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Music History 3 - Test 2
Composers/People, nationality, importance and dates
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Music
Undergraduate 2
04/06/2008

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Arnold Schoenberg (Dates also)
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1874-1951, Austrian, associated with the expressionism, atonal and 12-tone music
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Alban Berg (dates also)
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1885-1935, Austrian, Member of the Second Viennese School with Schoenberg and Webern, combined Mahlerian romanticism with 12-tone
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Anton Webern (dates also)
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1883-1945, Austrian composer and conductor, member of Second Vinnese School, student of Schoenberg, became one of the best-known proponents of the twelve-tone technique
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Igor Stravinsky (dates also)
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1882-1971, Russian, Considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music, often conducted his own works
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Bela Bartok (Dates also)
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1881-1945, Hungarian, one of the founders fo ethnomusicology, composed a shit ton of atonal and ridic music.
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Charles Ives (Dates also)
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1875-1954, American, Widely regarded as one of the first American classical composers. workd with experimental music including polyotnality, tone clusters and quarter tones.
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Paul Hindemith (Dates also)
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1895-1963, German, wrote the hardest freaking music ever known by anyone.
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Sergei Diaghilev
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Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of Ballets russes.
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Robert Craft
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American conductor and writer. Very good friends with Stravisnky, recorded a lot of his music.
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Zoltan Kodaly
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Hungarian composer, worked in depth with ethnomusicology, developed the hand symbols.
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Benny Goodman
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American jazz musician, clarinetist and band leader, known as "King of Swing." Also a maaaad dick.
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George Gershwin
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American composer, wrote for broadway, popular songs, and classical songs as well.
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Jerome Kern
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American composer of popular music like Showboat songs.
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Irving Berlin
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Russian born, American living songwriter, wrote both msuci and lyrics.
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Cole Porter
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American composer, Kiss Me Kate, Anything Goes, lots of famous American songs
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Bessie Smith
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American blues singer, most popular of the 1920s and 30s, paralleled with Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong
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Americna jazz trumpeter and singer. You know this.
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duke ellington
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American composer, pianist and bandleader. Regarded as one of the most influentel figures in jazz.
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Count Basie
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American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader and composer.
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Paul Whiteman
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American orchestral leader, also led a jazz-influenced dance band.
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Tommy Dorsey
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American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, and bandleader of the Big Band era.
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Glenn Miller
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American jazz musician and band leader in the swing era. One of the best selling recording artists, leading one of the best known big bands.
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Max Steiner
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Austrian-American composer of music for the trand film like Gone with the wind.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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Czech film scorer
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Arthur Honegger
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Swiss composer, born in france, known for Pacific 231, imitating the sound of a train.
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Darius Milhaud
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French, part of Les Six, influenced by jazz and polytonality
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Darius Milhaud
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French, part of Les Six, influenced by jazz and polytonality
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Francis Poulenc
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Part of Les Six, wrote all different genres of music.
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Germaine Tailleferre
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Only female member of Les Six
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Jean Cocteau
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Did EVERYTHING. Seriously. He was a BOXING MANAGER AND A POET
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Kurt Weill
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German composer who wrote many works for the stage.
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Carl Orff
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German composer who wrote carmina burana. And that's about it. Oh and his music ed stuff.
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