NSMA · Hall of Fame · Music history
Hall of Fame music history
Survey influential American composers across concert, popular, theater, jazz, and film music.
American composers
- John Philip Sousa
- Amy Beach
- Scott Joplin
- Charles Ives
- Florence Price
- Irving Berlin
- Cole Porter
- George Gershwin
- Duke Ellington
- William Grant Still
- Aaron Copland
- Richard Rodgers
- Samuel Barber
- Alan Hovhaness
- John Cage
- Leonard Bernstein
- Stephen Sondheim
- John Williams
- Philip Glass
What to recognize
- Each composer's approximate lifetime and primary musical field
- Representative works and distinctive style
- Connections among concert music, jazz, musical theater, popular song, and film