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Atonality composers

Schoenberg, Berg, Webern

Serialism

rule of how to create atonal piece

Wozzeck

Opera by Berg, only song with vocal

nationalism Hungary composer

Bartok

Klangfarbenmelodie

tone, color, melody

Ethnomusicology

study of music from different cultures

Copland

American composer, patriotic music

Copland pieces

fanfare for common man, hoe down from rodeo, Appalachian spring

Gershwin

American composer, jazzy and big band style

Gershwin pieces

Rhapsody in blue, An American in Paris

Ives

American composor, avante garde style

England Nationalist composer

Elgar

Elgar piece

Pomp and Circumstance-the graduation song

Rachmaninoff

Russia

Shostakovich and Prokofiev

both subjected to the soviet regime

rachmaninoff piece

Rhapsody on a theme of paganini

Prokofiev piece

Romeo and Juliet

Neoclassim

hybrid between past and present

Neoclassicism composers

Prokofiev and Stravinsky

Experimentalism

playing with non musical instruments or playing an instrument in a non conventional way

Experimentalism composers

cage and cowell

Experimentalism pieces

Solo for prepared piano and the banshee

Musique concrete

acoustic recording that is manipulated electronically

muisique concrete piece

Poeme Electronique

Electronic music composers

Varase and Babbitt

Synthesizer

purely electronic

Total serialsim

only piece with harpsichord

Chance music composer

Cage

Minimalism

small number of notes repeated over and over

minimalism composers

glass and reich

Phase shifting

combo of minimalism and musique concrete

disenfranchised composers

William Grant Still and Florence price