| Music > American Composers > Classical |
| Samuel Barber | Adagio for Strings Sure on this Shining Night |
| Leonard Bernstein | Candide, Chichester Psalms, West Side Story |
| Ernest Bloch | America, Danse sacree, Enfantines, Ex-voto, Abodah, Exotic Night, In the Night, Poems of the Sea, Suite symphonique |
| John Cage | Experimented with new musical sounds |
| Aaron Copland | Fanfare for the Common
Man Appalachian Spring |
| Duke Ellington | It Don't Mean a Thing Anatomy of a Murder |
| George Gershwin | Porgy & Bess Rhapsody in Blue |
| Philip Glass | Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha |
| Charles Ives | Robert Browning Overture Symphony No. 1 |
| Scott Joplin | Maple Leaf Rag The Entertainer |
| Marvin Hamlisch | Anatomy of Peace |
| Andre Previn | A Streetcar Named Desire,Brief Encounter,
Piano Concerto, Diversions for Orchestra, Night Thoughts for Orchestra, Concerto for Violin, Double Bass and Orchestra, Violin Concerto "Anne-Sophie" |
| John Philip Sousa | The Liberty Bell , The Thunderer , The Washington Post , Semper Fidelis , The Stars and Stripes Forever , King Cotton , El Capitan , Salvation Army March |
| Nils Vigeland | Vara, No one is an Island, Allora et Ora, Two Olas, Fathers and Sons, Five Pieces, To Jenter, Septet, La Damoiselle Ulue, Prelude and Fugue, Tango a deux |