Composers such as Antonio Caldara, Arcangelo Corelli, and Johann Rosenmuller were early influences.

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

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.

Composers such as Marin Marais, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Schenck, Antoine Forqueray, and Carl Friedrich Abel wrote virtuoso music for it.

Composers also wrote concert arias, which are not part of any larger work, such as " Ah perfido " by Beethoven, and a number of concert arias by Mozart, such as " Conservati fedele ".

Composers such as Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Lodovico Agostini, and later Carlo Gesualdo, represented the avant-garde tendency of the composers there, writing for gifted virtuoso performers, including the famous concerto di donne — the three virtuoso female singers Laura Peverara, Anna Guarini, and Livia d ' Arco.

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, arrangers, and bandleaders have used sections with more or fewer players, and additional instruments, such as valve trombone, baritone horn / euphonium ( both of which are usually used in place of or with trombones ), vibes, bass clarinet, French horn, tuba, banjo, accordion and strings ( violin, viola, cello ).

Many musicians and artists use ' patcher ' type programmes, such as Pd, Bidule, Max / MSP and Audiomulch as well as ( or instead of ) digital audio workstations or sequencers and there are still a significant number of people using more " traditional " software only approaches such as CSound or the Composers Desktop Project.

Composers such as Arnold Bax, Frank Bridge, Gustav Holst, Benjamin Dale, York Bowen and William Walton wrote pieces for him.

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

Composers of the Renaissance wrote a fair amount of program music, especially for the harpsichord, including works such as Martin Peerson's The Fall of the Leafe and William Byrd's The Battell.

Composers such as Calixa Lavallée developed the Canadian military band sound that has become a worldwide sensation since the 19th century.

Composers such as Mozart were writing chamber music for these groups, called Harmonie bands, which evolved to a standard instrumentation of two oboes, two clarinets, two horns, and two bassoons.

Composers such as Gustav Mahler and Jean Sibelius were pushing the bounds of Post-Romantic Symphonic writing.

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.

Composers who visited Ferrara during the period included numerous important masters such as Claudio Monteverdi, John Dowland, Orlande de Lassus, Claudio Merulo, and, most importantly, Carlo Gesualdo.

Composers such as William Byrd, Doctor John Bull, Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Tallis.

Contemporary Composers, including Dominick Argento, Jake Heggie, Conrad Susa and Richard Danielpour, have produced works specifically for von Stade.

Composers who have produced son et lumière shows include Jacqueline Nova and Halim El-Dabh.

Composers who wrote solo harpsichord music were numerous during the whole Baroque era in European countries including Italy, Germany, England and France.

Composers found ways to make music expressive of the texts they were setting.

At this time, the official Soviet policy towards music changed ; a special bureau, the " Composers ' Union ", was established in order to keep track of the artists and their doings.

James Newton Howard was honored by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for his composition of the music for the film.

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

Composers are routinely trained in the " Palestrina style " to this day, especially as codified by the 18c music theorist Johann Joseph Fux.

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 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 ).

The Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting, established in 1955 in Novello's memory, are awarded each year by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors ( BASCA ) to British songwriters and composers as well as to an outstanding international music writer.

Composers may decide to divide their music into sections.

The style emerged out of the political crisis in 1956, following Stalin's death ; that same year saw the Warsaw Autumn music festival inaugurated, from whence came additional popularity for the Polish Composers ' School.

* International Rostrum of Composers, an annual forum for the promotion of contemporary classical music.

* Severnside Composers Alliance, www. severnsidecomposersalliance. co. uk-a contemporary music organisation based in Bristol, UK

In his entry on Rota in the 1988 edition of The Concise Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Composers and Musicians, music scholar Nicholas Slonimsky described Rota as " brilliant " and stated that his musical style:

The SFS has won eleven awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for programming of new music and commitment to American music.

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

Composers of Carnatic music were often inspired by religious devotion and were usually scholars proficient in one or more of the languages Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil, or Telugu.

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 ).