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Educational diagram showing the human voice-producing apparatus, including a side view of the head and neck with labeled tongue, larynx, vocal cords, and trachea, plus a top-down view of the vocal cords during inhalation and sound production. Labels explain the roles of resonators, vocal cord positioning, and cartilage structures in speech.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in a suit, seated at a piano and holding a conductor's baton, appears to be conducting music in a wood-paneled room.
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Anton von Webern, 1940.
Anton Webern
Austrian composer
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
French composer and conductor
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Charles Ives
American composer
Nono
Luigi Nono
Italian composer
Portrait of French composer Erik Satie around 1915, showing him with a bald head, glasses, a full beard, and a suit with a striped tie.
Erik Satie
French composer
Elgar, Sir Edward
Sir Edward Elgar
English composer
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
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Claude Le Jeune
French composer
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Francis Pilkington
British composer
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John Wilbye
English composer
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Alfred Schnittke
Russian composer
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Jacques Arcadelt
French composer
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Johann Hermann Schein
German composer
Sir Lennox Berkeley, 1988.
Sir Lennox Berkeley
British composer
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Sir Andrzej Panufnik
British composer and conductor
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Agostino Agazzari
Italian composer
Duparc
Henri Duparc
French composer

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