Composers for Modern Dance

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This is a list of composers whose compositions are useful for modern dance. Those names with links will search the Middlebury College Music Library catalog for recordings of their works.

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A

Adams, Paul	Ashley, Robert
Arel, Bülent	Austin, Larry
Antheil, George	Avery, Rene

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B

Babbitt, Milton	Berio, Luciano
Bacewicz, Grazyna	Bernstein, Leonard
Badings, Henk	Blacher, Boris
Barber, Samuel	Bloch, Ernest
Bartok, Bela	Boulez, Pierre
Bebey, Francis	Bowles, Paul
Bennett, Robert Russell	Britten, Benjamin
Berg, Alban	Brooks, William
Bergsma, William	Brown, Earle

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C

Cage, John	Chen, Yi
Campion, Edmund	Chou, Wên-chung
Carter, Elliot	Colgrass, Michael
Casella, Alfredo	Copland, Aaron
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario	Cowell, Henry
Cazden, Norman	Creston, Paul
Chávez, Carlos	Crumb, George

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D

Dallapiccola, Luigi	Dello Joio, Norman
Darling, David	Dempster, Stuart
Dashow, James	Diamond, David
Davidovsky, Mario	Dobbins, Lori
Davies, Peter Maxwell	Drummond, Dean
Debussy, Claude

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E

El Dabh, Halim

Eno, Brian

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F

Farberman, Harold	Fine, Irving
Ferrarri, Luc	Foss, Lukas
Feidman, Giora

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G

Gassman, Resi	Gould, Morton
Gershwin, George	Griffes, Elliot
Ginastera, Alberto	Gubaidulina, Sofia
Glass, Philip	Guion, David
Goeb, Roger

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H

Haieff, Alexei	Hildegard von Bingen
Hanson, Howard	Hindemith, Paul
Harris, Roy	Holst, Gustav
Harrison, Lou	Honegger, Arthu r
Haza, Ofra	Horn, Paul
Henry, Pierre	Hovhaness, Alan
Henze, Hans Werner

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I

Ibert, Jacques

Ives, Charles

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J

Janácek, Leoš	Jongen, Joseph
Jolivet, André

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K

Kabalevsky, Dmitry Borisovich	Kelemen, Milko
Kagel, Mauricio	Khachaturian, Aram
Kay, Hershy	Kodály, Zoltán
Kay, Ulysses	Krenek, Ernst

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L

Ligeti, György

Luening, Otto

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M

Maal, Baaba	Milhaud, Darius
Maderna, Bruno	Mimaroglu, Ilhan
Malipiero, Gian	Monk, Meredith
Martin, Frank	Moore, Douglas
Mayuzumi, Toshiro	Mumma, Gordon
McBride, Robert
Messiaen, Olivier

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N

Maal, Baaba	Milhaud, Darius
Maderna, Bruno	Mimaroglu, Ilhan
Malipiero, Gian	Monk, Meredith
Martin, Frank	Moore, Douglas
Mayuzumi, Toshiro	Mumma, Gordon
McBride, Robert
Messiaen, Olivier

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O

Oliveros, Pauline

Orff, Carl

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P

Parsons, David	Pinkham, Daniel
Partch, Harry	Piston, Walter
Penderecki, Krzysztof	Porter, Quincy
Persichetti, Vincent	Poulenc, Francis
Pickett, Lenny	Prokofiev, Sergey

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R

Raaljkakers, Dick	Riley, Terry
Ravel, Maurice	Roach, Steve
Reich, Steve	Rochberg, George
Rich, Robert	Rogers, Bernard
Riegger, Wallingford	Rorem, Ned
Rieti, Vittorio	Ruggles, Carl

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S

Sala, Oskar	Shostakovich, Dmitri
Satie, Erik	Siegmeister, Eli
Schaeffer, Pierre	Sowerby, Leo
Schoenberg, Arnold	Starer, Robert
Schuller, Gunther	Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Schuman, William	Stravinsky, Igor
Scriabin, Aleksandr	Surinach, Carlos
Sessions, Roger	Sydeman, William