Dictionary of Music - Birding America

tyrolienne 451OTHER COMPOSERS FROM 1900 ONComposer Country Musical StyleGeorge Perle (1915– ) United States Serial techniques with tonal elements; especially chambermusic.Goffredo Petrassi (1904–2003) Italy First neoclassic, later serial.Tobias Picker (1954– ) United States Atonal, serial; mostly instrumental; later tonal opera.Willem Pijper (1894–1947) Netherlands Impressionist, bitonal and polytonal; works grow from smallgroup of notes.Daniel Pinkham (1923– ) United States Tonal, some serial; sacred choral music.Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880–1968) Italy Tonal; operas and other vocal music.Henri Pousseur (1929– ) Belgium Serial, electronic, aleatory, some microtones, quotation.Mel Powell (1923–1998) United States Originally jazz pianist, later atonal, serial, electronic; semiimprovisationalworks.André Previn (1929– )German-born–U.S. Began as jazz pianist, later film scores, conductor; mostlytonal music; symphony, chamber works, concertos, songcycles.Shulamit Ran (1949– ) Israel–U.S. Dense dissonant expressionism; mostly instrumental music.Bernard Rands (1934– ) Great Britain–U.S. Electronic, aleatory; virtuoso solo pieces.Wallingford Riegger (1885–1961) U.S. Dissonant, atonal; unconventional serial.Vittorio Rieti (1898–1994) Italy–U.S. Neoclassic; all genres.Wolfgang Rihm (1952– ) Germany At first expressionist, later eclectic influences; very prolific;many vocal, chamber and orchestral works; also choralmusic, operas, ballets, music theater. Traditional forms butsometimes spatial division of ensembles.Terry Riley (1935– ) United States Electronic, minimalist; later instrumental music drawing ondiverse non-Western idioms.Ned Rorem (1923– ) United States Mostly tonal, some serial and impressionist elements; 300songs and song cycles, choral, chamber, orchestral works.Christopher Rouse (1949– ) United States Early dissonance, fast tempos, pop (rock) influence; blend oftonal, atonal; quotation; instrumental.Poul Ruders (1949– ) Denmark Minimalist, atonal; quotation and parody of medieval,Renaissance and baroque works; also incorporatescontemporary pop idioms (Latin dance, rock); opera,instrumental works.John Rutter (1945– ) England Choral composer and conductor, especially of sacred music.Frederic Rzewski (1938– ) United States Electronic, live electronic, collective improvisation; politicalworks in more traditional styles, virtuoso piano music.Joseph Schwantner (1943– ) United States Instrumental works, emphasizing sonority; also works forvoice and instruments.Salvatore Sciarrino (1947– ) Italy Individualistic transcriptions and elaborations of Renaissanceand baroque music; many piano works, opera, theatermusic, vocal, orchestral and chamber works.Humphrey Searle (1915–1982) Great Britain Serial.Rodion Shchedrin (1932– ) Russia Combines freely serial and other avant-garde techniques withtraditional tonal, folk elements; opera, ballet, symphonies,concertos, choral works.(Continues)