Composers and Musical Styles

He was considered an "innovative French-born composer", known as the Father of Electronic Music.

• Edgar Varese

• Karlheinz Stockhausen

• Mario Davidovsky

• John Cage

Made use of the whole-tone scale. It also applied suggested, rather than depicted, reality.

• Expressionism

• Impressionism

• Neo-classicism

• avant-garde

He further experimented with electronic music and musique concrete.

• Edgar Varese

• Karlheinz Stockhausen

• Mario Davidovsky

• John Cage

A composition of John Cage where the pianist merely opens the piano lid and keeps silent for the duration of the piece.

• 4'33

• STUDY II

• POÈME ÉLECTRONIQUE

• SYNCHRONISMS NO. 5

Revealed the composers minds, instead of presenting an impression of the environment.

• Expressionism

• Impressionism

• Neo-classicism

• avant-garde

A style that was associated with electronic music and dealt with the parameters or dimensions of sound in space.

• Expressionism

• Impressionism

• Neo-classicism

• Avant-garde

He was considered as the "Father of American Jazz".

• Edgar Varese

• Karlheinz Stockhausen

• George Gershwin

• John Cage

He was a commercially successful minimalist and avant-garde composer.

• Philip Glass

• Karlheinz Stockhausen

• Mario Davidovsky

• John Cage

He is best known for his compositions for the stage and his music lectures for young people.

• Edgar Varese

• Karlheinz Stockhausen

• Mario Davidovsky

• Leonard Bernstein

A musical style that uses machines such as synthesizers, amplifiers, tape recorders and loudspeakers to create different sounds.

• Chance Music

• Impressionism

• Electronic Music

• Expressionism