Roy Harris

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Roy Harris was an influential 20th-century American composer best known for his symphonies that drew on folk traditions and a distinctly national musical style.

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Roy Harris canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American composer
composer
human
centuryOfActivity 20th century
compositionalForm chamber music
choral music
symphony
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
creativePeriod interwar period
post–World War II era
familyName Harris NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork music composition
symphonic composition
genre classical music
orchestral music
givenName Roy NERFINISHED
influenced American symphonic tradition
later American composers
influencedBy American folk traditions
folk music
hymn tunes
shape-note singing
movement American classical music
American nationalist music
name Roy Harris NERFINISHED
nationality American
notableFor distinctly American musical style
symphonies
notableWork Symphony No. 11 NERFINISHED
Symphony No. 3 NERFINISHED
Symphony No. 4 "Folk Song Symphony" NERFINISHED
Symphony No. 6 "Gettysburg" NERFINISHED
Symphony No. 7 NERFINISHED
Symphony No. 9 NERFINISHED
notedAs influential 20th-century American composer
occupation composer
style contrapuntal writing
modal
tonal
uses American folk melodies
irregular rhythms
open harmonies

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