This essay will consist of information about nine composers and one piece of work that they are known for dating from 1862 to 1990. The names of these composers are: Aaron Copeland, Claude Debussy, Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Leonard Berstein, Igor Stravinsky, and Arnold Schoenberg. The first composer I will discuss will be Aaron Copeland (1900 – 1990). Mr. Copeland was born in Brooklyn, New York USA to Russian American immigrant parents. His style is strongly …showed first 75 words of 2029 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2029 total…homophonic texture. The melody is very disjunct, with a definite atonal harmony with no meter. This is from an opera with bizarre ideas. The song is about an evil clown drilling a hole in a skull and smoking tobacco out of it. This is also a form of sprechtimme which in German means speech-singing. This is the end of my essay and I must admit that I learned more about these composers than I expected.