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Dodecaphony or Serialism is the use of the twelve semi-tones as the harmonic and structural basis, rather than the traditional harmonic key structure which governed classical music until the turn of the twentieth century. Arnold Schoenberg was the father of twelve-tone composition in the 1930s. Moving into the post-war era, all dodecaphonic or serial musical parameters, including note lengths, dynamics and even timbres were set in rows. After 1948, the Darmstadt “holiday courses” became the centre of Dodecaphony or Serialism for almost a decade. Despite the mathematical and logical basis, twelve-tone composition still produced many highly emotional works such as Luigi Nono’s Il Canto sospeso.
As the technical and electronic possibilities continued to grow and thrive after the war, the first studio solely dedicated to electronic music was founded in Cologne in 1951 by Herbert Eimert. Important electronic music composers were Edgar Varese, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ernst Krenek, Maurice Kagel, Luciano Berio and Iannis Xenakis, who was also an assistant to the architect Le Corbusier.
Aleatoric comes from the Latin “alea”, meaning dice. Aleatoric composition leaves elements of the music to chance. The American composer John Cage was the first to experiment with aleatoric music, and many others followed, in particular K. Stockhausen, P. Boulez, W. Lutosławski.
Soundscape composition plays with sense and emotion, it uses long drawn musical landscapes to give the listener time to recognise and experience the music in a whole new way. The most important compositions include Atmosphères and Lontano by György Ligeti. Other works of this type were created by Luigi Nono, Krzysztof Penderecki, Iannis Xenakis.
Minimalism also came to Europe from the USA. Minimalism uses repetitive, wide blocks of sound, without strong contrasts or dramatic changes. It is in the repetition, with gradual, small changes, that the minimalist effect is achieved. The pioneers of minimalism in the 1960s were American composers Philip Glass, John Adams, Le Monte Young, Terry Riley and Steve Reich. They were followed in Europe by Henryk Górecki and Arvo Pärt.
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Buch
Item no.: 840967
for: Woodwind ensemble
Score
Item no.: 838238
for: Chamber ensemble
Score
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for: Woodwind ensemble
Score
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for: Flute, piano
Score, Parts
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: Voice, Recorder and Guitar
Buch
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for: Shakuhachi, Koto und Sangen
Conductor score
Item no.: 1545529
for: Accordion orchestra
Item no.: 221717
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 880501
for: Organ
Ensemble score
Item no.: 117059
for: Violin
Music score, CD
Item no.: 433652
for: Percussion ensemble
Study score
Item no.: 299461
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 299680
Score, Parts
Item no.: 869568
for: 2 trumpets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1626716
for: Violine, Viola, Violoncello, Kontrabass, Flöte, Klarinette, Fagott, Flöte, Horn, Oboe und Glockenspiel
Study score
Item no.: 891115
for: Accordion orchestra
Item no.: 222787
for: Accordion orchestra
Item no.: 221701
for: Accordion orchestra
Item no.: 222789
for: Diatonic accordion
Item no.: 260955
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 222190
for: Voice, piano
Vokalpartitur
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for: 2 pianos
Ensemble score
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for: 2 trumpets, organ
Score, Parts
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for: 3 Stimmen
Choir score
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for: Percussion Sextet
Score
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for: Ondes Martenot
Score
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for: Junior Choir
Piano reduction
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for: Timpani and Percussions
Study score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: Guitar
Score
Item no.: 412780
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 820477
for: Cello and Guitar
Score
Item no.: 333980
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 819391
Nine meditations
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1653411
for: Mixed Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 851938
for: Bassoon, viola, cello
Score, Parts
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for: Musikerziehung
Book
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for: Voice, piano
Score
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for: Viola, orchestra
Piano reduction
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for: Mixed Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 876680
for: Mixed Ensemble
Study score
Item no.: 875793
for: Bariton solo, Orgel
Singpartitur, Spielpartitur
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