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.
Study for Oboe Solo
for: Oboe
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1618758
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 921568
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 726365
for: Piano
Music score
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Concert Series Organ
for: Organ
Music score (spiral binding)
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Gegenwartsmusik
for: Orchestra
Score
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Three Children's Choruses
Három gyermekkar
for: Children's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850680
für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor, Schlagzeug und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), percussion, organ
Score
Item no.: 1654760
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Baritone saxophone
Score
Item no.: 1161346
for: Children's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822772
for: SATB, Chamber Ensemble/Brass Ensemble, Percussion and Organ
Einzelstimme
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 690077
op.46
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 683623
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1037911
Gegenwartsmusik
for: 4 Choirs
Book
Item no.: 984359
Klassik
for: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn
Set of parts
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Toccata, Adagio e Fuga per quartetto di clarinetti
for: 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 775397
Four Studies Of 20th-Century Techniques, for Solo Violin
for: Violin
Solostimme
Item no.: 1618466
Edition Schott
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 726554
Pour 9 musiciens spatialisés
for: Flexible Wind Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1542258
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 745292
for: Chamber ensemble
Score, Parts
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String Quartet Full Score
for: 2-part Treble Voice, Piano [or Brass Quartet or string quartet]
Score
Item no.: 1037447
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 922085
Geistliche Musik
for: Unison Voice SATB Organ Accompaniment
Book
Item no.: 897649
für Saxophonquartett 1998
for: 4 Saxophones [SATBar]
Set of parts
Item no.: 1541708
Klassik
for: Oboe, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 839775
Musiktheater
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1541998
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822805
nach Hans Neusiedler (1536)
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 727013
Cycle
for: Violine und Männerchor
Choir score
Item no.: 794297
Dream Tableau for Guitar
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 723179
for Solo Cello
for: Cello
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1620883
Two pieces based on Hungarian folk texts
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746912
Poly-Werk für Oboe und Orchester, darin installiert "Gorgoneion" für Oboe-solo (1990), "Die Schlangen der Medusa" für Klarinetten (1991), "Pegasos" für Cembalo und "Stheno und Euryale" für Harfe (1992)
for: Oboe solo (Englischhorn solo), Orchester
Study score
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in einem Satz und fünf Abschnitten
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 869939
for: Cello
Ensemble score
Item no.: 877778
The Bohuslav Martinu Complete Edition II/1/4
for: Orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 639252
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 880381
for: Two-Part Treble Voices [Children] and Piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1040993
und Orgel
for: Sopran-Saxophon und Orgel
Score, solo part
Item no.: 1199470
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1147179
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Score
Item no.: 1148545
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1148936
Klassik
for: Bass Voice, SATB and Organ
Book
Item no.: 897179
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Soprano and Cornet
Score
Item no.: 920990
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Wind Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1542386
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