindy McTee (born February 20, 1953) is an American composer and educator.
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Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf
Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (born 22 October 1962) is a German composer, editor, and author.
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Computer
A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.
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Concert band
A concert band, also called wind ensemble, symphonic band, wind symphony, wind orchestra, wind band, symphonic winds, symphony band, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, along with the double bass or bass guitar.
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Consonance and dissonance
In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds.
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Dan Welcher
Dan Welcher (born March 2, 1948) is an American composer, conductor, and music educator.
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Dana Wilson
Dana Richard Wilson (born 1946) is an American composer, jazz pianist, and teacher.
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Daniel Bukvich
Daniel Bukvich (born 1954) is an American composer and percussionist.
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Daniel Catán
Daniel Catán (April 3, 1949 – April 9, 2011) was a Mexican composer, writer and professor known particularly for his operas and his contribution of the Spanish language to the international repertory.
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Darmstadt School
Darmstadt School refers to a group of composers who attended the from the early 1950s to the early 1960s in Darmstadt, Germany.
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Daron Hagen
Daron Aric Hagen (born November 4, 1961) is an American composer, conductor, pianist, educator, librettist, and stage director of contemporary classical music and opera.
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David Bedford
David Vickerman Bedford (4 August 1937 – 1 October 2011) was an English composer and musician.
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David Del Tredici
David Del Tredici (born March 16, 1937) is an American composer.
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David Gillingham
David R. Gillingham (born 1947) is a contemporary composer.
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David Maslanka
David Maslanka (August 30, 1943 – August 7, 2017) was an American composer who wrote for a variety of genres, including works for choir, wind ensemble, chamber music, and symphony orchestra.
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David Sawer
David Sawer (born 14 September 1961), is a British composer of opera and choral, orchestral and chamber music.
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David T. Little
David T. Little (born October 25, 1978) is an American composer and drummer known for his orchestral and operatic works, most notably his opera Dog Days which was named a standout opera of recent decades by The New York Times.
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Delian Society
The Delian Society was an international community of composers, performers, academics, independent scholars, recording engineers, music publishers, and amateurs dedicated to revitalizing and promoting tonality in contemporary art music.
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич|Dmitriy Dmitrievich Shostakovich,; 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist.
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Donald Grantham
Donald Grantham (born November 9, 1947) is an American composer and music educator.
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Donald Martino
Donald James Martino (May 16, 1931 – December 8, 2005) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer.
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Donaueschingen Festival
The Donaueschingen Festival (Donaueschinger Musiktage) is a festival for new music that takes place every October in the small town of Donaueschingen in south-western Germany.
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Early music revival
The general discussion of how to perform music from ancient or earlier times did not become an important subject of interest until the 19th century, when Europeans began looking to ancient culture generally, and musicians began to discover the musical riches from earlier centuries.
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Eclecticism
Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories in particular cases.
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Eclecticism in music
In music, eclecticism is the conscious use of styles alien to the composer's own nature, or from a bygone era.
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Edward Gregson
Edward Gregson (born 23 July 1945), is an English composer of instrumental and choral music, particularly for brass and wind bands and ensembles, as well as music for the theatre, film, and television.
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Einojuhani Rautavaara
Einojuhani Rautavaara (9 October 1928 – 27 July 2016) was a Finnish composer of classical music.
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Electroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music around the middle of the 20th century, following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice.
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Elliot Goldenthal
Elliot Goldenthal (born May 2, 1954) is an American composer of film scores and contemporary classical music.
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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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Eric Ewazen
Eric Ewazen (born March 1, 1954, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American composer and teacher.
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Eric Whitacre
Eric Edward Whitacre (born Friday, January2, 1970) is a Grammy-winning American composer, conductor, and speaker, known for his choral, orchestral and wind ensemble music.
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Erkki Salmenhaara
Erkki Olavi Salmenhaara (March 12, 1941 – March 19, 2002) was a Finnish composer and musicologist.
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Experimental music
Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.
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Expressionism
Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Extended technique
In music, extended technique is unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of playing musical instruments employed to obtain unusual sounds or timbres.
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Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick.
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Film score
A film score (also sometimes called background score, background music, film soundtrack, film music, or incidental music) is original music written specifically to accompany a film.
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Fluxus
Fluxus is an international and interdisciplinary group of artists, composers, designers and poets that took shape in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Franco Donatoni
Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer.
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Frank Ticheli
Frank Ticheli (born January 21, 1958) is an American composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and concert band works.
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Gaudeamus Foundation
The Gaudeamus Foundation and Contemporary Music Center organizes and promotes contemporary musical activities and concerts in the Netherlands and abroad.
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Gavin Bryars
Richard Gavin Bryars (born 16 January 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.
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George Benjamin (composer)
Sir George William John Benjamin, CBE (born 31 January 1960) is an English composer of classical music.
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George Enescu Festival
The George Enescu Festival (also known as George Enescu International Festival and Competition), held in honor of the celebrated Romanian composer George Enescu, is the biggest classical music festival and classical international competition held in Romania and one of the biggest in Eastern Europe.
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George Rochberg
George Rochberg (July 5, 1918May 29, 2005) was an American composer of contemporary classical music.
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Gerald Barry (composer)
Gerald Barry (born 28 April 1952) is an Irish composer.
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Grant Colburn
Grant Colburn (born in Wisconsin in 1966) is an American composer, pianist and harpsichordist.
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Gunther Schuller
Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian and jazz musician.
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Guy Woolfenden
Guy Anthony Woolfenden OBE (12 July 1937 – 15 April 2016) was an English composer and conductor.
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György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti (Ligeti György Sándor,; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music.
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Hans Werner Henze
Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer.
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Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle, (born 15 July 1934) is a British composer.
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Harry Halbreich
Harry Halbreich (Berlin, 9 February 1931 – Brussels, 27 June 2016) was a Belgian musicologist.
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Hendrik Bouman
Hendrik "Henk" Bouman (born 29 September 1951, Dordrecht) is a Dutch harpsichordist, fortepianist, conductor and composer of music written in the baroque and classical idioms of the 17th and 18th century.
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Henri Pousseur
Henri Pousseur (23 June 1929 – 6 March 2009) was a Belgian composer, teacher, and music theorist.
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Henrik Otto Donner
Henrik Otto Donner (16 November 1939 – 26 June 2013) was a Finnish composer, musician and all-round music personality.
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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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Henryk Górecki
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (English pronunciation Go-RET-ski; December 6, 1933 – November 12, 2010) was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music.
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Howard Shore
Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer who is notable for his film scores.
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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is a new music festival held in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, founded in 1978.
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Instrumentation (music)
In music, instrumentation is the particular combination of musical instruments employed in a composition, and the properties of those instruments individually.
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Jack Stamp
Jack Stamp (born March 5, 1954 in College Park, Maryland) is a North American Wind Ensemble conductor and composer.
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James Barnes (composer)
James Charles Barnes (born September 9, 1949 in Hobart, Oklahoma, U.S.) is an American composer.
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James Dillon (composer)
James Dillon (born October 29, 1950) is a Scottish composer who is often regarded as belonging to the New Complexity school.
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James Erber
James Erber (born 1951) is a British composer of the New Complexity school.
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James MacMillan
Sir James Loy MacMillan, CBE (born 16 July 1959) is a Scottish classical composer and conductor.
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Jan Van der Roost
Jan Van der Roost (born Duffel, 1956) is a Belgian composer.
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Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic.
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Johan de Meij
Johannes Abraham (Johan) de Meij, born November 23, 1953, in Voorburg, Netherlands, is a Dutch conductor, trombonist, and composer, best known for his Symphony No. 1, nicknamed The Lord of the Rings symphony.
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John Adams (composer)
John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer of classical music and opera, with strong roots in minimalism.
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John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.
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John Corigliano
John Paul Corigliano (born 16 February 1938) is an American composer of classical music.
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John Eaton (composer)
John Charles Eaton (March 30, 1935 – December 2, 2015) was an American composer.
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John Harbison
John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938) is an American composer, known for his symphonies, operas, and large choral works.
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John Mackey (composer)
John Mackey (born October 1, 1973) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, with an emphasis on music for wind band, as well as orchestra.
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John Rutter
John Milford Rutter (born 24 September 1945) is an English composer, conductor, editor, arranger and record producer, mainly of choral music.
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John Tavener
Sir John Kenneth Tavener (28 January 1944 – 12 November 2013) was an English composer, known for his extensive output of religious works, including The Protecting Veil, Song for Athene and The Lamb.
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John Tyrrell (musicologist)
John Tyrrell (born 1942) is a British musicologist.
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Jonathan Harvey (composer)
Jonathan Dean Harvey (3 May 1939 – 4 December 2012) was a British composer.
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Josef Tal
Josef Tal (Hebrew: יוסף טל; September 18, 1910 – August 25, 2008) was an Israeli composer.
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Joseph Schwantner
Joseph Clyde Schwantner (born March 22, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer, educator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2002.
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Juan Carlos Figueiras
Juan Carlos Figueiras (born 1957) is an Argentine composer and pianist.
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Judith Weir
Judith Weir (born 11 May 1954) is a British composer and Master of the Queen's Music.
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Julie Giroux
Julie Ann Giroux (born December 12, 1961 in Fairhaven, Massachusetts) is an American composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and numerous concert band works.
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Kaija Saariaho
Kaija Anneli Saariaho (née Laakkonen, born 14 October 1952) is a Finnish composer based in Paris, France.
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Karel Husa
Karel Husa (August 7, 1921 – December 14, 2016) was a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.
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Karl Jenkins
Sir Karl William Pamp Jenkins, CBE (born 17 February 1944) is a Welsh musician and composer.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Kenneth Hesketh
Kenneth Hesketh (born 20 July, 1968) is a British composer of contemporary classical music in numerous genres including opera, dance, orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo.
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Kevin Puts
Kevin Matthew Puts (born January 3, 1972) is an American composer who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his first opera.
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Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (born 23 November 1933) is a Polish composer and conductor.
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La Chinoise
La Chinoise ("The Chinese") is a 1967 French political film directed by Jean-Luc Godard about young revolutionaries in Paris.
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Lauda (song)
The lauda (Italian pl. laude) or lauda spirituale was the most important form of vernacular sacred song in Italy in the late medieval era and Renaissance.
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Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.
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Lera Auerbach
Lera Auerbach (Лера Авербах, born Valeria Lvovna Averbakh, Валерия Львовна Авербах; 21 October 1973, Chelyabinsk) is a Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist.
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Leslie Bassett
Leslie Raymond Bassett (born Hanford, 22 January 1923 – 4 February 2016) was an American composer of classical music, and the University of Michigan's Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition.
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Liberation theology
Liberation theology is a synthesis of Christian theology and Marxist socio-economic analyses that emphasizes social concern for the poor and the political liberation for oppressed peoples.
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Lior Navok
Lior Navok (born September 6, 1971) (Hebrew: ליאור נבוק) is an Israeli classical composer, conductor and pianist.
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Liza Lim
Liza Lim (born 30 August 1966) is an Australian composer.
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Lorenzo Ferrero
Lorenzo Ferrero (born 1951) is a contemporary Italian composer, librettist, author, and book editor.
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Louis Siciliano
Louis Siciliano ALUEI (born 19 March 1975) is an awards winning music composer (Silver Ribbon 2005, Italy. Best composer of the year at 67 Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2010, Best film-music composer 2016 for Colonne Sonore Magazine, Manuel De Sica award as best composer of 2016), sound healer, poly-instrumentalist, conductor, sound engineer, music producer, poet (poesie muratorie, lieto colle edition), writer (La Lungara: Un fiume di piombo. Graus Editore), philosopher and film producer.
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Luca Francesconi
Luca Francesconi (born 17 March 1956 in Milan) is an Italian composer.
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Luca Lombardi
Luca Lombardi (born 24 December 1945 in Rome) is an Italian composer.
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Lucerne Festival
The Lucerne Festival is a series of classical music festivals based in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer.
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Luigi Nono
Luigi Nono (29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music and remains one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century.
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Magnus Lindberg
Magnus Gustaf Adolf Lindberg (born 27 June 1958) is a Finnish composer and pianist.
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Mario Davidovsky
Mario Davidovsky (born March 4, 1934) is an Argentine-American composer.
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Mark Adamo
Mark Adamo (born 1962) is an American composer, librettist and professor of music composition at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
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Mark Camphouse
Mark Camphouse (born 1954 in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American composer and conductor who has written primarily for symphonic winds, but whose output also includes works for orchestra, choir and chamber brass.
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MATA Festival
The MATA Festival is a New York-based annual contemporary classical music festival devoted to championing the works of young composers.
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Melodic motion
Melodic motion is the quality of movement of a melody, including nearness or farness of successive pitches or notes in a melody.
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Michael Berkeley
Michael Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Baron Berkeley of Knighton, (born 29 May 1948) is an English composer and broadcaster on music.
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Michael Colgrass
Michael Colgrass (born April 22, 1932, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American-born Canadian musician, composer, and educator.
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Michael Daugherty
Michael Kevin Daugherty (born April 28, 1954) is an American composer, pianist, and teacher.
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Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy (born 17 March 1946) is an English composer and pianist.
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Michael Gandolfi
Michael James Gandolfi (born July 5, 1956) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
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Michael John Trotta
Michael John Trotta (born 1978) is an American composer and conductor, and speaker.> He frequently appears as a composer and conductor at Carnegie Hall.
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Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano.
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Michael Obst (composer)
Michael Obst (born 30 November 1955) is a German composer and pianist.
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Michael Talbot (musicologist)
Michael Owen Talbot, (born 4 January 1943 in Luton) is a British musicologist and composer.
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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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Michel van der Aa
Michel van der Aa (born 10 March 1970) is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music.
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Microtonal music
Microtonal music or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".
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Miguel del Águila
Miguel del Águila (born September 15, 1957, Montevideo) is an Uruguayan-born American composer of contemporary classical music.
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Milton Babbitt
Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, and teacher.
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Minimal music
Minimal music is a form of art music that employs limited or minimal musical materials.
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Minimalism
In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Missy Mazzoli
Missy Mazzoli (born October 27, 1980) is an American composer and pianist who is a member of the composition faculty at the Mannes College of Music.
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Mixed media
In visual art, mixed media is an artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed.
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Modernism (music)
In music, modernism is a philosophical and aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in aesthetic worldviews in close relation to the larger identifiable period of modernism in the arts of the time.
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Modulor
The Modulor is an anthropometric scale of proportions devised by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965).
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Mohammed Fairouz
Mohammed Fairouz (born November 1, 1985) is an American composer.
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Morten Lauridsen
Morten Johannes Lauridsen (born February 27, 1943) is an American composer.
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Music Biennale Zagreb
Music Biennale Zagreb (Muzički biennale Zagreb, MBZ) is an international festival of contemporary music in Zagreb, Croatia, organized by the Croatian Composers' Society.
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Musica (French music festival)
Musica is a festival of contemporary classical music held annually in Strasbourg since 1983.
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Musical historicism
Musical historicism signifies the use of historical materials, structures, styles, techniques, media, conceptual content, etc., whether by a single composer or those associated with a particular school, movement, or period.
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Musical notation
Music notation or musical notation is any system used to visually represent aurally perceived music played with instruments or sung by the human voice through the use of written, printed, or otherwise-produced symbols.
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Musical tuning
In music, there are two common meanings for tuning.
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Musique concrète
Musique concrète (meaning "concrete music")" problem for any translator of an academic work in French is that the language is relatively abstract and theoretical compared to English; one might even say that the mode of thinking itself tends to be more schematic, with a readiness to see material for study in terms of highly abstract dualisms and correlations, which on occasion does not sit easily with the perhaps more pragmatic English language.
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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.
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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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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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Nicholas Maw
John Nicholas Maw (5 November 1935 – 19 May 2009) was a British composer.
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Nico Muhly
Nico Muhly (born August 26, 1981) is an American contemporary classical music composer and arranger who has worked and recorded with both classical and pop musicians.
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Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg (born 15 August 1928) is an English film director and former cinematographer.
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Nigel Osborne
Emeritus Professor Nigel Osborne MBE (born 23 June 1948, Manchester, England) is a British composer, teacher and aid worker.
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November Music
November Music is an annual international festival of contemporary music in the Netherlands on various locations in 's-Hertogenbosch.
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Olga Neuwirth
Olga Neuwirth (born 4 August 1968 in Graz) is an Austrian composer.
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Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century.
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Oscar Bianchi
is a Gaudeamus Laureate composer of Italian and Swiss citizenships.
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Oscar Edelstein
Oscar Edelstein (born 12 June 1953) is a contemporary composer from Argentina.
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Other Minds (organization)
Other Minds is a San Francisco based private 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization, founded in 1992 by Charles Amirkhanian (who serves as Executive and Artistic Director) and Jim Newman (President Emeritus).
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.
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Paul Mealor
Paul Mealor OStJ FRSA (born 25 November 1975) is a Welsh composer.
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Paulo Galvão
Paulo Galvão (born 1967 in Portimão, Algarve, Portugal) is a composer, lutenist, theorbist and guitarist.
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Péter Eötvös
Péter Eötvös (Hungarian: Eötvös Péter:; born 2 January 1944) is a Hungarian composer, conductor and teacher.
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Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival
The Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival is held in Plymouth, Devon, England.
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Per Nørgård
Per Nørgård (pronounced; born 13 July 1932) is a Danish composer.
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Performance
Performance is completion of a task with application of knowledge, skills and abilities.
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Performance art
Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary.
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Peter Graham (composer)
Peter Graham (born 1958) is one of the leading composers for brass band.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor.
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Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer.
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Philip Sparke
Philip Allen Sparke (born 29 December 1951) is a British composer and musician born in London, noted for his concert band and brass band music.
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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, writer and founder of institutions.
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Plainsong
Plainsong (also plainchant; cantus planus) is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church.
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Polyrhythm
Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more conflicting rhythms, that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter.
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Postminimalism
Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971Chilvers, Ian and Glaves-Smith, John, A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, second edition (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 569.
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Postmodern music
Postmodern music is either simply music of the postmodern era, or music that follows aesthetical and philosophical trends of postmodernism.
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René Clausen
René Clausen (born 1953) is an American composer, conductor of The Concordia Choir, and professor of music at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.
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Rhys Chatham
Rhys Chatham (born September 19, 1952) is an American composer, guitarist, trumpet player, multi-instrumentalist (flutes in C, alto and bass, keyboard), primarily active in avant-garde and minimalist music.
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Richard Barrett (composer)
Richard Barrett (born 7 November 1959) is a Welsh composer.
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Richard Meale
Richard Graham Meale, AM, MBE (24 August 193223 November 2009) was an Australian composer of instrumental works and operas.
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Richard Rodney Bennett
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (29 March 193624 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist.
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Richard Saucedo
Richard Saucedo is an freelance American composer with many pieces for marching band arrangements, concert band, and orchestral works.
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Ricky Ian Gordon
Ricky Ian Gordon (born May 15, 1956) is an American composer of art song, opera and musical theatre.
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Robert Ashley
Robert Reynolds Ashley (March 28, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was an American composer, who was best known for his operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques.
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Robert Moran
Robert Moran (born January 8, 1937) is an American composer of operas and ballets as well as numerous orchestral, vocal, chamber and dance works.
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Robert W. Smith (musician)
Robert Winston Smith (born October 24, 1958) is an American composer, arranger, and teacher.
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Roberto Carnevale
Roberto Carnevale (born 15 June 1966) is an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.
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Roger Redgate
Roger Redgate is a British musician.
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Roger Sessions
Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music.
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Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk (Ukrainian: Роман Туровський-Савчук) is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer,http://www.concertzender.nl/kairos-een-meditatie-op-hedendaagse-muziek-5/.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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Ron Nelson (composer)
Ron Nelson (born December 14, 1929) is a composer of both classical and popular music and a retired music academic.
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Rudolf Brucci
Rudolf Brucci (Bruči) (March 30, 1917 – October 30, 2002), was a composer of Croatian and Italian origin, born in Zagreb.
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S. P. Somtow
S.
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Samuel Hazo
Samuel Robert Hazo (born 1966) is an American composer of primarily music for concert band.
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Scott Lindroth
Scott Lindroth is an American composer and teacher based near Durham, North Carolina.
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Scott McAllister
Scott McAllister (born 1969) is an American composer and clarinetist.
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Scott Perkins
Scott Perkins (born June 25, 1980) is an international prize-winning composer, a tenor, an award-winning scholar, and a music educator.
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Scottish folk music
Scottish folk music (also Scottish traditional music) is music that uses forms that are identified as part of the Scottish musical tradition.
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Serialism
In music, serialism is a method of composition using series of pitches, rhythms, dynamics, timbres or other musical elements.
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Social realism
Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the everyday conditions of the working class and to voice the authors' critique of the social structures behind these conditions.
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Sound art
Sound art is an artistic discipline in which sound is utilised as a primary medium.
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Spectral music
Spectral music (or spectralism) is a compositional technique developed in the 1970s, using computer analysis of the quality of timbre in acoustic music or artificial timbres derived from synthesis.
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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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Stefano Vagnini
Stefano Vagnini (born 1963) is an Italian musician, composer, poet and Modular Art theorist who lives and brings his music around the world.
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Steve Reich
Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.
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Steven Bryant (composer)
Steven Bryant (born May 28, 1972 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an active American composer and conductor with a varied catalog, including works for orchestra, wind ensemble, electronics, and chamber music.
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Steven Reineke
Steven Reineke (born September 14, 1970) is a conductor, composer, and arranger from Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Steven Stucky
Steven Edward Stucky (November 7, 1949 − February 14, 2016) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer.
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Symphony No. 3 (Górecki)
The Symphony No.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.
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The Shining (film)
The Shining is a 1980 horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson.
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Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès CBE (born 1 March 1971) is a British composer, pianist and conductor.
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Thomas C. Duffy
Thomas C. Duffy, DMA (born June 17, 1955) is Professor (adjunct) of Music and the Director of Bands at Yale University.
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Tim Benjamin
Tim Benjamin (born 1975) is an Anglo-French composer.
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Timbre
In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.
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Twelve-tone technique
Twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition devised by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) and associated with the "Second Viennese School" composers, who were the primary users of the technique in the first decades of its existence.
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Valentyn Sylvestrov
Valentyn Vasylyovych Sylvestrov (Валенти́н Васи́льович Сильве́стров; born 30 September 1937 in Kiev (Kyiv) (Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian composer and pianist of contemporary classical music.
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Veljo Tormis
Veljo Tormis (7 August 1930 – 21 January 2017) was an Estonian composer, regarded as one of the greatest living choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia.
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Vincent Persichetti
Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist.
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Vox Saeculorum
Vox Sæculorum is an international society of contemporary composers writing in the Baroque style established in 2006.
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W. Francis McBeth
William Francis McBeth (March 9, 1933 – January 6, 2012) was an American composer, whose wind band works are highly respected.
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Walkabout (film)
Walkabout is a 1971 British-Australian survival drama film set in the Australian outback, directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, and David Gulpilil.
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Warren Benson
Warren Benson (January 26, 1924 – October 6, 2005) was an American composer.
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Warsaw Autumn
Warsaw Autumn (Warszawska Jesień) is the largest international Polish festival of contemporary music.
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Wolfgang Rihm
Wolfgang Rihm (born 13 March 1952) is a German composer.
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Yasuhide Ito
is a contemporary Japanese composer.
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York Höller
York Höller (born 11 January 1944 in Leverkusen) is a German composer and Professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.
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2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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