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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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Single part Accordion 4
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Single parts 1, 2 a (Accordion)
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Single part Accordion 3, Electronium
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Single part Accordion 1
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Single parts 1, 2 (Accordion)
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Single part Accordion 4, Bass instrument, Electronium, Percussion
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Single part Accordion 2, 3
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Violin 2 (orchestral part)
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Single part (Viola solo)
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Violin 1 (orchestral part)
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Single part Accordion 4, Bass instrument
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Single part Accordion 3, 4
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Violin 1 (orchestral part)
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Kammeroratorium nach Texten der Hl. Schrift, für Alt, Bar u. 11 Instr. u. Orgelpositiv
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eine aleatorische Improvisation
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Single part Trumpet
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Single part
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Single part Organ
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Single part Accordion 1
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Single part Electronium
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Der versiegelte Engel
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Music for three Violins soloists or groups destined for the group-teaching and adapted to various methods
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Single part Violin 2
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Music of Mourning
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(liturgisch)
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Single part Double bass
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Kantate nach zeitgenössischen Nonsensversen
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Guitar (single part)
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for: Orchestra
Single part Flute 2
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Spielmusik für drei Violinen zur solistischen oder chorischen Verwendung im Unterricht unter Berücksichtigung verschiedener Lehrmethoden
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Kantate
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Single part Cello/Double bass
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for: 4 brass instruments
Part 1 in C
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Single part Violin 2
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Violin 2 (orchestral part)
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Single part Violin 1
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Single part Double bass
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from the musical fairytale "Pollicino"
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Single part Kettledrum
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Double bass (orchestral part)
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Single part Cello/Double bass
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Single part Viola
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for: 3 violins
Single part Violin 1
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Single part (Violin solo)
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