In nineteen forty-two, orchestra conductor Andre Kostelanitz asked composer Aaron Copland to write a piece of music about Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

Now the master of syncopation, of course, in music was Scott Joplin, African American composer writing a lot around the area of St. Louis in the turn of the twentieth century.

说到使用切分音的大师,我们自然想到斯考特·乔普林,是位多产的美国黑人作曲家,二十世纪初居住在圣路易斯地区

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Now let's go on here to listen to some music of Rossini-- composer Gioachino Rossini-- coming after Mozart, and he likes chord progressions too, so we're going to listen to a passage of Rossini and see what he does by way of his chord selection.

我们继续，在莫扎特之后我们要听的音乐来自罗西尼-,作曲家焦阿基诺，罗西尼，他也很喜欢用和弦进行，我们来听一下罗西尼的片段，看看他是怎样选择和弦的。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

His idea for the original drawing came from a piece of music by the English composer Ralph Vaughn-Williams.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

It was very popular. The composer earned a good living from the sales of the sheet music.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Another composer,Jerome Kern, once said of Irving Berlin: "He has no place in American music.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

"He ended up being the American Johann Strauss,Jr., the ultimate American composer of light, perfectly crafted orchestral music."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28