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333 relations: Aaron Copland, Airat Ichmouratov, Akira Ifukube, Alan Hovhaness, Alan Silvestri, Aldo Rafael Forte, Alex North, Alexandre Desplat, Alfred Reed, Alfred Schnittke, Analog synthesizer, André Laporte, Anton Webern, Antonio Braga, Apostolos Paraskevas, Aram Khachaturian, Arnold Schoenberg, Arnold Whittall, Ars Musica, Art rock, Asko Concerto, Atonality, Aulis Sallinen, Azio Corghi, Bachtrack, Bang on a Can, Barney Childs, Benjamin Britten, Benjamin Frankel, Bern Herbolsheimer, Bernard Herrmann, Big Ears Festival, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Brad Fiedel, Brian Ferneyhough, Brian Tyler, Brothers Quay, Bruce Adolphe, Bruce Broughton, Bruno Maderna, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Caio Facó, Carol Sams, Carter Pann, Charles Rochester Young, Charles Wuorinen, Cindy McTee, Classical music, Claude Vivier, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, ... Expand index (283 more) »
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist and later a conductor of his own and other American music.
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Airat Ichmouratov
Airat Rafailovich Ichmouratov (Айрат Рафаилович Ишмуратов, Tatar Cyrillic: Айрат Рафаил улы Ишмурат) born 28 June 1973, is a Volga Tatar born Russian / Canadian composer, conductor and klezmer clarinetist.
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Akira Ifukube
was a Japanese composer.
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Alan Hovhaness
Alan Hovhaness (March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American composer of Armenian ancestry.
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Alan Silvestri
Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer and conductor of film and television scores.
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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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Alex North
Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He received fifteen Academy Award nominations for his work as a composer; while he did not win for any of his nominations, he received an Honorary Academy Award in 1986, the first for a composer.
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Alexandre Desplat
Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer and conductor.
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Alfred Reed
Alfred Friedman (better known as Alfred Reed) (January 25, 1921 – September 17, 2005) was an American neoclassical composer, with more than two hundred published works for concert band, orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensemble to his name.
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Alfred Schnittke
Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Russian composer.
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Analog synthesizer
An analog synthesizer (analogue synthesiser) 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 Webern (3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist.
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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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Apostolos Paraskevas
Apostolos Paraskevas is a Grammy nominated composer and guitarist.
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Aram Khachaturian
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (Ru-Aram Ilyich Khachaturian.ogg; Արամ Խաչատրյան,; 1 May 1978) was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer.
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Arnold Whittall
Arnold Whittall (born 1935) is a British musicologist and academic.
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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 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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Asko Concerto
The Asko Concerto is a concerto for chamber orchestra by the American composer Elliott Carter.
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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 Heikki Sallinen (born 9 April 1935) is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer.
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Azio Corghi
Azio Corghi (9 March 1937 – 17 November 2022) was an Italian composer, academic teacher and musicologist.
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Bachtrack
Bachtrack is a London-based international online music magazine which publishes listings of classical music, opera, ballet and dance, as well as reviews of these genres, interviews and general feature articles.
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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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Barney Childs
Barney Sanford Childs (February 13, 1926 – January 11, 2000) was an American composer and teacher.
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Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist.
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Benjamin Frankel
Benjamin Frankel (31 January 1906 – 12 February 1973) was a British composer.
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Bern Herbolsheimer
Bern Herbolsheimer (September 2, 1948 – January 13, 2016) was an American composer.
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Bernard Herrmann
Bernard Herrmann (born Maximillian Herman; June 29, 1911December 24, 1975) was an American composer and conductor best known for his work in composing for films.
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Big Ears Festival
The Big Ears Festival is an annual music festival in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Boston Conservatory at Berklee (formerly The Boston Conservatory) is a private performing arts conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Brad Fiedel
Bradley Ira Fiedel (born August 10, 1951) is an American composer.
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Brian Ferneyhough
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (born 16 January 1943) is an English composer.
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Brian Tyler
Brian Theodore Tyler (born May 8, 1972) is an American composer, conductor and arranger, best known for his film, television, and video game scores.
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Brothers Quay
Stephen and Timothy Quay (born June 17, 1947) are American identical twin brothers and stop-motion animators 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 composer, music scholar, the author of several books on music, and pianist.
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Bruce Broughton
Bruce Harold Broughton (born March 8, 1945) is an American orchestral composer of television, film, and video game scores and concert works.
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Bruno Maderna
Bruno Maderna (born Bruno Grossato, 21 April 1920 – 13 November 1973) was an Italian composer, conductor and academic teacher.
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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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Caio Facó
Caio Facó (born May 16, 1992) is a Brazilian composer.
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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 (June 9, 1938 – March 11, 2020) was an 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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Classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
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Claude Vivier
Claude Vivier (baptised as Claude Roger; 14 April 19487 March 1983) was a Canadian composer, pianist, poet and ethnomusicologist of Québécois origin.
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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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Compases para preguntas ensimismadas
Compases para preguntas ensimismadas is a musical composition for viola, strings, wind sextet and percussion by the German composer Hans Werner Henze.
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Composition for Twelve Instruments
Composition for Twelve Instruments (1948, rev. 1954) is a serial music composition written by American composer Milton Babbitt for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, harp, celesta, violin, viola, cello, and double bass.
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Computer
A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation).
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Concert band
A concert band, also called a wind band, wind ensemble, wind symphony, wind orchestra, symphonic band, the symphonic winds, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, and occasionally including the harp, double bass, or bass guitar.
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Concerto (Barraqué)
The Concerto for six instrumental formations and two solo instruments (vibraphone and clarinet) is a work composed by Jean Barraqué, started in 1962 and finished in 1968.
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Concerto for seven wind instruments, timpani, percussion, and string orchestra
Concerto for seven wind instruments, timpani, percussion, and string orchestra (published as Concerto pour sept instruments à vent, timbales, batterie et orchestre à cordes) is a composition by the Swiss composer Frank Martin.
Consonance and dissonance
In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds.
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Dae-Ho Eom
Dae-Ho Eom (born May 22, 1972, in the lunar calendar) is a South Korean musician, philosopher, and composer of contemporary classical music.
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Dan Welcher
Dan Welcher (born March 2, 1948)Joshua Kosman, "Welcher, Dan (Edward)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001)Nicolas Slonimsky, Laura Kuhn, and Dennis McIntire, "Welcher Dan", Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, eighth edition, edited by Nicolas Slonimsky and Laura Kuhn (New York: Schirmer Books, 2001): 6:3891–3892.
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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 Porteny (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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Danny Elfman
Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician.
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Darmstädter Ferienkurse
Darmstädter Ferienkurse ("Darmstadt Summer Course") is a regular summer event of contemporary classical music in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.
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Daron Hagen
Daron Aric Hagen (born November 4, 1961) is an American composer, writer, and filmmaker.
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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 Walter Del Tredici (March 16, 1937 – November 18, 2023) was an American composer.
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David Gillingham
David R. Gillingham (born October 20, 1947) is an American contemporary composer, who is known for his works for concert band and percussion ensemble.
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David Maslanka
David Maslanka (August 30, 1943 – August 7, 2017) was an American composer of Polish descent who wrote for a variety of genres, including works for choir, wind ensemble, chamber music, and symphony orchestra.
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David Newman (composer)
David Louis Newman (born March 11, 1954) is an American composer and conductor known particularly for his film scores.
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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 a Grammy-nominated American composer, record producer, and drummer known for his operatic, orchestral, and chamber works, most notably his operas JFK, Soldier Songs, and 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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Dialogues (Carter)
Dialogues is a composition for solo piano and chamber orchestra by the American composer Elliott Carter.
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Dimitri Tiomkin
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) was a Russian and American film composer and conductor.
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.
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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, or more precisely Donaueschingen Music Days (Donaueschinger Musiktage), is a three-day October event presenting new music in the town of the same name, where the Danube River starts, at the edge of the Black Forest in southern Germany.
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Double Concerto (Carter)
The Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras is a composition by the American composer Elliott Carter.
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Drei Lieder (Stockhausen)
Drei Lieder (Three Songs), for alto voice and chamber orchestra, is a song cycle by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written while he was still a conservatory student in 1950.
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Early music revival
An early music revival is a renewed interest in music from ancient history or prehistory.
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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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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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Electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.
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Elliot Goldenthal
Elliot Goldenthal (born May 2, 1954) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and film and theatrical scores.
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Elliott Carter
Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer.
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Elliott Schwartz
Elliott Shelling Schwartz (January 19, 1936 – December 7, 2016) was an American composer.
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Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor.
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Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone (10 November 19286 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles.
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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 January2, 1970) is a Grammy-winning American composer, conductor, and speaker best known for his choral 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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Ernest Gold
Ernst Sigmund Goldner (July 13, 1921 – March 17, 1999), known professionally as Ernest Gold, was an Austrian-born American composer.
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Experimental music
Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.
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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 mystery psychological drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick.
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Fluxus
Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers, and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product.
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Franco Donatoni
Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer.
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Frank Martin (composer)
Frank Martin (15 September 1890 – 21 November 1974) was a Swiss composer, who spent much of his life in the Netherlands.
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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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Franz Waxman
Franz Waxman (né Wachsmann; December 24, 1906February 24, 1967) was a German-born composer and conductor of Jewish descent, known primarily for his work in the film music genre.
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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 contemporary 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 Perle
George Perle (6 May 1915 – 23 January 2009) was an American composer and music theorist.
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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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Giselher Klebe
Giselher Wolfgang Klebe (28 June 19255 October 2009) was a German composer, and an academic teacher.
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Grant Colburn
Grant Colburn (born in Wisconsin in 1966) is an American composer, pianist and harpsichordist.
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Guitar Concerto No. 2 (Hovhaness)
The Guitar Concerto No.
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Gunther Schuller
Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician.
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Guy Woolfenden
Guy Anthony Woolfenden (12 July 1937 – 15 April 2016) was an English composer and conductor.
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György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti (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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Hans Zimmer
Hans Florian Zimmer (born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer.
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Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Birtwistle (15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022) was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based on mythological subjects.
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Harry Halbreich
Harry Halbreich (Berlin, 9 February 1931 – Brussels, 27 June 2016) was a Belgian musicologist.
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Helmut Lachenmann
Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann (born 27 November 1935) is a German composer of contemporary classical music.
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Hendrik Bouman
Hendrik "Henk" Bouman (born 29 September 1951, in 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 Léon Marie-Thérèse Pousseur (23 June 1929 – 6 March 2009) was a Belgian classical 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, writer, pianist, publisher, teacher Marchioni, Tonimarie (2012).
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Henry Jackman
Henry Pryce Jackman (born 1 June 1974) is an English composer.
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Hermann Danuser
Hermann Danuser (born 3 October 1946) is a Swiss-German musicologist.
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Howard Blake
Howard David Blake (born 28 October 1938) is an English composer, conductor, and pianist whose career has spanned more than 50 years and produced more than 650 works.
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Howard Shore
Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, conductor and orchestrator noted for his film scores.
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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (also known by the acronym HCMF, stylised since 2006 as the lowercase hcmf//) is a new music festival held annually in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.
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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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Jacob Druckman
Jacob Raphael Druckman (June 26, 1928 – May 24, 1996) was an American composer born in Philadelphia.
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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 29 October 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 Horner
James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American film composer.
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James MacMillan
Sir James Loy MacMillan, TOSD (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 Barraqué
Jean-Henri-Alphonse Barraqué (17 January 1928 – 17 August 1973) was a French composer and music writer.
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Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic.
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Jerry Goldsmith
Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer, with a career in film and television scoring that spanned nearly 50 years and over 200 productions, between 1954 and 2003.
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Jocy de Oliveira
Jocy de Oliveira (born 11 April 1936) is a Brazilian pianist, multimedia artist and composer.
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Joe Hisaishi
, known professionally as, is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981.
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Johan de Meij
Johannes Abraham "Johan" de Meij (born November 23, 1953 in Voorburg) is a Dutch conductor, trombonist, and composer, best known for his Symphony No. 1 for wind ensemble, 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 and conductor whose music is rooted in minimalism.
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John Barry (composer)
John Barry Prendergast (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music.
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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 Jr. (born February 16, 1938) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
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John Debney
John Cardon Debney (born August 18, 1956) is an American composer and conductor of film, television, and video game scores.
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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 and academic.
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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 Powell (film composer)
John Powell is an English composer best known for his film scores.
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John Tyrrell (musicologist)
John Tyrrell (17 August 1942 – 4 October 2018) was a British musicologist.
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John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)Nylund, Rob (November 15, 2022).
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Jonathan Harvey (composer)
Jonathan Dean Harvey (3 May 1939 – 4 December 2012), Faber Music was a British composer.
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Josef Tal
Josef Tal (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, 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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Judith Weir
Dame Judith Weir (born 11 May 1954) is a British composer serving as Master of the King's Music.
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Julie Giroux
Julie Ann Giroux (born December 12, 1961, in Fairhaven, Massachusetts) is an American pianist and composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and numerous concert band works.
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Julius Eastman
Julius Eastman (October 27, 1940 – May 28, 1990) was an American composer, pianist, vocalist, and performance artist.
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Kaija Saariaho
Kaija Anneli Saariaho (14 October 1952 – 2 June 2023) was a Finnish composer based in Paris, France.
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Karel Goeyvaerts
Karel August Goeyvaerts (8 June 1923 – 3 February 1993) was a Belgian composer.
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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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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 dance, orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo.
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Kevin Puts
Kevin Matthew Puts (born January 3, 1972) is an American composer, best known for his opera The Hours and for winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his first opera Silent Night and a Grammy Award in 2023 for his concerto Contact.
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Kol-Od
Kol-Od (also titled Chemins VI) is a composition for solo trumpet and chamber ensemble by Luciano Berio.
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Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor.
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Kyle Gann
Kyle Eugene Gann (born November 21, 1955, in Dallas, Texas) is an American composer, professor of music, critic, analyst, and musicologist who has worked primarily in the New York City area.
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La Chinoise
La Chinoise, ou plutôt à la Chinoise: un film en train de se faire, commonly referred to simply as La Chinoise, is a 1967 French political docufiction film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard about a group of young Maoist activists 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 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.
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Leonard Rosenman
Leonard Rosenman (September 7, 1924 – March 4, 2008) was an American film, television and concert composer with credits in over 130 works, including East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Barry Lyndon, Race with the Devil, and the animated The Lord of the Rings.
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Lera Auerbach
Lera Auerbach (Лера Авербах, born Valeria Lvovna Averbakh, Валерия Львовна Авербах; October 21, 1973) is a Soviet-born Austrian-American classical composer, conductor and concert pianist.
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Leslie Bassett
Leslie Raymond Bassett (22 January 1923 – 4 February 2016) was an American composer of classical music.
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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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List of contemporary classical ensembles
This page lists ensembles that specialise in contemporary classical music.
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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 an Italian composer, librettist, author, and book editor.
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Lori Laitman
Lori Laitman is an American composer who has composed multiple operas, choral works, and over 300 songs.
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Louis Siciliano
Louis Siciliano (born in Naples, Italy - March 19, 1975) is a Jazz and World-Music composer, piano and synth performer, sound engineer and music producer.
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Luca Francesconi
Luca Francesconi (born 17 March 1956) is an Italian composer.
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Luca Lombardi (composer)
Luca Lombardi (born 24 December 1945) is an Italian composer.
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Lucerne Festival
Lucerne Festival is one of the leading international festivals in the world of classical music and presents a series of classical music festivals based in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio (24 October 1925 – 27 May 2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition Sinfonia and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled Sequenza), and for his pioneering work in electronic music.
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Luigi Nono
Luigi Nono (29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music.
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Magnus Lindberg
Magnus Gustaf Adolf Lindberg (born 27 June 1958) is a Finnish composer and pianist.
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Marcus Paus
Marcus Nicolay Paus (born 14 October 1979) is a Norwegian composer and one of the most performed contemporary Scandinavian composers.
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Mario Davidovsky
Mario Davidovsky (March 4, 1934 – August 23, 2019) was an Argentine-American composer.
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Marios Joannou Elia
Marios Joannou Elia (born 19 June 1978), is a Cypriot composer and artistic director.
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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 band, but whose output also includes works for orchestra, choir and chamber brass.
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Masamichi Amano
is a Japanese music composer, arranger and conductor.
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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 Abels
Michael Abels (born October 8, 1962) is an American composer best known for the opera Omar, co-written with Rhiannon Giddens, and his scores for the Jordan Peele films Get Out, Us and Nope.
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Michael Berkeley
Michael Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Baron Berkeley of Knighton, (born 29 May 1948) is an English composer, broadcaster on music and member of the House of Lords.
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Michael Colgrass
Michael Charles Colgrass (April 22, 1932 – July 2, 2019) was an American and Canadian musician, composer, and educator.
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Michael Daugherty
Michael Kevin Daugherty (born April 28, 1954) is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American composer, pianist, and teacher.
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Michael Finnissy
Michael Peter Finnissy (born 17 March 1946) is an English composer, pianist, and pedagogue.
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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 Giacchino
Michael Giacchino (born October 10, 1967) is an American composer of music for film, television, and video games.
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Michael Kamen
Michael Arnold Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, songwriter, record producer and musician.
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Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker.
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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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Microtone (music)
Microtonal 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) is a prolific Uruguay-born American composer of contemporary classical music.
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Miklós Rózsa
Miklós Rózsa (April 18, 1907 – July 27, 1995) was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953 onward.
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Milton Babbitt
Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher.
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Minimal music
Minimal music (also called minimalism)"Minimalism in music has been defined as an aesthetic, a style, and a technique, each of which has been a suitable description of the term at certain points in the development of minimal music.
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Minimalism
In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism was an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, and it is most strongly associated 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 describes artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed.
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Modernism (music)
In music, modernism is an 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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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 in classical music 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
Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music.
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Musical tuning
In music, there are two common meanings for tuning.
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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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New Complexity
New Complexity is a label principally applied to composers seeking a "complex, multi-layered interplay of evolutionary processes occurring simultaneously within every dimension of the musical material".
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New Music Gathering
New Music Gathering (NMG) is a yearly American conference/festival hybrid devoted to the performance, development, and promotion of new and contemporary classical music.
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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 Asher 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 (15 August 1928 – 23 November 2018) was an English film director and cinematographer, best known for directing Performance (1970), Walkabout (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Bad Timing (1980) and The Witches (1990).
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Nigel Osborne
Nigel Osborne (born 23 June 1948) is a British composer, teacher and aid worker.
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Nino Rota
Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota, was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.
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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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Nummer 2
Nummer 2 for thirteen instruments (also called Opus 2 for thirteen instruments) is a composition written in 1951 by the Belgian composer Karel Goeyvaerts.
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Oiseaux exotiques
Oiseaux exotiques (Exotic birds) is a piece for piano and small orchestra by Olivier Messiaen.
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Olga Neuwirth
Olga Neuwirth (born 4 August 1968 in Graz) is an Austrian contemporary classical composer, visual artist and author.
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Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist.
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Oscar Bianchi
Oscar Bianchi (born 1975 in Milan) 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 an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Paul Du Noyer
Paul Du Noyer (born Paul Anthony Du Noyer; 21 May 1954) is an English rock journalist and author.
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Paul Griffiths (writer)
Paul Anthony Griffiths (born 1947) is a British music critic, novelist and librettist.
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Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music.
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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 (Eötvös Péter,; 2 January 194424 March 2024) was a Hungarian composer, conductor and academic teacher.
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Per Nørgård
Per Nørgård (born 13 July 1932) is a Danish composer and music theorist.
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Performance
A performance is an act or process of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment.
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Performance art
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants.
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Perspectives of New Music
Perspectives of New Music (PNM) is a peer-reviewed academic journal specializing in music theory and analysis.
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Peter Graham (composer)
Peter Graham (born 1958) is a prolific British composer 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, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.
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Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist.
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Philip Sparke
Philip Allen Sparke (born 29 December 1951) is an English 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 (26 March 19255 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions.
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Plymouth
Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England.
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Polyrhythm
Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more rhythms that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter.
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Post-tonal music theory
Post-tonal music theory is the set of theories put forward to describe music written outside of, or 'after', the tonal system of the common practice period.
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Ralph Shapey
Ralph Shapey (12 March 1921 – 13 June 2002) was an American composer and conductor.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer.
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Ramifications (Ligeti)
Ramifications is a composition for strings by Hungarian composer György Ligeti.
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Ramin Djawadi
Ramin Djawadi (born 19 July 1974) is a German film score composer, conductor, and record producer.
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Recital I (for Cathy)
Recital I (for Cathy) is a stage work by the Italian composer Luciano Berio.
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Reginald Smith Brindle
Reginald Smith Brindle (5 January 1917 – 9 September 2003) was a British composer and writer.
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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 Edward Wilson
Richard Edward Wilson (born May 15, 1941) is an American composer and pianist.
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Richard Einhorn
Richard Einhorn (born 1952) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
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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 and occasional vocalist.
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Richard Toop
Richard Toop (1 August 1945 – 19 June 2017) was a British-Australian musicologist.
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Richard Wernick
Richard Wernick (born January 16, 1934, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer.
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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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Riopy
Jean-Philippe Rio-Py (born 1983), known professionally as Riopy (styled RIOPY), is a French-British pianist and composer.
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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 television operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques.
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Robert Folk
Robert Elms Folk (born March 5, 1949) is an American film and television composer and conductor who has written over 80 film and television scores, as well as concert works.
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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 William Smith (October 24, 1958 – September 21, 2023) was an American composer, arranger, and teacher.
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Roberto Carnevale
Roberto Carnevale (born 15 June 1966) is an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic teacher.
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Roger Redgate
Roger Redgate (born 1958) is a British composer, conductor and improvisor.
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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,.
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Ron Nelson (composer)
Ronald Jack Nelson (December 14, 1929 – December 24, 2023) was an American composer of classical music and popular music and a music educator.
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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
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Samuel Hazo
Samuel Robert Hazo (born 1966) is an American composer, primarily of music for concert band.
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Scott Lindroth
Scott Allen Lindroth (born 1958) 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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Serialism
In music, serialism is a method of composition using series of pitches, rhythms, dynamics, timbres or other musical elements.
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Shin'ichirō Ikebe
Shin'ichirō Ikebe (晋一郎 Ikebe Shin'ichirō; born September 15, 1943, in Mito, Ibaraki) is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.
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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 real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions.
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Spectral music
Spectral music uses the acoustic properties of sound – or sound spectra – as a basis for composition.
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Stanley Sadie
Stanley John Sadie (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, researcher, poet and Modular Art theorist.
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Steve Jablonsky
Steve Jablonsky (born October 9, 1970) is an American composer for film, television and video games, best known for his musical scores in the Transformers film series and The Sims 3.
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Steve Reich
Stephen Michael Reich (better-known as Steve Reich, born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who is known for his contribution to the development of 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 American composer and conductor.
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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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Stop (Stockhausen)
Stop is a composition for orchestra (divided into six groups) by Karlheinz Stockhausen, work-number 18 in the composer’s catalogue of works, where two performing realisations are also found as Nr.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.
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Tōru Takemitsu
was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory.
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Tempo (journal)
Tempo is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that specialises in music of the 20th century and contemporary music.
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The Musical Quarterly
The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America.
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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 Shining (film)
The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson.
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Thomas Adès
Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès (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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Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, also translated as Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (Tren pamięci ofiar Hiroszimy), is a musical composition for 52 string instruments composed in 1961 by Krzysztof Penderecki.
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Tierkreis (Stockhausen)
Tierkreis (1974–75) is a musical composition by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen.
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Tim Benjamin (composer)
Tim Benjamin (born 1975) is an English 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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Tom Cipullo
Tom Cipullo (born November 22, 1956) is an American composer.
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Twelve-tone technique
The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition first devised by Austrian composer Josef Matthias Hauer, who published his "law of the twelve tones" in 1919.
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University of Plymouth Contemporary Music Festival
The University of Plymouth Contemporary Music Festival is an annual event held in Plymouth, Devon, England at the University of Plymouth.
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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 adventure survival film 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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William Duckworth (composer)
William Duckworth (January 13, 1943 – September 13, 2012) was an American composer, author, educator, and Internet pioneer.
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William Walton
Sir William Turner Walton (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer.
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Wojciech Kilar
Wojciech Kilar (17 July 1932 – 29 December 2013) was a Polish classical and film music composer.
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Wolfgang Rihm
Wolfgang Rihm (13 March 1952 – 27 July 2024) was a German composer of contemporary classical music and an academic teacher based in Karlsruhe.
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Yasuhide Ito
is a contemporary Japanese composer.
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York Höller
York Höller (born 11 January 1944) is a German composer and professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.
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Yoshihisa Hirano
is a Japanese composer and arranger.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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21st-century classical music
21st-century classical music is art music in the contemporary classical tradition that has been produced since the year 2000.
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References
Also known as Contemporary Choral Music, Contemporary art music, Contemporary classical composer, Contemporary serious music, Modern classical.
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