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 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 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.

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.

Composers represented in the annual festival have included such artists as Meredith Monk, Muhal Richard Abrams, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Frederic Rzewski, Margaret Leng Tan, Henry Brant, Conlon Nancarrow, Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros, Lou Harrison, Laurie Anderson, LaMonte Young, Leroy Jenkins, Janice Giteck, Kyle Gann, Olly Wilson, William Parker, Gavin Bryars, Michael Nyman, Brian Eno and many others.

Composers included Tadeusz Baird, Boguslaw Schaeffer, Włodzimierz Kotoński, Witold Szalonek, Krzysztof Penderecki, Witold Lutosławski, Wojciech Kilar, Kazimierz Serocki and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki.

Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima ( Tren ofiarom Hiroszimy in Polish ) is a musical composition for 52 string instruments, composed in 1960 by Krzysztof Penderecki ( b. 1933 ), which took third prize at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Composers ' Competition in Katowice in 1960.

The Komeda Jazz Festival and the Krzysztof Komeda Composers Competition has been held in Słupsk, Poland each November since 1995.

Composers included Martland, Benjamin Britten, Paul Hindemith, Francis Poulenc, Dmitri Shostakovich, Michael Tippett, György Ligeti and Elliott Carter.

Composers of the 20th century variously composed études related to the old tradition ( György Ligeti ), études that required wholly unorthodox technique ( John Cage ), and études that required unusually facile technique.

Composers from this era included Ferenc Szabó, Endre Szervánszky, Pál Kadosa, Ferenc Farkas and György Ránki.

* Composers making a major contribution to the organ repertoire include Marcel Dupré, Maurice Duruflé, Herbert Howells, Jean Langlais, György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen and Kaikhosru Sorabji.

Salmenhaara's published writings include a textbook on music theory, a history of 20th century music, monographs on Ligeti, Jean Sibelius's Tapiola and the Brahms symphonies, biographies of Jean Sibelius and Leevi Madetoja, and a history of the Society of Finnish Composers.

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

* Machlis, Joseph American Composers of Our Time ( Thomas Y. Crowell.

Composers who included almglocken among their musical palette include Tōru Takemitsu, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Roy Harter, John Adams, Joseph Schwantner, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Composers such as Joseph Parry, whose work Myfanwy is still a favourite Welsh song, were followed by David Jenkins and D. Emlyn Evans, who tailored songs specifically for the Victorian music market.

Composers before Beethoven, such as Joseph Haydn ( 104 ) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 41 ), are not considered relevant to this superstition.

In 1932, Joseph Stalin created the Union of Soviet Composers, and laid out a doctrine of " socialist realism " in art.

Composers like John Adams often employ Romantic-size orchestras, as in Adams ' opera Nixon in China ; Philip Glass and others may be more free, yet still identify size-boundaries.

Talking Music: Conversations With John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers.

The group had hoped to cover a number of different artists, but only two albums from this period saw completion and release-1984's George and James ( dedicated to George Gershwin and James Brown ) and 1986's Stars & Hank Forever: The American Composers Series ( featuring tributes to Hank Williams and John Philip Sousa ).

* American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers – ASCAP Henry Mancini Award – John Debney

Herbert also worked closely with John Philip Sousa, Irving Berlin and others in founding the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers ( ASCAP ) on February 13, 1914, becoming its vice-president and director until his death in 1924.

Composers like John Philip Sousa developed the American military band sound that has become a worldwide sensation since the 19th century.

* Talking Music: Conversations With John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers 1995 ( ISBN 0-306-80893-5 )

Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers.

At sixteen he was awarded the New York Philharmonic's Young Composers ' Award and the John Harms Chorus premiered his choral work O Filii et Filiae at Town Hall ( 2 May 1954 ).

* Duckworth, William, Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Composers, 1995, Schirmer ISBN 0-02-870823-7

Kermit Driscoll has recorded and performed with: The American Composers Orchestra, Patti Austin, Chet Baker, Bang-on-a-Can All Stars, Don Byron, John Cale, Dave Douglas, Robert Dick, Buddy Emmons, Michael Feinstein, Erik Friedlander, Bill Frisell ( a band member from 1987 to 1996 ), George Garzone, Elliot Goldenthal, Michael Gordon, Gerry Hemingway, John Hollenbeck, Wayne Horvitz, Stephan Houben, David Johansen, Russ Johnson, Ben E. King, Tony Malaby, Ben Monder, The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, The New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur, Philharmonia Virtuosi, The Pointer Sisters, Buddy Rich ( bass chair 1981 ), Mick Rossi, Elliott Sharp, Keely Smith, Phoebe Snow, Soldier String Quartet, Toots Thielmans, Mel Torme, Tony Trischka, Emil Viklicky, Kenny Werner and John Zorn.

He has played and recorded with a long list of jazz greats including Jackie McLean, Art Blakey, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard and The New Jazz Composers Octet, Benny Golson's New Jazztet, One for All ( Eric Alexander, Jim Rotondi, David Hazeltine, John Webber, Joe Farnsworth ), Hank Jones, Cecil Payne, Horace Silver, Cedar Walton, Harold Mabern, Larry Willis, Eddie Henderson, The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band ( featuring Slide Hampton, James Moody, Jimmy Heath, Roy Hargrove ), Avishai Cohen, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and Michael Weiss, among many others.

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

The Hub grew from the League of Automatic Music Composers: John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Jim Horton, and Rich Gold.

With Frederick Corder and John Blackwood McEwen, he co-founded the Society of British Composers in 1905.