Avant Garde
was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, and publisher. He was known for writing music using techniques other than those that were traditional for an instrument such as prepared piano.
Henry Cowell
was a movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against expressionism. Rather than some goal of philosophical objectivity, it was meant to imply a turn towards practical engagement with the world—an all-business attitude, understood by Germans as intrinsically American
New Objectivity
He is an American composer and conductor of classical music and opera, with strong roots in minimalism. Among over 60 major compositions is his breakthrough piece Short Ride in a Fast Machine.
John Adams
is an American composer, conductor, and speaker known for his choral, orchestral, and wind ensemble music. His works are mainly for choir and is responsiple for introducing a new sound of cluster chords to the choral world. His most famous work is Lux Aroumque
Eric Whitacre
He was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor. In the 1920s, he became a major advocate of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) style of music. His most popular work, both on record and in the concert hall, is likely the Symphonic Metamorphosis.
Paul Hindemith
was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his serial and electronic music. He is known for bringing electronic instruments and techniques into the culture of classical music.
Milton Babbitt
a style of gentle, largely electronic instrumental music with no persistent beat, used to create or enhance a mood or atmosphere.
Ambient Music
He is an American composer known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. His work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns
Steve Reich
He is an American composer of contemporary classical music, with an emphasis on music for wind band, as well as orchestra. He is mostly noted for his non-use of a publisher and distributes everything on his own.
John Mackey
He was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and Brazilian music and make extensive use of polytonality. He is considered one of the key Modern Contemporary Composers.
Darius Milhaud
He is an American composer of modern classical and avant-garde music. He is known as an explorer of unusual timbres, alternative forms of notation, and extended instrumental and vocal techniques, which obtain vivid sonorities. He is known for his piece Makrokosmos for prepared piano.
George Crumb
an avant-garde movement in music characterized by the repetition of very short phrases which change gradually, producing a hypnotic effect.
Minimalism
He is an English musician, record producer, visual artist, and theorist best known for his pioneering work in ambient music and contributions to rock, pop and electronica. A self-described "non-musician", He has helped introduce unique conceptual approaches and recording techniques to contemporary music. He has been described as one of popular music's most influential and innovative figures.
Brian Eno
He was an American composer, conductor, pianist, music educator, author, and lifelong humanitarian. He was one of the most significant American cultural personalities of the 20th century. His most famous work is West Side Story, a Broadway play from the 60’s.
Leonard Bernstein
was an Austrian composer and conductor. Along with his mentor Arnold Schoenberg, was in the core of those in the circle of the Second Viennese School. His music was among the most radical of its milieu, both in its concision and in its rigorous and resolute apprehension of twelve-tone technique.
Anton Webern
He is an American composer and percussionist. He has been a professor of percussion and music theory at the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho since 1978. His most famous work is Symphony No 1, In memoriam, Dresden, 1945.
Daniel Bukvich
new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them.
Avant Garde
is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. His work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers.
Philip Glass
He is an American composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and concert bandworks. A number of his works are particularly notable, as they have become standards in concert band repertoire. One of his most famous work is Amazing Grace.
Frank Ticheli
A Spanish composer who influenced classical music into the Catalonian style. He was another pupil of Arnold Schoenburg. He also collected, edited and performed folksongs and old Spanish music from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century.
Roberto Gerhard
was an American composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments. He was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century.
John Cage
is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Elements of it include indeterminate music, in which the composer introduces the elements of chance or unpredictability with regard to either the composition or its performance. Artists may also approach a hybrid of disparate styles or incorporate unorthodox and unique elements
Experimental Music
He was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition Sinfonia and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled Sequenza) and also for his pioneering work in electronic music. His early work was influenced by Igor Stravinsky and experiments with serial and electronic techniques, while his later works explore indeterminacy and the use of spoken texts as the basic material for composition.
Luciano Berio
West Side Story is about a boy and a girl from rival gangs in New York City. What are the names of the boy and girl?
Maria and Tony
He was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator. One of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century. His most famous work is Adagio for Strings
Samuel Barber