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Medieval Notre Dame school Ars antiqua Ars nova Renaissance Burgundian School Franco-flemish school Roman School Baroque Venetian School Neapolitan school Mannheim school Classical First Viennese School (Neoromanticism) Impressionism Folk Primitivism (Neoclassicism) Neoclassicism Atonal expressionism Serialism Neoromanticism Post-minimalism Totalism Total serialism Futurism Ultramodern Aleatoric music Polystylism New simplicity Minimalism Spectral music Darmstadt School Electronic music (Electronic music) Musique concrete Extended techniques New complexity Minimum notes New instruments Other Pop Jazz Guitar Harp Film Mighty Handful (Five) Opera Opera verismo Conservative Progressive Light Waltz Romantic Martial Leonin Hildegard Perotin Machaut Dufay Desprez Tallis Palestrina Lassus Byrd G Gabrieli Gesualdo Dowland Monteverdi Gibbons Schutz Lully Buxtehude Corelli Pachelbel Purcell F Couperin Albinoni Vivaldi Telemann Rameau JS Bach Handel D Scarlatti Weiss Pergolesi CPE Bach Gluck Haydn Boccherini Stamitz Mozart Beethoven Guiliani Paganini - Virtuoso Weber Bochsa Meyerbeer Rossini - Bravura Donizetti - Vulgar Schubert Bellini - Beautiful Berlioz - Pathos Glinka Parish Alvars Mendelssohn Chopin Schumann Liszt - New German School Verdi Wagner - Neoromanticism, heroic Gounod Offenbach - Operetta Franck Bruckner - Radical Smetana J Strauss II Borodin Brahms Saint-Saens Delibes Balakirev Bizet Mussorgsky Tchaikovsky Chabrier Dvorak Massenet - Elegant Lysenko Grieg Rimsky-Korsakov Faure Tarrega Humperdinck Janacek Sousa Elgar Leoncavallo Puccini - Sensitive Albeniz Mahler - Yearning Wolf Debussy Mascagni R Strauss Dukas Glazunov Nielsen Sibelius - Anti-modernism, National Satie - Avant-garde Granados Joplin Rosas Pfitzner Scriabin - Abstract RV Williams Fucik Rachmaninov - Nostalgia Holst Ives - American Five, Microtonal, National, Aleatoric Schoenberg - Second Viennese School, Neoclassicism Gliere Ravel - Folk, Neoclassicism Renie Falla - Folk, Neoclassicism Ruggles - Ultramodern, American Five Schreker - Expressionist Respighi Tournier Bartok Stravinsky - Folk, Primitivism, Neoclassicism Varese - Ultramodern, Microtonal, sonorism Webern - Second Viennese School, Neoclassicism Berg - Second Viennese School, Neoclassicism Barrios Salzedo Russolo Villa-Lobos Steiner - Film father Branco - Impressionism; Folk; Neoclassicism Prokofiev Honegger - Les Six Milhaud - Les Six, Neoclassicism Ornstein - Avant-garde pianist Tiomkin - Film father Hindemith Orff - Carmina Burana (medieval) Still Thomson - Neoclassicism, Neoromanticism, Copland group Cowell - Ultramodern, American Five, aleatoric Gershwin Harris - Neoclassicism, Copland group Poulenc - Les Six, Neoromanticism Antheil Copland - Neoclassicism, National Weill Krenek - Neoclassicism, Zeitoper Dunayevsky Seeger Rodrigo Partch - Microtonal, Instrument builder A Newman - Film father Walton Wolpe Khachaturian Scelsi - Microtonal, sonorism Shostakovich Graca - Folk; Neoclassicism; Atonal expressionism Carter Messiaen - Darmstadt School, Total serialism Barber Schaeffer - Musique concrete, sonorism Rota Pettersson Cage - Darmstadt School, New York School, Aleatoric Nancarrow - Mechanical piano Britten Lutoslawski - Avant-garde, sonorism, aleatoric Sviridov Babbitt Bernstein - Boston School, Popular music Zimmermann - Klangkomposition, Dark Maderna - Electronic, Darmstadt School Piazzolla - Nuevo Tango Xenakis - Darmstadt School, sonorism Ligeti - Avant-garde, sonorism, micropolyphony Nono Santos - Neo-Romantic Berio Boulez - Darmstadt School, Total serialism Feldman - New York School Henry Stockhausen - Darmstadt School, Avant-garde Morricone Goldsmith Ferrari - Tape, aleatoric Pousseur - Aleatoric, Darmstadt School Gubaidulina - Extended instruments and techniques Lucier - Physics and recording technique experimenter Kagel - Darmstadt School, Absurd J Williams Shchedrin Penderecki - Sonorism, national Subotnick Birtwistle - New Music Manchester Schnittke - New Simplicity, Polystylism Davies - New Music Manchester, Polystylism Part - Holy minimalism Riley Lachenmann - Musique concrete instrumentale, new techniques Young - Drone minimalism Kancheli Reich Glass Artemyev - Film electronic Bolcom - Neoromanticism, Eclectism Corigliano - Neoromantic Peixinho - Darmstadt school, post-serialism Ferneyhough Vangelis - Film electronic R Newman Nyman - Minimalism, film Grisey - Spectral, sonorism Shore Adams Murail - Spectral, sonorism Howard Rihm - New Simplicity Horner JL Adams Kuryokhin T Newman Einaudi - New-age, minimalism, film Zimmer - Film electronic Golijov Tiersen Ades

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