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Noted for his stylistic diversity. One of the best known composers. The leading proponent of Primitive in music.

compositional procedure based on 12 chromatic pitches

Dissonances are free from the need to resolve to consonances. Music remain dissonant, It doesn't have to resolve itself.

(HI, N, MA-) Hildegard, Notre Dame composers, Machaut

one movement orchestral, develops a poetic idea, suggests a scene, creates a mood, associated with the romantic era

A style of visual art and literature in Germany and Australia

African American secular folk music. Based on a simple repetitive poetic musical structure.

religious texts are sung to a single line and unaccompanied by any additional voices or instruments. no harmony

Large scale dramatic genre. Baroque. based on religious text. includes a choir, soloist, and orchestra.

contemporary musical style with short melodic, rhythmic and harmonic patterns with little variation.

American pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestras. He led orchestra from 1923 until his death

earliest polyphonic music parallel to the chant.

minimalist, developed phase rhythm counterpoint same rhythm move in and out phases like a canon. Traditional harmonies

"Dean of African American. Darker America" won a publication prize. (couldn't find much on this composer)

The first distinctively American composer. In the insurance business and composed in his spare time.

Complex jazz style

American known for distinctly American sound (jazz, hymns, cowboy songs, folk tunes) clear tonality; Appalachian Spring

Hungarian composer who founded a personal style drawing upon and synthesizing East-European folk music

french monophonic or polyphonic song. Courtly or poetry. French art song

He composed the opera Einstein on the Beach. Art music composer who authenticate the compositional process of Paul Simon

European art music, jazz, blues, popular songwriting, new musical language jazz and classical

musical drama with song poetry, acting, and dancing

Large jazz ensemble popular is 1930s and 40s

large work for orchestra, generally in three or four movements. no solo

Renaissance secular work originating in Italy for voices, with or without instruments, set to a short, lyric love poem

20th century group of composers. Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg. developed twelve-tone music style.

instrumental genre in for solo instrument and orchestra. Work for a solo instrument that is accompanied by an orchestra

Creator of twelve-tone system of atonal music.

Symphony, three, four or five movement. individual movements together tell a tale or depict a succession, specific event

Most commercially successful jazz musician, Merged jazz and rock to create fusion. Born in Mississippi. Dance orchestra

notes of a melody distributed among different instruments giving a pointillist effect

chamber music ensemble made up of 2 violins, viola and cello

(PU, BA, HA, VI,-PUll BAck HArd VIcky)

Russian composer, wrote Rite of Spring, expressionist ballet, shocked crowds because of music and scenes.

(MO,HA,BE-MOst HAve BEen) Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven

(do all the other names first) Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Berlioz, Grieg, Brahms,Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Tchaikovsky

Director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Broadway productions, such as West Side Story.

vocal style which melody is spoken at approximate pitches rather than sung on exact pitches.

Germand for "song"; most commonly associated with the solo art song of the 19th century, usually accompanied by piano

African American musical style. Blended elements from African music with popular art traditions of the west.

Method of composition in which various musical elements (pitch,rhythm,dynamics,timbre) may be ordered in a fixed series

Louis Armstrong style also known as big-band jazz.

Restrained performance with lush harmonies, moderate volume levels and tempos, and a new lyricism. Substyle of bebop.

concepts with modernist approaches to harmony and melodic and formal techniques

New York cultural artistic movement. Focused on rebirth of African American arts.

(J, PA,F-Just PAy Frank) Josquin, Palestrina, Farmer

This composer was famous for writing scores to movies such as star wars, jaws etc.