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: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
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Fantasia Nocturna
Edition Schott
for: Piano
Music score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 663496
Über das (Nicht-)Verstehen von Neuer Musik
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung, Darmstadt 52
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 607379
Suite in vier Sätzen
for: Accordion
Item no.: 407459
Russische Musik der Moderne
Erstausgabe
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 108956
for: Percussion Quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 865471
or the Silbermann organ in the St. Georgenkirche Rötha
Organova 15
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 762542
for: 4 string instruments
Music score
Item no.: 885388
for: String orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 884424
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 884203
for: String orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 882755
for: Clarinet, cello
Music score
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for: String orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 880618
for: Voice
Buch
Item no.: 879754
for: String orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 879099
for: Marimba, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Lk. 18, 9-14
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Choir score
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for: Sopran-Instrument (Blockflöte, Piccolo, Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette, Violine oder Trompete) und Klavier
Item no.: 244641
from the Second Service
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920358
für großes Blasorchesterop. 67
for: Concert band
Stimmensatz
Item no.: 429301
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 223477
for: Treble recorder
Score
Item no.: 279158
Ergänzungsstimme ad lib.
beiliegendes Extraheft für 2. Instrument
for: 1–2 accordions
Music score
Item no.: 389340
Arvo Pärts Vertonung des Te Deum, welches liturgisch zu den ältesten überlieferten musikalischen Äußerungen der christlichen Zeit gehört.
for: 3 choirs (SSAA, SATB, TTBB), string orchestra, prepared piano, tape
Choir score
Item no.: 627252
op. 6
for: für Orgel
Item no.: 182142
Main Theme from James Bond
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Violin, cello
Ensemble score
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Klassik
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Book
Item no.: 819978
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for: Oboe
Score
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aus: Die Stücke der Windrose für Salonorchester
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Score
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for: Organ
Item no.: 382399
für Violine
Irvine Arditti gewidmet
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Music score
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für 3 Klaviere
for: Piano
Item no.: 382019
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Score
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for: GES VC KLAV
Score
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for Flute, Horn, Trumpet, Amplified Guitar, Harp, Piano and Contra Bass
for: Mixed ensemble
Score
Item no.: 381972
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Ensemble score
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für variable Besetzung
Score
Item no.: 644594
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 160583
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 662969
Scores
for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 660863
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for: Flute, organ
Score, solo part
Item no.: 174338
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for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Set of parts
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for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), piano
Item no.: 120945
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