Composers, arrangers, choreographers and costume designers also play major roles.

Composers such as the young Joseph Haydn would then have a fixed body of instrumentalists to work with.

Composers Ernst Krenek and Roger Sessions have commented that they show signs of undoubted genius ( see biography of Schnabel by Cesar Saerchinger ).

Composers who write vocal music must have an understanding of the skills, talents, and vocal properties of singers.

The music industry and fans have bestowed Lifetime Achievement honors from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( Rhythm & Soul Heritage Award – 2002 ), NAACP ( Hall of Fame – 1994 ) and the BET Awards ( Lifetime Achievement Award – 2002 ).

Composers who have written a Serenade for string orchestra include Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Suk and Elgar.

Composers have long hired ghostwriters to help them to write musical pieces and songs ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an example of a well-known composer who was paid to ghostwrite music for wealthy patrons.

Composers such as John Cage, Farmers Manual and Brian Eno have used generative systems in their works.

Composers who do not have programming experience to create the technology end of a piece for ensemble and electronics are provided with an assistant who helps them to realize technically intensive parts of the piece.

Composers have often used the contrabassoon to comical or sinister effect by taking advantage of its clumsiness and its sepulchral rattle, respectively.

As a result, she is also considered a significant figure in Canadian music — both CBC Radio 3 and the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada have referred to Case as an " honourary Canadian ".

Composers who have written settings of the Stabat Mater include Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Antonio Vivaldi, and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi ; of the latter's setting, the German poet Tieck opined: " I had to turn away to hide my tears, especially at the place, ' Vidit suum dulcem natum '".

Composers such as Daniel Bukvich, Mark Camphouse, John Mackey, Michael Colgrass, Michael Daugherty, David Del Tredici, Karel Husa, David Maslanka, Olivier Messiaen, Alfred Reed, Joseph Schwantner, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Frank Ticheli, and Eric Whitacre have composed notable works for concert band in recent years.

His orchestral appearances have included the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the American Composers Orchestra.

Composers who wrote a called " Missa Solemnis " have included France Ačko ( 1941 ), Hendrik Andriessen ( 1946 ), Marco Betta, František Brixi, Antonio Buonomo ( 1983 ), Alfredo Casella ( 1944 ), Paul Creston, Georg Druschetzky ( 1804 ), Bohumil Fidler ( 1901 ), Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Konstanty Gorski, Michael Haydn ( 1772 ), Václav Emanuel Horák, Sigurd Islandsmoen ( 1954 ), Friedrich Kiel, Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Josef Lammerz ( 1990 ), Boleslaw Ocias and Johann Nepomuk Schelble, Wolfgang Seifen, Johann Baptist Vanhal ( 1778 ), Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann ( 1848 ).

As head of the Composers ' Union, Khrennikov made no attempt to have the sentence against Lina Prokofieva quashed, or even to mitigate her fate in the Gulag.

The only thing that all Downtown music might be said to have in common is that, at least at the time of its original appearance, it was too bizarre – by dint of excessive length, stasis, simplicity, extemporaneity, consonance, noisiness, pop influence, vernacular reference, or other purported infraction – to have been considered " serious " modern music by proponents of " uptown " music performed from the 1960s through the 1980s at the Juilliard School, Columbia University, and Lincoln Center, under the direction of the composers Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger in concerts by The Group for Contemporary Music, and concerts directed by the French conductor and pianist, Jacques-Louis Monod with the Guild of Composers.

Composers like " Bartok ", " Berg ", " Schoenberg ", " Stravinsky " and " Webern " have ties to genres and different techniques of the past through tones and various tonal traditions.

Second, the work had already been performed before the Union of Composers on September 8, so any substantial changes would have attracted considerable attention and comment.

Composers who have written alternative cadenzas for the first movement include Harold Bauer, Amy Beach, Johannes Brahms, Carl Czerny, Gabriel Fauré, Adolf von Henselt, Mischa Levitzki, Franz Liszt, Freidrich Mockwitz ( Lost ), Ignaz Moscheles, Carl Reinecke, Ferdinand Ries ( Lost ), Clara Schumann, Gino Tagliapietra, Anton Rubinstein and Charles-Valentin Alkan.

Her works have been performed at festivals such as Holland Festival, Gaudeamus Music Week, Music Biennale Zagreb, Archipel Festival ( Swiss ), Time of Music ( Finland ), Festival Aspekte ( Austria ), A-devantgarde ( Germany ), Manca ( France ), International Review of Composers ( Serbia ) among others.

Composers such as Thomas Morley, the only contemporary composer to set Shakespeare, and whose work survives, published collections of their own, roughly in the Italian manner but yet with a unique Englishness ; interest in the compositions of the English Madrigal School have enjoyed a considerable revival in recent decades.

If we now have ‘ Festivals of Music by Female Composers ’, would it not be right to have ‘ Festivals of Music by Male Composers ’?

Composers of Indian classical music used pen names in compositions to assert authorship, including Sadarang, Gunarang ( Fayyaz Ahmed Khan ), Ada Rang ( court musician of Muhammad Shah ), and Ramrang ( Ramashreya Jha ).

Composers such as Rob Hubbard used a lot of special effects in his music which were difficult to replicate on the ST sound chip.

Composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, Milton Babbitt and Jean Barraqué used serial techniques of one sort or another in most of their music.

Composers sometimes call for a wooden beater to be used instead of a metal one, which gives a rather " duller " and quieter tone.

Composers like Thomas A. Dorsey composed gospel works that used elements of blues and jazz in traditional hymns and spiritual songs.

Composers whose music has been used include Roger Roger, Johnny Pearson, Neil Richardson and Frank Chacksfield.

Composers such as John Wilbye and Thomas Weelkes used the pieces in both collections as models for their work.

Composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Aaron Copland, Carlos Chávez, and Heitor Villa-Lobos used folk themes collected by themselves or others in many of their major compositions.

Composers of early chorale motets included Johann Walter, who typically used a cantus firmus type of motet setting ; Balthasar Resinarius, who wrote in the complex polyphonic style ; Sixt Dietrich, who chose the simpler homophonic style ; and Ludwig Senfl, Lupus Hellinck, Thomas Stoltzer, and others.

On November 29, 2010, Crypton started an independent music publication for seeking copyright royalties if songs are used for commercial purposes such as karaoke, because Vocaloid users hardly used the copyright collective Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers ( JASRAC ).

Composers such as Gilles Binchois, Antoine Busnois, and Johannes Brassart all frequently used the technique, always adapting it to their personal styles.

Composers may decide to divide their music into sections.

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

One example is the book Talks With Great Composers, released in the 1950s by Arthur Abell, which contains an unconfirmed interview with Brahms and Joseph Joachim, replete with biblical references.

Composers such as Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy, Giacomo Puccini, Paul Hindemith and Hans Pfitzner pushed Wagnerian harmony further with a more extreme use of chromaticism and greater use of dissonance.

Composers such as Terry Riley, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, Henryk Górecki, Bradley Joseph, John Adams, George Crumb, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Michael Nyman, and Lou Harrison reacted to the perceived elitism and dissonant sound of atonal academic modernism by producing music with simple textures and relatively consonant harmonies, whilst others, most notably John Cage challenged the prevailing Narratives of beauty and objectivity common to Modernism.

From 1973 to 1980, he studied and performed with composer David Tudor in the new music group " Rainforest " ( later called " Composers Inside Electronics ").

Composers of the late 18th century became fascinated with the new possibilities of the symphony and other instrumental music, and generally neglected choral music.

Composers such as Henry Cowell wrote music which asks for the player to reach inside the piano and pluck the strings directly, or to " bow " them with bow hair wrapped around the strings, or play them by rolling the bell of a brass instrument such as a trombone on the array of strings.

Composers Leonard Rosenman and George Tremblay studied with Schoenberg at this time.

In: Soundpieces: Interviews with American Composers, 164 – 177.

Later, young composers continued to be encouraged with the foundation of the biennial Benjamin Britten Composers ’ Competition.

Composers will sometimes specify that the timpani should be struck with implements other than timpani sticks.

In Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers.

* 11-year-old Keith Green becomes the youngest person ever to sign a contract with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ) after publishing, recording and releasing the song " The Way I Used to Be ".

A live album from the band's 1980 performance in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, entitled Live In Rio, was released on Maurice White's Kalimba Records label in 2002, and that same year EWF was honored with the Rhythm & Soul Heritage Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

Upon publication of this song, Green became the youngest person ever to sign with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ).

In Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers.

Composers such as Gasparo Alberti produced music with polyphony using two organs, brass and viols, a style usually associated with Venice, but which flourished in the fine acoustic environment of Santa Maria Maggiore.

In Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers.

In 1967 he co-founded the Instant Composers Pool, an organisation which promoted avant garde Dutch jazz performances and recordings, with Han Bennink and Willem Breuker.

Ariel Ramírez ( at piano ), President of the Argentine Society of Authors and Composers, with eminent folklore vocalist Mercedes Sosa, 1972.