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 List of composers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A strong distinction is made, however, between composers, lyricists, and performers in such genres as classical and jazz music.
In other genres, such as popular and folk music, the term "songwriter" means someone who authors both music and lyrics, and is more common than "composer." If a songwriter also performs, he or she is called a "singer/songwriter."
For composers of classical music and opera see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_composers   (128 words)

  
 Talk:List of composers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If people want to make more style-specific lists, they can do it at baroque music, ragtime music, and so on.
Should the list be divided according to periods (as on the classical music page)?
I wonder whether it's more useful to have the composers listed alphabetically as the periods are quite arbitrary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_composers   (829 words)

  
 List of uncategorized composers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some of them will be added to one of the various genres of music in other pages, and some will remain uncategorized because of the variety of music styles they compose or have composed.
To see the lists of composers classified by genres return to List of composers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_uncategorized_composers   (123 words)

  
 Classical composer biographies
Another composer who was famous as something of a child prodigy, Mendelssohn didn’t manage to achieve the fame of composers such as Mozart or
I find it hard to imagine being able to compose music as wonderful as the Choral symphony whilst being unable to hear the music except in one’s head.
If a composer is not on these pages, there’s a good chance that while I’ve probably heard of them, I haven’t actually heard any of their compositions.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/music/composers.html   (3039 words)

  
 Framespage_Who
She is a member of the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters and writes music which aims to inspire and uplift.
As a composer he is self-taught, and has written mostly small-scale works: piano pieces, organ music, carols, and church music.
A committed and enthusiastic composer writing orchestral, chamber, solo instrumental, vocal, electro-acoustic music and opera, Martin also writes all of the music for and plays the guitar in a heavy rock band called Stealth.
http://www.clanmilan.freeserve.co.uk/composersalliance/frame_who.htm   (3270 words)

  
 International musicians list - classical music composers
Composer of chamber music, vocal music, and jazz.
I love to compose classical music i also play the cello and violin and hold special musical programs for small children i hope to one day become a music teacher or violin maker.
Composer, choir and orchestra conductor, teacher of Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue and Composition in the Conservatory of Music 'S. Pietro a Majella' in Naples.
http://www.musicianspage.com/musicians-list/composers/classical.html   (2350 words)

  
 What the program notes won't tell you.
The music by composers on List A, in general, is more accessible, more conservative, and more broadly popular; most of them have been famously involved with the stage.
The music of List B composers is, on the whole, more complex, more difficult, and embraces atonal dissonance.
And it seems plausible that there is some subconscious connection between this need for acceptance and the List A composers' tendencies to write, to put it broadly, likable music.
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~maxwell/fest/classical.html   (962 words)

  
 Music
Catalogue of Classical Composers This list of composers is from the music department at the University of Oregon.
Paul Geffen's Mostly Classical Music Index composers and recordings of all types of music.
Many links to general music indexes, composers, musical instruments are provided, but the emphasis is on ethnic music.
http://www.vonl.com/humble9/music.htm   (1867 words)

  
 Music-Composers
A list from Cook Music Library with links to sites with information on individual composers as well as links to sites with lists of composers.
Doctoral Dissertations in Music : Listings of doctoral dissertations in musicology.
Limit your search to "Musical Recordings" and then perform a keyword search for that composer's name.
http://library.gmu.edu/resources/fa/composers.htm   (681 words)

  
 Renaissance & Baroque Chronology, Details
Previously he was more active as a composer of sacred music and violin sonatas.
1461: Composed Requiem for the funeral of Charles VII.
1585: Composes music for the performance of Sophocles' Oedipus tyrannus at the theatre of the Accademica Olimpica, Venice.
http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/callon/2233/ch-comp.htm   (8787 words)

  
 Classical & Baroque midi music.
Boyce was a rival to Arne as a composer of theatre music.
A lot of the music Purcell composed for it does not relate to Shakespeare’s text at all.
Some of the music was probably composed by Purcell’s brother Daniel after Henry’s death.
http://www.geocities.com/austy72/midifile.html   (450 words)

  
 International musicians list - jazz music composers
I am a composer & arranger for all types of music in London, specialising in Jazz, musicals and early 20th Century music with interests in classical and romantic music too.
Real Time Jazz is an uptempo contemporary music jazz band with a new debut CD 'Before the Storm' I'm currently seeking to sign with a record label, so please feel free to listen to my track samples on my website.
Available for Composing, Arranging, Orchestrating, Transcribing, and Copywork in all musical styles.
http://www.musicianspage.com/musicians-list/composers/jazz.html   (1071 words)

  
 UVa Music Library: Resources & Finding Aids
Among the features of the site are a biography, a large photo gallery, a discography, a listing of songs by title, and a compilation of tour dates from 1973-1981.
John Cage Online is an annotated list of Web resources, including links to works lists, discographies, interviews, writings, articles, images of Cage's artwork, audio and video clips, photos, and other material (compiled by Josh Ronsen).
Use "Find a Composer" to browse a list of composers; choosing a name links to biography and sometimes pictures and audio samples in MP3 or score samples in PDF.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/MusicLib/resources/composers.html   (1581 words)

  
 The McGraw-Hill Companies College Division - ART GALLERY
Complete listing of composers which include biographies and music samples.
ASCAP is a membership society of over 68,000 active composer, songwriter, lyricist and music publisher members.
This site provides an alphabetical list of links to internet information about female composers of classical music.
http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/music/compose.html   (216 words)

  
 Classical, Rock, Soul, R&B, Pop, Jazz, Funk, Blues and Swing Music Composers Database at Composers.net
Decca Music Group Composers List - Classical Music Composers - Composers from various periods including the 20th and 21st centuries.
Composers - Basics about the major creators of classical (art) music, with terms, historical eras, RAM audio examples, and purchase links.
I Write The Music - A music portal for composers.
http://www.composers.net   (876 words)

  
 Estonian Composers
To explore the choral music of Tormis is to explore the heart and soul of the Estonian culture and singing tradition.
For a list of his works on cd click here.
Based on the ancient runic song idioms, Tormis' music is both accessible and powerful.
http://www.pitts.emory.edu/theoarts/multi/Countries/Estonia/estcomps.html   (511 words)

  
 ModernW o r k s ! - List of Composers
(b.1954), the first avant-garde composer in China, holds degrees in both violin and composition from the Shanghai Conservatory, where he was assistant professor of composition prior to coming to the United States in 1983.
Einaudi has recently created the Einaudi Electric Ensemble, a five-member group with a repertory of his music, in which the composer plays the piano.
His concerns have included expanded notions of instrumental and vocal timbre, increasingly flexible means of rhythmic articulation, and improvisation within controlled limits.
http://www.modernworks.com/repertoire/composers.html   (2945 words)

  
 Open Directory - Games: Video Games: Music: Composers
OMNI Interactive Audio - Composes music and sound effects for such titles as Halo 2 and Guild Wars.
VGMidi - Primarily a site for game music remix musicians, but several original composers have their works listed here as well.
Siebold, Markus - Remembering the past - The composer of the Commodore C64 Turrican II music.
http://dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Music/Composers   (1974 words)

  
 Worldwide Internet Music Resources: Composers
This music resource list is offered as a service of the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University.
Kalvos and Damian's New Music Bazaar -- New Music Composers from Around the World
Leroy Anderson -- American Composer of Light Concert Music
http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/composer.html   (414 words)

  
 PlaybillArts: News: Gershwin Tops List of Richest Composers
Mozart, the Guardian notes, is not on the list; the composer died penniless at age 35.
The list was compiled by the U.K. classical-music station Classic FM based on estimates of each composer’s lifetime earnings.
After Gershwin, who made multiple millions of dollars on his musicals, the highest-earning composers were Johann Strauss II, Verdi, Rossini, Handel, Haydn, Rachmaninoff, Puccini, Paganini, and Tchaikovsky.
http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/2752.html   (269 words)

  
 Find important information on list of composers
Find list of composers and more at Lycos Search.
Long Beach Press-Telegram - Best-selling author T. Jefferson Parker takes readers on a fascinating journey into the mind in his new novel, "The Fallen." In it, San Diego Homicide Detective Robbie Brownlaw suffers a serious injury, after which he begins to see people's emotions...
Variety - The cult documentary "Grey Gardens" is hardly a natural candidate for musicalization.
http://www.dragstripsyndicate.com/find/list-of-composers.aspx   (217 words)

  
 List of Woman Composers
Here's a list of my favorite women composers I made with only my CD collection as reference (in no particular order; all from the U.S. unless indicated otherwise).
Laetitia De Compiegne Sonami - French-born composer of whimsical electronic music, often triggered by the humorously mysterious narratives of Melody Sumner Carnahan (a brilliant novelist popular among new-music composers)
Erin Watson - Young violinist, rock guitarist, and composer of vividly imagistic chamber works, whose magnum opus to date, Ambling Through Montmartre, is a work for orchestra and toy piano
http://www.kylegann.com/women.html   (1245 words)

  
 Malcolm Ball - Harry Partch
One only need listen to Indonesian gamelan to here these microtonal nuances which existed in 1580 and experienced by Sir Francis Drake who logged in his diary that the music of this land 'was of a very strange kind, yet the sound was pleasant and delightful'.
Just West Coast microtonal music for guitar and harp with John Schneider on Bridge label, Newband microtonal works on Mode label, Newband Dance of the Seven Veils and Revelation in the Courthouse Park on Tomato label all on CD and available.
However, you may be lucky enough to pick up 'The Music of Harry Partch' played by the Gate5 Ensemble on Composers Recordings Inc. CRI 193 and 'The World of Harry Partch' on CBS Masterworks MS7207 from some larger second-hand record shops.
http://members.aol.com/malcmuso/partch.htm   (1246 words)

  
 Classical Net - Composer Data
These are all composers from the database I keep for my CD collection.
For more general information on composers, including biographies and recommended recordings, see the Master Composer Index.
This is largely because I don't have a recording of Carmina Burana in my collection.
http://www.classical.net/music/composer   (743 words)

  
 Unknown Composers Page
Jimmosk's list of unfairly unknown composers, with.WAV sound clips.
"Unknown" isn't the best choice of word; obviously some people know about these composers, enough to have produced the records, cds, and radio broadcasts where I heard their music.
Also, if you have a fast connection, you can listen to the Unknown Composers radio program, continuously on the classical section of live365!
http://kith.org/jimmosk/TOC.html   (329 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Gershwin leads composer rich list
Full details of the composers' fortunes will be revealed in Composers' Notes, a new Classic FM series presented by John Suchet beginning on September 4.
The classical music station drew up the rich list based on estimates of earnings accrued in a composer's lifetime.
The music of George Gershwin has delighted millions of people across the world and he made a multi-million pound fortune from it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1558446,00.html   (289 words)

  
 Composers and Composition
Composers at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of Music
Full texts of lots of lieder and songs with indexes by first line of text, title, composer, poet
Lyrics of Italian pop songs: a splendid selection, unfortunately not available for the moment...
http://www.cilea.it/music/muscompo.htm   (442 words)

  
 WWW VL Classical Music: Composers
The Classical Music Navigator; directed primarily toward music educators and student and/or novice listeners to classical music; features a structure facilitating the identification and linking of composers and their works, styles, and influences.
Contemporary Swiss Composers with biographies and descriptions of their music
Kalvos and Damian's New Music Bazaar with many composer interviews
http://www.gprep.org/classical/composers.html   (1028 words)

  
 Classical Composers
This web site provides you almost everything you need concerning classical music- its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits and short sound examples), explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies.
6904 Classical Music files in MIDI Format from 526 Composers.
Watch for the new improved Harmony Music List, including thousands more links, refined
http://academy.d20.co.edu/ees/composers.htm   (171 words)

  
 Music Services: About OR Composers List
The list also includes composers born in Oregon who now live elsewhere, composers who have spent a significant part of their creative lives in Oregon, and composers who received advanced degrees in music composition from postsecondary institutions in Oregon.
Readers who wish to recommend composers for inclusion in this list may contact Terry McQuilkin, project editor for this list, or Leslie Bennett, Head, Music Services.
This is intended to be a directory of all active professional composers in Oregon, past and present.
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/music/ORcomposers/orcomppurpose.html   (91 words)

  
 Classical Composers Database
The Forum is a good place for all your questions related to classical music and classical composers.
Welcome to one of the oldest Internet sites about classical music composers!
Film composer John Williams was elected Composers of the Year 2005 by the International Film Music Critics Association.
http://www.classical-composers.org/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=_phome   (396 words)

  
 Chronological Listing of Music Composers
Early Music Composers - Pre-History to 500 A.D. Composer
Classical Music - 1725 to 1800 A.D. Composer
Renaissance Music - 1400 to 1600 A.D. Composer
http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/appendix/Composers/Composerchron.html   (65 words)

  
 Home Recording dot com BBS - New email discussion list for composers/songwriters/musicians/gear-heads
Basically the list is designed to let composers and musicians connect with each other and talk about gear (including soft-samplers and soft-synths such as Gigasampler/GigaStudio, Reaktor, EXS24, Unity, etc.), music software and hardware, music and composition technique, audio recording and mixing technique, sample libraries, film scoring, orchestration, instruments and instrumentation etc in an email environment.
Feel free to attach MIDI files of your compositions to messages for analysis by other list members or upload MP3's of your music and/or samples/patches and so on (non-commercial of course) as you see fit to the file section.
Home Recording dot com BBS > General Discussions > Songwriting
http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=17381   (166 words)

  
 Latter-day Saint Film Composers / LDS Composers
The best known list of top Latter-day Saint classical composers (regardless of whether they composed for film or not) was produced in 1968 by Lowell Durham.
Latter-day Saint songwriters for films are listed as well.
"God's Army" Soundtrack CD Original score by composer Miriam Cutler (who is Jewish), with songs by various LDS artists.
http://www.ldsfilm.com/lds_composers.html   (1689 words)

  
 Composers
This is a list of composers featured on PandP CDs.
Click on a name to read more about each composer:
http://www.ppmusic.com/music/comp.htm   (20 words)

  
 Classical Guitar Composers List
The purpose of this list is to provide a succinct reference to composers who have composed at least one published original music for, or being transcribed for, solo classical guitar.
Each entry of the list consists of the composer's full name, year of birth, year of death (if applicable), and nationality.
The list in its present form is by no means exhaustive.
http://www.musicated.com/CGCL   (186 words)

  
 copy-us - List of Composers
Living as composer and music theory teacher in Aachen (Germany).
One of the most important composers of his time.
Composers who want to be published by copy-us please send an e-mail to info@copy-us.com.
http://www.copy-us.com/?aktion=list_composers&lang=en   (63 words)

  
 Bratislava Music Festival :: List of Composers
Introduction Greeting Speeches Calendar Program Advance Tickets Organizers of the Festival Contact Download Logotypes List of Performers List of Ensembles List of Composers List of Concert Halls
http://www.hc.sk/bhs/info_skladatelia.php?l=en&rocnik=&cid=114   (27 words)

  
 MI: CYBER: NETWORK: Harmony Music List: Classical Composers
MI: CYBER: NETWORK: Harmony Music List: Classical Composers
http://multiple.insertions.com/mi_html/cyber/network/harmony/class/composer   (27 words)

  
 [smt-list] Composers disscussion list?
> Hello, > > I have been looking for a new music composers email discussion list...
=========================================== Michael Gogins gogins at pipeline period com Irreducible Productions Silence, a language for programming music and sound Available at http://www.csounds.com =========================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Vincent" To: Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 10:12 AM Subject: [smt-list] Composers disscussion list?
I too would like to hear of others.
http://societymusictheory.org:16080/pipermail/smt-talk/2003-July/001107.html   (238 words)

  
 Classical Guitar Composers List
Thanks for your interest in the CG Composers List.
Please make a change if you have a link to this webpage.
http://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/sun/CGCL.html   (35 words)

  
 Composers
You can also see my theme collection of singers and of music instruments.
The National Hymn is composed by Jaime Nunó - no stamps
The composers is split up into this groups:
http://hjem.get2net.dk/composers   (1047 words)

  
 NewMusicBox
I was surprised to find out that the Atlanta Symphony has a board on the wall with a list of composers they like and a list of composers they don't like.
A group of 70 composers attended the first-ever National Performing Arts Convention under the auspices of the American Music Center, the American Composers Forum and Meet The Composer.
I look back at my expectations and I see that my experiences at NPAC lived up to them.
http://www.newmusicbox.org/page.nmbx?id=63hf00   (237 words)

  
 Classical Composers List
Let us know by email so we can update this master list of Classical Composers.
Welcome to our ever-expanding master list of classical composers.
classical composers medieval renaissance baroque preclassical late early romantic period composers 20th century classical composers
http://www.shopconroe.com/music/classical/cl_mlist.htm   (178 words)

  
 The List of Composers
Most of them are responsible for changing my life towards music.
Each of the composer pages include a short biography, photos if that is possible of the composer and his best works, several quotes from the man in question, a list that includes all his compositional works and a list of the awards, if he had the opportunity and luck to fall in that category.
I started with one, now I have at least one copy of 65 noted composers in my possession.
http://users.telenet.be/soundtrack-fm/Composers.htm   (188 words)

  
 Composers 2002 list
They are all members of the SAI Composers Bureau.
The following is a list of the 152 composers featured in Sigma Alpha Iota's 2002 Winter Edition of PAN PIPES (Volume 94, Number 2).
Further information is also available from our Composers Bureau Online.
http://www.sai-national.org/pubs/win02/list.html   (60 words)

  
 MUSIC-USA Catalog: List Composers
select the composer's name from the list below
To display the works of a particular composer,
http://www.music-usa.org/catalog/cat_comp.php4?g_org=N   (60 words)

  
 Composers Info Page
If you leave the field blank, you will be prompted for your email address
This is a public list, which means that the list of members list is available to everyone.
To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Composers Archives.
http://www.create.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/composers   (261 words)

  
 Living Composers Catalog - 20th Century Composers (Deceased) List
The Encyclopedia of Music: Instruments of the Orchestra and the Great Composers.
Listening to Movies: The Film Lover's Guide to Film Music.
Living Composers Catalog - 20th Century Composers (Deceased) List
http://www.baggaleymusic.com/research/DeceasedComposersList.html   (2081 words)

  
 Composers A-Z: The British Music Page - dedicated to British Classical Music
Composers A-Z: The British Music Page - dedicated to British Classical Music
From the Boosey and Hawkes Website, composer profiles of:
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~snc   (150 words)

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