Aaron Copland (Composer, 1900—1990)
Alan Hovhaness (Composer, 1911—2000)
Alex North (Composer, 1910—1991)
Alfred Newman (Composer, 1900—1970)
Andrew Law (Composer)
Anthony Davis (Composer, 1951)
Arthur Berger (Composer, 1912—2003)
Arthur Schwartz (Composer, 1900—1984)
Bart Howard (Composer, 1915—2004)
Bernard Herrmann (Composer, 1911—1975)
Beth Anderson (Composer)
Big Bill Broonzy (Composer, 1893—1958)
Billy Strayhorn (Composer, 1915—1967)
Burt Bacharach (Composer, 1928)
Burton Lane (Composer, 1912—1997)
Carl Davis (Composer, 1936)
Carlisle Floyd (Composer, 1926)
Carter Burwell (Composer, 1955)
Charles Ives (Composer, 1874—1954)
Cole Porter (Composer, 1893—1964)
Cy Coleman (Composer, 1929—2004)
David Amram (Composer, 1930)
David Baker (Composer)
David Del Tredici (Composer, 1937)
Earle Brown (Composer, 1926—2002)
Edgard Varese (Composer, 1883—1965)
Elliott Carter (Composer, 1908)
Elmer Bernstein (Composer, 1922—2004)
Eubie Blake (Composer, 1883—1983)
Eugene Chadbourne (Composer, 1951)
Frederick Loewe (Composer, 1904)
George Antheil (Composer, 1900—1959)
George Crumb (Composer, 1929)
George Gershwin (Composer, 1898—1937)
Gunther Schuller (Composer, 1925)
Harold Budd (Composer, 1936)
Harry Warren (Composer, 1893—1981)
Hoagy Carmichael (Composer, 1899—1981)
Irving Caesar (Composer, 1895—1996)
James Tenney (Composer, 1934)

Jay Livingston (Composer, 1915—2001)
Jerry Goldsmith (Composer, 1929—2004)
Jerry Herman (Composer, 1933)
Jerry Hunt (Composer, 1943)
Jimmy Webb (Composer, 1946)
John Cage (Composer, 1912—1992)
John Corigliano (Composer, 1938)
John Powell (Composer)
John Williams (Composer, 1932)
John Zorn (Composer, 1953)
Jonathan Larson (Composer, 1960—1996)
Keith Jarrett (Composer, 1945)
La Monte Young (Composer, 1935)
Leo Ornstein (Composer, 1892—2002)
Leo Robin (Composer, 1900—1984)
Leonard Bernstein (Composer, 1918—1990)
Lou Harrison (Composer, 1917—2003)
Marvin Hamlisch (Composer, 1944)
Meredith Monk (Composer, 1942)
Michael Torke (Composer, 1961)
Milton Babbitt (Composer, 1916)
Morton Feldman (Composer, 1926—1987)
Ned Rorem (Composer, 1923)
Oscar Levant (Composer, 1906—1972)
Paul Bowles (Composer, 1910—1999)
Philip Glass (Composer, 1937)
Richard Hovey (Composer)
Richard Rodgers (Composer, 1902—1979)
Robert Ashley (Composer, 1930)
Roger Sessions (Composer, 1896—1985)
Roscoe Mitchell (Composer, 1940)
Samuel Barber (Composer, 1910—1981)
Sigmund Romberg (Composer, 1887—1951)
Stephen Sondheim (Composer, 1930)
Steve Reich (Composer, 1936)
Terry Riley (Composer, 1935)
Virgil Thomson (Composer, 1896—1989)
Walter Piston (Composer, 1894—1976)
William Billings (Composer, 1746—1800)
William Bolcom (Composer, 1938)