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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.
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 624177
for: gemischter Chor (SMezAB), Streicher und Klavier
Single part Viola
Item no.: 241738
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Solo (hoch) und Streicher; Blockflöte, Flöte, Oboe, Fagott und Schlagzeug ad libitum
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 474830
for: Violin, piano
Single part(n)
Item no.: 103095
for: Guitar
Single part(n)
Item no.: 103011
for: 2 trumpets, 2 trombones; tuba ad lib.
Single part Trombone 1
Item no.: 299783
Kantate über den 84. Psalm für vier Solostimmen (SSAB), gemischten Chor (SSATB) und Orchester
Viola
for: 4 solo voices (SSAB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676856
Kantate über den 84. Psalm für vier Solostimmen (SSAB), gemischten Chor (SSATB) und Orchester
Oboe 1
for: 4 solo voices (SSAB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Oboe 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676839
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 1557909
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, Electronium
Item no.: 219418
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 433822
Guitar (single part)
Item no.: 228507
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, Electronium
Item no.: 219549
for: Accordion orchestra
Single parts 1, 2 (Accordion)
Item no.: 219548
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
Item no.: 219496
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4
Item no.: 219491
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2, 3
Item no.: 219439
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
Item no.: 219428
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2, 3
Item no.: 219423
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
Item no.: 219422
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3
Item no.: 219357
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4, Bass instrument
Item no.: 219237
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
Item no.: 218963
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1, 2
Item no.: 218882
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2, 3
Item no.: 218868
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1
Item no.: 218688
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
Item no.: 220071
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2, 3
Item no.: 220190
Percussion (orchestral part)
Item no.: 127034
Klarinette solo
for: Clarinet
Single part
Item no.: 105878
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 147617
Single part Bass instrument
Item no.: 387290
7 Choralvorspiele für Orgel
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 420364
Akkordeonorchester
Akkordeon 2a
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2
Item no.: 340338
Kleine Partita für Orgel
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 305605
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1043717
for: String quartet [string orchestra]
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 385691
Single part
Item no.: 305880
Spielmusik für 3 Violinen zur solistischen oder chorischen Verwendung im Unterricht unter Berücksichtigung der verschiedenen Lehrmethoden.
for: 3 violins
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 740294
Music of Mourning
for: Viola (Violine, Violoncello) und Streichorchester
Single part Cello
Item no.: 748079
Music of Mourning
for: Viola (Violine, Violoncello) und Streichorchester
Single part Viola
Item no.: 748078
(Luk. 2, 1-20, Kürzinger)
for: Vorsänger und 2-stg. Kinderchor; 2 Instrumente (A-Bfl, V) ad libitum
Treble recorder (single part)
Item no.: 747237
Cantata No.1
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), 3 (2) Klaviere und Schlagzeug (5 Spieler)
Single part Percussion
Item no.: 725093
Moderne Tanzrhythmen zu 4 Stimmen
for: Orchester, Streichorchester oder Blockflötenchor mit Schlagwerk; Violoncello/Bass oder Gitarre/Bassgitarre ad libitum
Single part Percussion
Item no.: 748431
nach rumänischen Volksliedern
for: school orchestra
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 783759
nach rumänischen Volksliedern
for: school orchestra
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 783746
for: String orchestra
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 784471
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