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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.
Musiktheorie
for: Musikerziehung
Book
Item no.: 852615
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Buch
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Violoncello, Klavier und Percussion
Partitur
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Score
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Klassik
for: Saxophone, Cello, Orchestra
Score
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Inspiration Series
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Score, Parts
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For Two Antiphonal Trumpets
for: 2 trumpets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1626716
"Einen vergänglichen Tag lebt ich"
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751907
Partitura
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1548071
Klassik
for: Brass ensemble
Book
Item no.: 1194939
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 832814
Choir score
Item no.: 1176470
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Saxophone
Music score
Item no.: 832924
for: Wind Instruments and Percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1176848
(1989)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1018788
for: Mixed ensemble
Buch
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Item no.: 863912
for: Voice, instruments
Score
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Score
Item no.: 1542888
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
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Gegenwartsmusik
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Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 833174
Suite for Strings
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1148501
for: Mixed Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 851938
Kanon
for: Voice
Choir score
Item no.: 835889
Viola, Violoncello und Kontrabaß
Violoncello
for: KAMMERMUSIK STREICHINSTRUMENTE QUINTETTE
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for: Cello solo, violin, viola, cello, keyboard
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Single part Violin 2
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for: Organ
Ensemble score
Item no.: 873189
for: Children's choir, organ
Choir score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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for: Concert band
Study score
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Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1261
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
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- In Nomine -
for: 6 Spieler
Spielpartitur
Item no.: 1544564
to words by revolutionary poets of the late 19th - early 20th centuryop. 88
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1610871
for shakuhachi, koto and sangen
for: Shakuhachi, Koto und Sangen
Conductor score
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A Musical Portrait for Piano and Percussion
for: Klavier und Percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1624435
Klassik
Set of parts
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for viola
for: Viola
Music score
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For Two Pianos
for: 2 pianos
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for: Choral
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für Sopran, Violine und Klavier
Violine
for: Violin
Single part (Violin solo)
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and string quartet
score and parts
for: Clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello
Score, Parts
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(Friedrich von Schiller)
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Choir parts (Soprano, Alto)
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Geistliche Abendmusik
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Alt oder Bass solo, Orgel oder Cembalo und Streicher
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Item no.: 1546378
for: String Orchestra and opt.Violin or Viola and Piano
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for: Piano, orchestra
Piano reduction
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for: 2 trumpets, horn, 2 trombones, tuba
Score, Parts
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