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.
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Set of parts
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for: Soprano Voice, Clarinet and String Quartet
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for: Chamber ensemble
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
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Score
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for: Guitar
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2 Scores, single part
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for: Soprano and Double Bass
Buch
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14th study for alto saxophone and bass clarinet (or tenor saxophone)
for: Alto saxophone, bassclarinet [tenor saxophone]
2 Scores for playing, Playback-CD
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for: Classical guitar
Music score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Soloists, Mixed Choir [SATB] and Orchestra
Score
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for: Tenor and 14 Instruments
Study score
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for: Orchestra
Study score (facsimile)
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for: Women's choir (SSAA), string quartet, piano
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Score
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for: Horn, piano
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1. England: Early one morning
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Chorpartitur mit untergelegtem Klavierauszug
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for: gemischter Chor (SATB) a cappella
Choir score with piano accompaniment
Item no.: 743883
A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now
for: Sprechstimme und Ensemble
Study score (facsimile)
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Cantata for soprano, contralto and instrumental ensemble
for: Sopran, Alt und 8 Instrumente
Score
Item no.: 734746
"When all the world is young, lad"
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Klavierbegleitung
Score
Item no.: 730681
An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues
for: Orchestra
Study score (facsimile)
Item no.: 793949
Text by James Joyce
for: Singstimme (Sopran) und 2 Flöten
Spielpartitur Faksimile-Edition
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Distinguished Choral Music
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Score
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for: Voice, Keyboard, Medium Voice
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Lyric book
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for: für Sopran, Mezzosopran und Röhrenglocken
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Piano Exercises for Contemporary Music
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Lyric book
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Book (Hardcover)
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for: Narrator, piano
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
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for: Accordion and Wind Quintet
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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for: Tenor und Orchester
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Score
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for: Singstimme (mittel) und Ensemble
Set of parts
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Three poems for Soprano and Piano
for: Voice (soprano), piano
2 Scores
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A Requiem "for those we love"
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
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Piano reduction
Item no.: 355776
for: Kinderchor (Mez) und 3 Blockflöten (SSA)
Score
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Lachenmann Perspectives 4
DVD series about Helmut Lachenmann’s orchestral works
DVD (learning video)
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