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

concepts with modernist approaches to harmony and melodic and formal techniques

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

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

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

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

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

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

Creator of twelve-tone system of atonal music.

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

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

earliest polyphonic music parallel to the chant.

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

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

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

Louis Armstrong style also known as big-band jazz.

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

musical drama with song poetry, acting, and dancing

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

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

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

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

A style of visual art and literature in Germany and Australia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Large jazz ensemble popular is 1930s and 40s

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

compositional procedure based on 12 chromatic pitches

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

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

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

Complex jazz style

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

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