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John Cage
Composer, pianist, and avant-garde musician, John Cage was a member of that rare breed of artists who
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Silence
Mauricio Kagel
Maurico Kagel was a German-Argentine composer, filmmaker, visual artist, and playwright of Argentine
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Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis was a highly original Greek composer, known for using mathematic principles in his com
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Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay is known for his work in a wide range of disciplines, including performance, visual
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
If you got tongue from David Bowie, it might change your life. It certainly brought one Japanese pop
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influentia
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Luciano Berio
20th-century Italian composer Luciano Berio embraced many forms of music, from twelve-tone modernism,
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Sir Michael Tippett
Michael Tippett was never satisfied with one kind of musical form. Operas, symphonies, concertos, son
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Carl Orff
Carl Orff was an extremely private person, insisting that his work is the only important thing. When
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Born in a small farm town in Germany in 1928, progressive composer Karlheinz Stockhausen found his gr
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Toru Takemitsu
During the climactic battle scene in Kurosawa's "Ran," the camera gazes on soldiers pierced with arro
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Kaija Saariaho
There are very few composers that are lucky enough to have their work described using the adjectives
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John Zorn
According to Gene Santoro, John Zorn's "idiosyncratic mixtures of musical genres reflect the way popu
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aaron harris
writer, director, musician, artist.
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Philip Glass
One of the first composers to meld the sounds of the Western and Eastern classical music traditions,
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Clean
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Electronic
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Minimalist music
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New musical hybrids
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Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Schaeffer was a French composer and a pioneer of electronic music. While working at the French
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Industrial
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Technology
Ludwig van Beethoven
Musicologists usually break up the great Ludwig van Beethoven's career into three periods: early, mid
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Romantic music
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Erik Satie
Some artists march to the beat of a different drummer, but Erik Satie wrote the melody to accompany t
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Ambient
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Fantastic
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Kaleidoscopic
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Parody
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Spiritual
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Shostakovich is often, in musical circles, called the greatest composer of the twentieth century. Yet
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20th-century music
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Catastrophe
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Lyrical
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Melancholy
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Moody
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Pathos
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Steve Reich
His name is an inevitable entry in the roll call of American Minimalist composers. Steve Reich, along
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Hypnotic
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Minimalist music
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Rhythmic
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Spiritual
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Tribal
Steina Vasulka
Steina Vasulka is a violinist and video artist. Originally from Iceland, she moved to the United Stat
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Abstract
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Distorted
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Electronic
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Experimental
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Lush
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Organic
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Pioneering
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Surface
Arvo Part
The music of Estonian-born German composer Arvo Part is often labeled with the rather meaningless ter
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20th-century music
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Citational
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Collage
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Dissonant
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Minimal
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Minimalist music
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Religious
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Silence
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. He entered the Paris Conservatoi
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Rhythmic
Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach achieved a religious, mathematical, and musical ideal: he combined extreme complexity with impec
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Baroque music
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Ebullient
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Layered
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Mathematical
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Organic
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Religious
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Repetitive
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Serial
George Gershwin
Although he died at an early age, Gershwin created a body of work that was not merely extensive, but
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20th-century music
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Charming
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Epic
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Overflowing
Tony Conrad
Tony Conrad (born Anthony S. Conrad in 1940 in Concord, New Hampshire) is an American avant-garde vid
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Avant-garde film
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Minimalist music
Daniel Barenboim
As both a conductor and a virtuoso pianist, Daniel Barenboim approaches each of his projects from a d
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20th-century music
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Eclectic
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Elegant
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Pathos
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Sophisticated
Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman was a colleague of John Cage and part of the New York School of avant garde composers
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Epic
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Improvised
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Repetition
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Rhythmic
Alexina Louie
Alexina Louie is a Juno-Award winning composer and has been commissioned to write major works for mos
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Atmospheric
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Beautiful
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Ethereal
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Feminine
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Intimate
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Psychological
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
By all accounts, Peter Tchaikovsky was an emotionally troubled man. He suffered from nervous depressi
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Dark
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Dramatic
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Elegant
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Grand
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Romantic music
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Voluminous
Robert Ashley
Composer Robert Ashley is best known for his experimental operas, particularly his pioneering opera s
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20th-century music
Claude Debussy
Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the
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Impressionistic music
György Ligeti
György Ligeti was a 20th-century Hungarian composer, most well-known for his works used in the films
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Abstract
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Architectural
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Atmospheric
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Beautiful
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Enigmatic
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Pioneering
Laurie Thompson
...Hi! My name is Laurie,I'm an artist. My medium of choice is Pen and Ink. All of my drawings were a
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Abstract
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Classic hollywood
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Dark
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Moody
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Self-reflection
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Smart
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Surreal
Erykah Badu
Erykah Badu, is a multiple Grammy-winner American soul singer and songwriter, whose work encompasses
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Lyrical
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