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George Crumb

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George Crumb (born October 24, 1929) is an American composer of avant-garde music. [1]

64 relations: A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979, Ancient Voices of Children, Ann Crumb, Anton Webern, Arizona State University, Avant-garde, Béla Bartók, Berlin, Black Angels (Crumb), Bridge Records, Charleston, West Virginia, Christopher Rouse (composer), Claude Debussy, Composer, Cynthia Cozette Lee, David Burge, David Crumb, Doctor of Musical Arts, Echoes of Time and the River, Edition Peters, Extended technique, Federico García Lorca, Fulbright Program, Gerald Levinson, Grammy Award, Jan DeGaetani, Jennifer Higdon, John Tyrrell (musicologist), Kronos Quartet, Lu Yen, Madrigal, Makrokosmos, Margaret Brouwer, Master of Music, Michael Kennedy (music critic), Mikrokosmos (Bartók), Music, Music school, Musical ensemble, Musical notation, Neoclassicism (music), Nonesuch Records, Ofer Ben-Amots, Osvaldo Golijov, Percussion instrument, Pulitzer Prize for Music, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Sheet music, Sonata for Solo Cello (Crumb), Song cycle, ..., Stanley Sadie, Star-Child, String piano, String quartet, Timbre, Toy piano, University of Charleston, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, Uri Caine, Virginia, Vox Balaenae. Expand index (14 more) »

A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979

A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979 is a composition for piano, written by American composer George Crumb, written in 1980.

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Ancient Voices of Children

Ancient Voices of Children is a composition by the American composer George Crumb.

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Ann Crumb

Ann Crumb is an American actress and singer.

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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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Arizona State University

Arizona State University (commonly referred to as ASU or Arizona State) is a public metropolitan research university on five campuses across the Phoenix metropolitan area, and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Béla Bartók

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

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Black Angels (Crumb)

Black Angels (Edition Peters, New York, no. 66304, copyright 1971), subtitled "Thirteen Images from the Dark Land", is a work for "electric string quartet" by the American avant-garde composer George Crumb.

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Bridge Records

Bridge Records is an independent record label that specializes in classical music.

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Charleston, West Virginia

Charleston is the most populous city in, and the capital of, the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Christopher Rouse (composer)

Christopher Rouse (born February 15, 1949) is an American composer.

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Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Cynthia Cozette Lee

Cynthia Cozette Lee, also known as Cynthia Cozette or Nazik Cynthia Cozette (born October 19, 1953, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a contemporary African-American classical music composer and librettist.

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David Burge

David Burge (March 25, 1930 – April 1, 2013) was an American pianist, conductor and composer.

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David Crumb

David Crumb (born May 21, 1962Presser) is a contemporary composer born into a musical family.

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Doctor of Musical Arts

The Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) is a doctoral academic degree in music.

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Echoes of Time and the River

Echoes of Time and the River (Echoes II) is an orchestral suite by the American composer George Crumb.

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Edition Peters

Edition Peters is a classical music publisher founded in Leipzig, Germany in 1800.

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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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Federico García Lorca

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known as Federico García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.

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Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs whose goal is to improve intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.

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Gerald Levinson

Gerald Levinson (born June 22, 1951 in Westport, Connecticut) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Jan DeGaetani

Jan (Janice) DeGaetani (July 10, 1933 – September 15, 1989) was an American mezzo-soprano known for her performances of contemporary classical vocal compositions.

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Jennifer Higdon

Jennifer Higdon (born December 31, 1962) is an American composer of classical music and composition teacher.

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John Tyrrell (musicologist)

John Tyrrell (born 1942) is a British musicologist.

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Kronos Quartet

The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco.

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Lu Yen

Lu Yen (20 November 1930 – 1 October 2008) was a Chinese-born Taiwanese composer.

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Madrigal

A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras.

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Makrokosmos

Makrokosmos is a series of four volumes of pieces for piano by American composer George Crumb.

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Margaret Brouwer

Margaret Brouwer b. Ann Arbor, Michigan, is an American composer and composition teacher.

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Master of Music

The Master of Music (M.M. or M.Mus.) is, as an academic title, the first graduate degree in Music awarded by universities and conservatories.

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Michael Kennedy (music critic)

George Michael Sinclair Kennedy CBE (19 February 1926 – 31 December 2014) was an English biographer, journalist and writer on classical music.

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Mikrokosmos (Bartók)

Béla Bartók's Microcosm (in Hungarian, Mikrokozmosz; in German, Mikrokosmos) Sz.

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Music

Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.

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Music school

A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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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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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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Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records is an American record company and label owned by Warner Music Group, distributed by Warner Bros. Records, and based in New York City.

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Ofer Ben-Amots

Ofer Ben-Amots (Hebrew: עופר בן-אמוץ; born October 20, 1955) is an Israeli-American composer and teacher of music composition and theory at Colorado College.

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Osvaldo Golijov

Osvaldo Noé Golijov (born December 5, 1960) is an Argentine composer of classical music and music professor, known for his vocal and orchestral work.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Pulitzer Prize for Music

The Pulitzer Prize for Music is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon

Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon (born 1962, in Guadalajara, México) is a Mexican-American composer and chair of the composition department at Eastman School of Music.

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Sheet music

Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of music notation that uses modern musical symbols to indicate the pitches (melodies), rhythms or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece.

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Sonata for Solo Cello (Crumb)

The Sonata for Solo Cello was written by the American avant-garde composer George Crumb in 1955.

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Song cycle

A song cycle (Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group, or cycle, of individually complete songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a unit.

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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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Star-Child

Star-Child is a piece written in 1977 for orchestra and voices by the American composer George Crumb.

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String piano

String piano is a term coined by American composer-theorist Henry Cowell (1897–1965) to collectively describe those pianistic extended techniques in which sound is produced by direct manipulation of the strings, instead of or in addition to striking the piano's keys.

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String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – two violin players, a viola player and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group.

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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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Toy piano

The toy piano, also known as the kinderklavier (child's keyboard), is a small piano-like musical instrument.

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University of Charleston

The University of Charleston (UC), formerly Morris Harvey College, is a private accredited university based in Charleston, West Virginia, United States.

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University of Colorado Boulder

The University of Colorado Boulder (commonly referred to as CU or Colorado) is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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Uri Caine

Uri Caine (born June 8, 1956, Philadelphia, United States) is an American classical and jazz pianist and composer.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Vox Balaenae

Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale), is a work for electric flute, cello and amplified piano by the American avant-garde composer George Crumb.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crumb

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