Mr. Dr. Chris

Edgard Varise (1883-1965)

Henry Cowell (1897-1965)

George Gershwin (1897-1938)

William Grant Still (1895-1978)

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Ruth Seeger (1901-1953)

Ultra Modernist - experimental, new musical resources

Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)

Hyperprism

Americanist - folk elements, national style, incorporated in European genres.

Americanist

French-born

sound masses colliding or changing

Klangfarbenmelodie

making melody out of non-melodic material

Ionization - when composers use scientific words relating to music

California-born

new piano techniques

tone clusters

The Banshee (0,1,4)

Serial techniques

All notes equally important

music math

First woman to receive Guggenheim Fellowship (Music)

Married teacher - Charles Seeger

Dean of AA composers

1st to conduct major sym orch (LA Philharmonic)

Afro-American Symphony

Classical Forms with folk idioms

Classical Forms with folk idioms

call and response

syncopation

jazz harmonies