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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.
(Dragomirna)
for: Mandolin orchestra
Single part Mandolin 2
Item no.: 1651847
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 624000
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1658621
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985103
für gemischten Chor
Das Musikblatt
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1660187
Für gem Chor (SABar) ud Orgel
Partitur und Orgelstimme separat erhätlich
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 634572
for: BL CH 3
Item no.: 1668625
for: Narrator, Children's choir (1-2 parts), mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ; the parish ad lib.
Viola, cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1653593
for: BL CH 2
Item no.: 1668863
Ruf im Advent und Erhebet eure Häupter
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 119242
for: BL CH 1
Item no.: 1658697
für 1-2stimmigen Chor, Orgel, Gitarre ad libitum, Blockflöten
for: Choir (1-2 parts), 2 recorders, organ; guitar ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 182005
Hommage à Lajos Bárdos
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850365
6. Minerva "Rogito num tumeat bucca"
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668177
7. Tityrus "Amarylli, strepit"
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668347
5. Echo "Imitari melicos docta modos"
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1654031
"Gewaltig endet so das Jahr"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660485
Triptychon
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1656939
4. Midas "Criticos artis inertes superus"
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1654440
für Sprecher, Soli, Kinderchor und kleines Orchester
Für Kinder ab 8 Jahren geeignet.
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 1660026
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913123
Choral
for: Mixed Choir, Tenor Saxophone improvisation and piano or Soprano Saxophone/Trumpet/Flugelhorn/Alto Saxophone
Score
Item no.: 636780
Kantate für Frauenchor, Flöte, Harfe und Streicher
dem Ueno Gakuen College gewidmet, Englisch / Japanisch
for: FCH FL HA STR
Score
Item no.: 1661311
Frauenchor und 2 Klaviere
for: Women's choir a cappella
Piano score
Item no.: 642138
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 493521
Walton Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 555998
for male chorus a cappella
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 624699
Geh unter, schöne Sonne / Wenn schlechte Leute zanken
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668152
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1655153
Serie: Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA), string orchestra, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 633320
after Kleyner yosem
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1610621
for Men's voices, Tenor solo and Piano
for: Soloist (tenor), male choir (TTBarB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1654178
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 684743
Walton Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 682188
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; string quartet ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 684497
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), oboe, piano
Score, solo part
Item no.: 1343388
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; string quartet ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 682190
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 619536
Avec accompagnement d'orgue ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 174759
SSAATTBB Chorus a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 586731
Mit Klavierstimme zu Übungszwecken
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 620065
Walton Choral
for: Women's Choir [SSAA]
Choir score
Item no.: 765807
extrait n. 2 de « Sept Chansons »
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 346079
Anthem (from Sunrise Mass)
for mixed chorus (strings ad lib)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; string quartet ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 634034
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087066
from Song of Solomon
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695749
Det hev ei Rose sprunge (Es ist ein Ros entsprungen)
für gemischten Chor mit Solo-Sopran (oder Chorsolisten)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 670888
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985343
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