- Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. - Michael Duffy
Michael Duffy is an Australian radio presenter and newspaper columnist. He presents the "Counterpoint" program on ABC Radio National. He was originally hired in an attempt by Radio National management to find a "right-wing Phillip Adams". He promotes global warming skepticism. He and his wife ran the publishing house Duffy & Snellgrove from 1996 to 2005. - David Borden
David Borden (b. December 25, 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer of minimalist music. In 1969, with the support of Robert Moog, he founded what is considered to be the first synthesizer ensemble, Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company. In addition to his work with electronics and the Mother Mallard ensemble, David Borden has written music for various chamber and vocal ensembles. He is also an accomplished jazz pianist. - Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud (September 4, 1892 - June 22, 1974) was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of "Les Six" - also known as the "Groupe des Six" - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are particularly noted as being influenced by jazz and for their use of polytonality (music in more than one key at once). - Evan Parker
Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944 in Bristol) is a British free-improvising saxophone player from the European free jazz scene. - Joe Pass
Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Passalaqua, January 13, 1929, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, died May 23, 1994, Los Angeles, California), was a jazz guitarist. His extensive use of walking basslines, melodic counterpoint during improvisation, and use of a chord-melody style of play attributed to him the title guitar virtuoso. - Phil Lesh
Phillip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940 in Berkeley, California) is a musician and founding member of the rock band, Grateful Dead; he played bass guitar in that group throughout their entire 30-year career. Lesh started out as a trumpet player with a keen interest in avant-garde classical music and free jazz; he also studied under the Italian modernist Luciano Berio at Mills College (classmates included minimalist composer Steve Reich, … - Heinrich Schenker
Heinrich Schenker was a music theorist, best known for his approach to musical analysis, now usually called Schenkerian analysis. Schenker was born in Wisniowczyki in Galicia in Austria-Hungary. His musical talent was recognized early on, and at the age of 13 he was sent to study with Carl Mikuli, a student of Frédéric Chopin, in Lemberg (now Lwów). He moved to Vienna where he studied music under Anton Bruckner and became known as a pianist, … - Paul Desmond
Paul Desmond (25 November 1924 - 30 May 1977), born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, "Take Five". Known to have possessed an idiosyncratic wit, he was one of the most popular musicians to come out of the West Coast's "cool jazz" scene. - Johann Pachelbel
Johann Pachelbel (baptized September 1, 1653 - March 3, 1706) was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque. - Paul Clark
Paul Clark (b. 4 December 1953, Belfast) is a Northern Irish television presenter and journalist. He is currently a presenter and reporter for UTV Live. Paul trained as a journalist at the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education having attended St. Mary's CBGS. In the past, Paul has been a presenter on Downtown Radio and RTE Radio 2. In the early 1980s, he hosted a series of debates, Milestones or Millstones, for UTV, … - Jason Webley
Jason Webley is a musician who began as a busker, playing accordion in the streets of Seattle, but has since moved in-doors and on stage, playing venues and festivals all across the world. His music is a combination of folk, gypsy, and punk. He used to theatrically die every Halloween only to be born in the spring (usually around May Day or Webley's springtime Birthday). At the 2005 Halloween show he stated that he no longer wanted to live and die with the seasons. - Ruth Crawford Seeger
Ruth Crawford Seeger (July 3, 1901 in East Liverpool, Ohio - November 18, 1953 in Chevy Chase, Maryland), born Ruth Porter Crawford, was a modernist composer and an American folk music specialist. In the twenties and early thirties Crawford Seeger wrote atonal works influenced by Alexander Scriabin, which favored dissonance, post-tonal harmonies and utilized irregular rhythms and meters. Her technique may have been influenced by the music of Schoenberg, … - Greg Graffin
Gregory Walter Graffin, Ph.D. (born November 6, 1964 in Racine, Wisconsin) is the vocalist and co-founder of the punk rock band Bad Religion. In 1980, at the age of 15, Graffin and a few high school classmates formed Bad Religion in Southern California's San Fernando Valley. After making a name for themselves in the Los Angeles punk scene, releasing three EPs and two full-length albums, they disbanded in 1984. - Carl Ruggles
American composer Charles Sprague Ruggles, better known as Carl, wrote finely-crafted pieces using "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music. Famous for his prickly personality, Ruggles was nonetheless friends with Henry Cowell, Edgard Varèse, Charles Ives, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Charles Seeger. - Hugo Riemann
Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann was a German musicologist. He is sometimes referred to simply as "Riemann" in material on music theory and musicology, but should not be confused with the mathematician Bernhard Riemann, who is more commonly known by that name in other contexts. Riemann was born at Grossmehlra, near Sondershausen. He was educated in law and other subjects at Berlin and Tübingen. - Bobby Previte
Robert "Bobby" Previte (born July 16, 1959, Niagara Falls, New York) is a drummer, composer and bandleader. Previte earned a B.A. in music at the University at Buffalo, where he also studied percussion. He moved to New York City in 1979, and became active in the city's thriving jazz and experimental music scenes. He began professional relationships with John Zorn, Wayne Horvitz, Elliott Sharp and others that have continued, intermittently, to the present - Andrew Imbrie
Andrew Walsh Imbrie (Born April 6, 1921) is an American composer of classical music. In 1937, he went to Paris to study briefly with Nadia Boulanger, but returned to the United States the next year, going to Princeton University, where he received his degree in 1942. His senior thesis there, a string quartet, was recorded by the Juilliard Quartet. He then went to the University of California, Berkeley, where he received an M.A. in Music in 1947. - Robert de Cormier
Robert DeCormier is an American musical conductor, arranger, and director, and a graduate of the Juilliard School. He has arranged music for many singers and groups, including Harry Belafonte and Peter, Paul, and Mary, and has worked with Milt Okun. DeCormier is perhaps most famous for his spiritual arrangements. He is the director of Counterpoint, a choral group which consists of eleven members, and conducted music for the opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis, … - Gioseffo Zarlino
Gioseffo Zarlino (January 31 or March 22, 1517 - February 4, 1590), was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He was possibly the most famous music theorist between Aristoxenus and Rameau, and made a large contribution to the theory of counterpoint as well as to musical tuning. - Thomas Campion
Thomas Campion, (sometimes Campian) (February 12, 1567 - March 1, 1620) was an English composer, poet and physician. Campion was born in London and studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge, but left without taking a degree. He later entered Gray's Inn to study law in 1586. However, he left in 1595 without having been called to the bar. On February 10 1605 he received his medical degree from the University of Caen. - Charles Wood
Charles Wood (June 15 1866-July 12 1926) was an Irish composer and teacher. Born in Armagh, in present-day Northern Ireland, he was the fifth child and third son of Charles Wood Sr. and Jemima Wood. His father was a tenor in the choir of the nearby St. Patrick's Cathedral, and later worked as the Diocesan Registrar of the church. From around 1872 to 1883, Wood received his early education at the Armagh Cathedral Church School, … - Johann Fux
Johann Joseph Fux was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era. He is most famous as the author of "Gradus ad Parnassum", a treatise on counterpoint, which has become the single most influential book on the Palestrina style of Renaissance polyphony. Almost all modern courses on Renaissance counterpoint, a mainstay of college music curricula, are indebted in some degree to this work by Fux. - Lejaren Hiller
Lejaren Hiller (b. February 23, 1924, New York City, d. January 26, 1994, Buffalo, New York) was an American composer who founded the Experimental Music Studio at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1958 and collaborated on the first significant computer music composition, 1957's "Illiac Suite", with Leonard Issacson. This was his fourth string quartet. - Joseph Jongen
Joseph Jongen was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator. Jongen was born in Liège. On the strength of an amazing precocity for music, he was admitted to the Liège Conservatoire at the extraordinarily young age of seven, and there he spent the next sixteen years. The admission board was not disappointed. Jongen won a First Prize for Fugue in 1891, an honors diploma in piano the next year, and another for organ in 1896. - Gianluigi Trovesi
Gianluigi Trovesi (born in 1944) is an Italian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer. A native of Nembro, a small town near Bergamo, Lombardy, he studied harmony and counterpoint under Vittorio Fellegara. Since then he has been a major player in the Italian and European (free) jazz scene. He also teaches clarinet and saxophone in Italy. He has won various Italian jazz awards. - Jan Dismas Zelenka
Jan Dismas Zelenka, also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka was a Czech Baroque composer whose music was notably adventurous with great harmonic invention and mastery of counterpoint. Zelenka played the violone, the largest and lowest member of the viol family, analogous to the double-bass in the violin family of stringed instruments. Zelenka was born in Louňovice pod Blaníkem, a small market town southeast of Prague in what was then Bohemia. - Ralph Shapey
Ralph Shapey (March 12, 1921 - June 13, 2002) was an American composer and conductor. He is well-known for his work as a composition professor at the University of Chicago, where he founded and directed the Contemporary Chamber Players. Shapey was a MacArthur Fellow in 1982. Although Shapey's style is characterized by angularity, irony, and technical rigor, it eschews the pointillism, anti-emotionalism, and detached austerity of much twelve-tone music. - Johannes Tinctoris
Johannes Tinctoris (c.1435-1511) was a Flemish composer and music theorist of the Renaissance. He is known to have studied in Orleans, and to have been master of the choir there; he also may have been director of choirboys at Chartres. Because he was employed at Cambrai Cathedral for four months in 1460, it has been speculated that he studied with Dufay, who spent the last part of his life there; certainly Tinctoris must at least have known the elder Burgundian there. - Ted Greene
Theodore ("Ted") Greene (September 26, 1946 - July 23, 2005) was an American fingerstyle jazz guitarist, music columnist, and music educator active in Encino, California. - Gardner Read
Gardner Read (born January 2, 1913 in Evanston, Illinois; died November 10, 2005 in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts) was an American composer and musical scholar. His first musical studies were in piano and organ, and he also took lessons in counterpoint and composition at the School of Music at Northwestern University. In 1932 he was awarded a four-year scholarship to the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson. - Ned Sherrin
Ned Sherrin (born 18 February 1931 in Somerset, England) is a broadcaster, author and stage director. He attended Sexey's School, in Bruton, Somerset. Although he read law at Exeter College, Oxford and subsequently qualified as a barrister, he became involved in theatre at Oxford and joined British television at the founding of independent television in 1956, producing shows for ATV in Birmingham. - Randy Oglesby
Randy Oglesby is an actor, best known for his role as Degra on "Star Trek: Enterprise". He played the Miradorn twins, Ah-Kel and Ro-Kel in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Vortex" and Silaran Prin in "The Darkness and the Light". He played Professor Seidel in the Angel episode "Supersymmetry". He also played in the season 5 episode of Star Trek Voyager Counterpoint as a telepathic alien named Kir. - R. O. Morris
Reginald Owen Morris (March 3, 1886 - December 14 1948), almost universally cited in sources and referred to even by his friends by his initials, as 'R.O. Morris', was a British composer whose compositions have been overshadowed by his formidable reputation as a teacher. He was born in York. He was educated at Harrow School, New College, Oxford and the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London, where he subsequently became professor of counterpoint and composition. - Andreas Werckmeister
Andreas Werckmeister (November 30, 1645 - October 26, 1706) was an organist, music theorist, and composer of the Baroque era. Born in Benneckenstein, Germany, Werckmeister attended schools in Nordhausen and Quedlinburg. He received his musical training from his uncles Heinrich Christian Werckmeister and Heinrich Victor Werckmeister. In 1664 he became an organist in Hasselfelde; ten years later in Elbingerode; and in 1696 of the Martinskirche in Halberstadt. - Marion Bauer
Marion Bauer (b. Walla Walla, Washington, August 15 1882; d. South Hadley, Massachusetts, August 9 1955) was an American composer. The daughter of French Jewish immigrants, she studied piano with her sister Emilie in their hometown, and later with Henry Holden Huss and Eugene Heffley in New York. She studied harmony and analysis with Nadia Boulanger, in exchange for English lessons, and piano with Raoul Pugno, both in Paris. - Alonso Lobo
Alonso Lobo was a Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. Although not as famous as Victoria, he was highly regarded at the time, and Victoria himself considered him to be his equal. He was born at Osuna. After being a choirboy at the cathedral in Seville, he received a degree at Osuna University, and took a position as a canon at a church in Osuna sometime before 1591. In that year the Seville cathedral appointed him as assistant to Francisco Guerrero, … - Imogen Holst
Imogen Claire Holst, CBE (April 12, 1907-March 9, 1984) was a British composer and conductor, and the only child of composer Gustav Holst. Imogen Holst was brought up in west London and educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father was director of music. She worked with Herbert Howells before entering the Royal College of Music in 1926 to study composition with George Dyson and Gordon Jacob, harmony and counterpoint with Ralph Vaughan Williams, … - Théodore Dubois
François Clément Théodore Dubois was a French composer, organist and music teacher. Dubois was born in Rosnay in Marne. He studied first under Louis Fanart (the choirmaster at Reims cathedral) and later at the Paris Conservatoire under Ambroise Thomas. He won the Prix de Rome in 1861. In 1868, he became choirmaster at the Church of the Madeleine, and in 1871 took over from César Franck as choirmaster at the Church of Sainte-Clotilde. - André Gedalge
André Gedalge, was an inflential French composer and teacher. Gedalge was born at 75 rue des Saints-Pères, in Paris, where he first worked as a bookseller and editor specializing in "livres de prix" for public schools. During this time he published books by Marie Laubot and Edmond About for the Librairie Gedalge. It wasn't until 1886, at the age of 28, that he entered the Paris Conservatory. In that same year he won the Second Prix de Rome.
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