American composers
Stateside music creators
American composers are musicians from the United States who write original musical works.
The term encompasses classical figures like Copland, Gershwin, and Bernstein, jazz composers like Ellington and Monk, and contemporary creators across genres from film scores to hip-hop.
She studied American composers of the twentieth century.
- classical musicWestern orchestral tradition
- Jelly Roll MortonPioneering New Orleans pianist-composer
- Cole PorterAmerican songwriter, Broadway musicals
- jazz standardEssential repertoire piece
- John CagePrepared piano inventor
Duke Ellington · Aaron Copland · Scott Joplin · Irving Berlin · George Gershwin · Rhapsody in Blue · John Williams · Lin-Manuel Miranda · John Adams · Billy the Kid · Stephen Sondheim · Thelonious Monk · Philip Glass · Charles Mingus · Barber · Leonard Bernstein · West Side Story · Broadway musical
- American musicjazz, blues, country music, rock, country
- violinviolin, bowing, violin bow, strings, fingerboard
- orchestrassymphony orchestra, chamber orchestra, philharmonic, string ensemble, sinfonietta
- chamber musicstring quartet, string quartets, chamber music, piano trios, piano quintet
- musicologymusicology, music history, music theory, ethnomusicology, music criticism