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.
Klassik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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Klassik
for: Mixed Choir [SATB] and Percussion
Piano reduction
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for: String orchestra
Einzelstimme
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for: 4 brass instruments
Einzelstimme
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Solo for Cello
for: Soloist[s] and Orchestra
Score, Parts
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for the Birthday of Prince Charles
for: Blechbläser
Score
Item no.: 1545450
2. Nachts / 3. Begegnung
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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GeWV 110
for: String orchestra
Set of parts
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Klassik
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Score
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Sudien und Übungen
for: 11 Instruments
Score
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for: Violin, orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 891833
Violoncello, Klavier und Vibraphon
Partitur und Stimmen
for: KAMMERMUSIK SONSTIGEBESETZUNGEN TRIOS
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1546673
(Meerfahrt)
for: Voice (soprano), 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1557770
Choir score
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Item no.: 1582618
for: 3 guitars, cello, double bass
Set of parts
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Kantate zum Lob des Weines nach Texten verschiedener Dichter für Solostimme, Chor und Blechbläser oder Klavier
for: 1. Trompete
Stimme
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for: 4 Posaunen
Score, Parts
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Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 838
for: Strings and 2 Horns
Study score
Item no.: 902290
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 873
for: Soloists [SMezA] and Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 898295
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
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Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 943
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 891784
for: 15 Solo String Instruments
Score, Parts
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for: Timpano, Percussion and Strings
Piano reduction
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für Klavier
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Trombone (solo), wind ensembles
Score
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Tuba Concerto
for: Tuba, chamber orchestra
Score
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(Sinfonietta No. 4)
for: 9 Blechblasinstrumente
Set of parts
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for: Tuba, strings
Piano reduction, solo part
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for: Flute, Cello, Piano Chamber
Score, Parts
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Klassik
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Set of parts
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Klassik
Study score
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Klassik
Buch
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2. Spucken und Schlucken
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Piano
Music score
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Lateinamerikanische Tänze
for: Orchestra
Einzelstimme 3. Stimme in B
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PARTITUR
for: Orchestra
Study score
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1. Heiraten, Mama! "Liesel, hör zu!"
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Choir
Choir score
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Violoncello und Streichorchester
Item no.: 1592474
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Recorders [SAT]
Score, Parts
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For 2 B-Flat Trumpets and Organ
for: 2 trumpets, organ
Score, Parts
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for: Orchestra and Piano
Book
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Book
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