After the Second World War, there emerged a new generation of composers, who sought to stretch the boundaries of music history, and find new and exciting styles and forms. Browse our sheet music and scores, take a look at our Modern Classical Music, and explore the wide world of contemporary music with Stretta Music today!
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: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1012385
and string quartet
score and parts
for: Clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1632827
in 2 Movements
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 781845
A Musical Portrait for Piano and Percussion
for: Klavier und Percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1624435
Flöte, Fagott und Violoncello
Partitur und Stimmen
for: Flöte, Fagott und Violoncello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1624423
For Viola and Marimba
for: Viola und Marimbaphon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1624265
For Either Women, Men, Or Mixed Voices
for: 3 Stimmen
Choir score
Item no.: 1625623
Gegenwartsmusik
Study score
Item no.: 1622243
For Large Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1622087
for: 5 wind instruments
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 494157
GeWV 110
for: String orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1546297
for oboe solo
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 1341225
über ein ungarisches Lied, Blockflöten-Chor (Blfl. -Quartett) Klav. , Schlz.
for: BFL ENSEMBLE KLAV
Ensemble score
Item no.: 244392
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1136574
Hommage a Händel
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 659598
Klassik
for: Voice
Book
Item no.: 992775
for: Mixed Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 993103
Klassik
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 992927
for: Flute, Cello, Piano Chamber
Score, Parts
Item no.: 836029
Collection Nobuya Sugawa "Saxy Ever"
for: 4 Saxophone
Item no.: 1586358
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 832565
for: String orchestra, percussion
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 783941
for: Klavier und Streichorchester mit Flöte oder Violine
Single part Cello
Item no.: 784103
for: String orchestra
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 784767
Music for three Violins soloists or groups destined for the group-teaching and adapted to various methods
for: 3 violins
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 731334
for: 2 Holzbläser (Flöten, Alt-Blockflöten oder Flöte und Oboe) und Streichorchester
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 783821
for: String orchestra
Single part Double bass
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Kantate über den 84. Psalm für vier Solostimmen (SSAB), gemischten Chor (SSATB) und Orchester
Fagott
for: 4 solo voices (SSAB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Bassoon (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676842
for: String orchestra
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 783818
for: 3 violins
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 740592
Kantate über den 84. Psalm für vier Solostimmen (SSAB), gemischten Chor (SSATB) und Orchester
Kontrabass
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Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676859
Northumbrian Folksong
for: Kinderchor (Mez) und 3 Blockflöten (SSA)
Treble recorder (single part)
Item no.: 748840
for: String orchestra
Single part Viola
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2, 3, 4 (Bass instrument)
Item no.: 604611
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4 (Bass instrument)
Item no.: 292915
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3
Item no.: 222188
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2
Item no.: 218319
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
Item no.: 218859
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2, 3
Item no.: 220095
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4, Bass instrument
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3
Item no.: 219808
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part 1 (accordion solo)
Item no.: 219754
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1
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für Violine, Violoncello, u. gr. Orchester
for: Violin, cello
Single part
Item no.: 305852
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