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: String orchestra
Score
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for: Narrator, chamber orchestra
Score
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for: Oboe
Music score
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Score
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for: Flute, Harp and Strings
Set of parts
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Unterrichtsmaterial
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Violin, orchestra
Einzelstimme
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(Offenbarung 3, 14-21), Motette
for: gemischter Chor (SSAT/ATBB)
Choir score (Choir 1)
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Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 846
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: Double bass, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1137820
in memoriam Dmitri Schostakowitsch
for: Violine, Viola, Violoncello, Klavier, Campanelli, Schlagzeug (2 Spieler)
Score, Parts
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for: Clarinet, cello, piano
Ensemble score
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for violoncello and guitar quartet
for: 4 guitars, cello
Set of parts
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per Clarinetto e Pianoforteop. 55
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for: Chamber ensemble
Buch
Item no.: 1542507
for: Clarinet, Ensemble
Score
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für Sopran und Gitarre nach einem Gedicht von H. C. Artmann
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Score
Item no.: 1541740
aus "Kanon Pokajanen"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1019893
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani, organ
Set of parts
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Oratorische Szene nach dem Text der Vulgata
for: Alt, Tenor und Bass mit Begleitung von 40 Instrumenten
Piano reduction
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for: 2 KLAV 4MS MCH SCHLAGZ
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für Männerchor u. 2 Klaviere (od. Klavier zu 4 Händen), 3 Pauken (od 2 Pk 1 gr Trommel)
for: Male choir
Choir score
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op. 7
for: für Streichquartett
Taschenpartitur
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Anton Webern 1940)
Score
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Drei rumänische Volkslieder 2
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Score
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"Damit Euer Gnaden"
for: Männerchor (TTTBBB), Solo (T) und 3 Sprecher
Chorstimme Bass I / II / III
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7. Retour de Melancolie "En verrai ge jamais"
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for: Piano
Music score
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op. 16
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for: Piano
Music score
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Klassik
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for: Piano
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Klassik
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for: Chamber ensemble
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Pour Violon Et Percussion
for: Violin and Mallet Percussion
Buch
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aus "Kanon Pokajanen"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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Klassik
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Book
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Piano Concerto No. 4 2019
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Music score
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for: Percussion ensemble
Score, Parts
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for: Trombone and Orchestra
Score
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for: Orchestra
Score
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The Cold Trip I
for: Voice (medium), 4 guitars (quartet)
Score, Parts
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