American Composers
The "American sound" continues to change, throughout the course of time. Here is a list to some of America's greatest composer.

• William Billings (1746-1800)
• Stephen Foster (1826-1864)
• Dudley Buck (1839-1909)
• Arthur Foote (1853-1937)
• Edward MacDowell (1860-1908)
• Horatio Parker (1863-1919)
• Richard Hageman (1882-1966)
• Walter Piston (1894-1976)
• Roger Sessions (1896-1985)
• Virgil Thomson (1896-1989)
• Henry Cowell (1897-1965)
• Roy Harris (1898-1979)
• Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
• Paul Creston (1906-1985)
• Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
• Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
• David Diamond (b. 1915)
• Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
• George Rochberg (b. 1918)
• Lukas Foss (b. 1922)
• Peter Mennin (1923-1983)
• Ned Rorem (b. 1923)
• John Corigliano (b. 1938)
• Christopher Rouse (b. 1949)
• Richard Danielpour (b. 1956)
• Aaron Jay Kernis (b. 1960)