| 100% | ROREM | 5 | Pulitzer-winning composer Ned ___, who made "Air Music" |
| 70% | ROREM | 5 | Composer who won a Pulitzer for "Air Music" |
| 69% | ROREM | 5 | Pulitzer-winning composer Ned ___ of "Air Music" |
| 62% | ROREM | 5 | 1976 Pulitzer winning composer, Ned ___ |
| 54% | PERLE | 5 | George who won a 1986 Pulitzer for music |
| 52% | ROREM | 5 | Ned who composed "Air Music" |
| 52% | ROREM | 5 | Pulitzer-winning composer Ned |
| 52% | XXXXX | 5 | Pulitzer-winning composer Ned |
| 51% | ROREM | 5 | Ned, who composed "Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra", first played in '75 and winner of the Pulitzer in '76 |
| 50% | LAMAR | 5 | Rapper/producer who won the 2018 Pulitzer for Music |
| 50% | SHAW | 4 | Caroline who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 46% | MENOTTI | 7 | Italian-American composer who won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Saint of Bleecker Street" |
| 43% | ZWILICH | 7 | Ellen —, US composer whose Symphony no 1 (Three Movements for Orchestra) won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 43% | TAYLORSWIFT | 11 | "Look What You Made Me Do" singer who has won the most Billboard Music Awards (23) (2 wds.) |
| 43% | ROREM | 5 | Pulitzer composer Ned |
| 42% | ROREM | 5 | Neoclassical composer Ned who died in 2022, at age ninety-nine |
| 42% | MANCINI | 7 | Henry —, composer who won a Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Oscar for Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| 42% | RICHARD | 7 | ___ Rodgers, composer with works like "Oklahoma!' and "The Sound of Music" who was the first person to win the EGOT |
| 42% | WELK | 4 | Lawrence who made "Champagne Music" |
| 41% | JASONALDEAN | 11 | "You Make It Easy" singer who won Entertainer of the Year at the 2018 Academy of Country Music Awards: 2 wds. |
| 41% | RUSSOLO | 7 | Composer Luigi who pioneered noise music |
| 40% | SAMUELBARBER | 12 | "Adagio for Strings" artist who won Pulitzer Prize for Music twice and is widely known for "Knoxville: Summer of 1915": 2 wds. |
| 40% | JOHNWILLIAMS | 12 | Film music composer who has won 24 Grammy Awards, five Oscars, and four Golden Globes in the last six decades (2 wds.) |
| 40% | SATIE | 5 | Composer who coined the term furniture music |
| 39% | BRAHMS | 6 | Composer who refused ever to make an opera |
| 39% | AGEE | 4 | James who won a posthumous Pulitzer |
| 39% | AGEE | 4 | Author who won a posthumous Pulitzer |
| 39% | IVES | 4 | Pulitzer-winning composer Charles |
| 39% | KENBURNS | 8 | Documentarian who made "Country Music" and "Jazz": 2 wds. |
| 39% | JEROME | 6 | Composer Kern who wrote the music for "Show Boat" |