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.
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Piano score, parts
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for solo television performance involving a large number of properties and a special single track tape
Score
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for: Viola
Music score
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Unpublished Works Collection 2
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Organ
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Music score
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for violin and double bass
for: Violin, double bass
Score, part
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per violino e pianoforte
for: Violin, piano
Ensemble score
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ABRSM Cello Exam Pieces 2016-2019
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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175 Stücke aus acht Jahrhunderten
for: Treble recorder
Music score (anthology)
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for: Voice
Score
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for soprano recorder
for: Descant recorder
Music score
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pour percussion solo
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Music score
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Unpublished Works Collection
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Piano
Music score
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Guitar Series
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Music score
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Original pour clarinette
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Music score
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for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Violin
Music score
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Klassik
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Music score
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Oper in 4 Akten (9 Bildern) – Urfassung 1932
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
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Nach Georges Bizet
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 108917
for: Cello
Music score
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Russische Klavierwerke für Kinder und Jugendliche
for: Piano
Item no.: 266111
(Suite Nr. 2 for Jazz Orchestra)
Zen-On Score
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Study score
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für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, parts
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from Song of Solomon
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Choir score
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für Violine solo
exempla nova 660
for: Violin
Music score
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für Violine solo
exempla nova 345
for: Violin
Music score
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for piano four hands
for: Piano 4 hands
Single edition
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für Bassklarinette
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Buch
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(With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles / Mit Pfeifen, Trommeln, Schilfgeigen)
Musik unserer Zeit
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Study score
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Prüfungsliteratur
for: Guitar
Music score
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for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Edition Schott
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for string quartet (2004/2006)
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Score, Set of parts
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Russische Musik der Moderne
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Piano score, solo part
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Music score
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The Romantic Period
for: Organ
Study book
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Music score
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for: Countertenor oder Alt und Orgel
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TV, Film, Musical und Show
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für Gesang und Klavier
aus "The Tempest", "Twelfth Night" und "Midsummer Night's Dream"
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Piano score
Item no.: 683724
Flexibility Exercises and Etudes
for: Trumpet
Music lesson book
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Theory – Theme – Development – Forms – Harmony
Music lesson book, playback-CD
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