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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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for: Male choir
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Zyklus
aus "Carmina burana"
for: Male choir
Choir score
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Bearbeitung eines geselligen Chorliedes aus dem Barock von Thomas Selle
An die Musikanten
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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Bearbeitung eines geselligen Chorliedes aus dem Barock von Antonio Caldara
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for: Voice (medium), flute, piano
Item no.: 122242
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
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Eulenburg Studienpartituren
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Study score
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(nur für Studienzwecke)
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Study score
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Score, Parts
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for: Accordion
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Partitur
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Score
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for: Orchestra
Conductor score
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No. 1 Mitwelt
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Es ist ein altes Wort / Ein rechter MannGeWV 69
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"Fliegen wird die Taube"
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Set of parts
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Studien in moderner Spieltechnikop. 43
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Einzelstimme
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op. 89
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Worte des letzten Satzes von Miroslav Krleza (aus den Balladen des Peter Kerempuch)
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Piano reduction
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Volkslieder-Zyklus vom Mittelmeer, aus "Lied der Völker"
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aus dem Orff-Schulwerk
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1. Oft in der stillen NachtGeWV 57
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7. Retour de Melancolie "En verrai ge jamais"
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3. Le tourment caché "Plus penser que dire"
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1. Maienzeit bannet Leid
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"Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt"
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3. Römische Weinsprüche; "Pete me imple" (lat.)GeWV 53
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Chorstimme
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Ein Trauerspiel des Sophokles
Lyric book
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Komische Oper in 2 Akten nach einer Parabel aus "Der Scheik von Alessandria und seine Sklaven" von Wilhelm Hauff
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Score
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2. Christe, du Lamm Gottes - Passionsmotetteop. 37
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(liturg.)op. 15
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1. Vom Hausregiment "Es ist gewiss ein frommer Mann"op. 33
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Score
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