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: Voice (tenor), orchestra
Piano reduction
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HPS 1299
Hawkes Pocket Scores
for: 2 pianos, percussion
Study score
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for: 2 pianos
Music score
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for: HBL SCHLAGZ KLAV
Study score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: 2 Sprecher, Bass-Solo und Orchester
Study score
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
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for: Clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello
Score, solo part
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for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: 5 Paar gestimmte Holzstäbe (Claves) oder 5 elektrische Gitarren
Ensemble score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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for: Orchestra
Studienpartitur
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for: Flute
Music score
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for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 108813
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 225412
for: Bass clarinet
Music score
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Flautario
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for: Soprano or Tenor Saxophone
Book
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for: Kettledrum
Buch
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: Violin, string orchestra
Score
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Corrected Reprint of the First Edition
for: Voice, piano
Music score
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from: Li-Na im Garten
for: Violin
Music score
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for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
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for: GES 2 KLAV
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for: Flute, percussion, piano
Score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: Cello, live electronics
Music score
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for: Flute
Music score
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for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 471822
32 Duette zur Übung auf Altblockflöten in allen Tonarten
Haslinger Blockflöten–Reihe
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Ensemble score
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for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
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for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), violin [cello]
Score
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for: Women's Choir [SSAA]
Choir score
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Klavierstück für Paul Gulda
for: Piano
Single edition
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for: Piano
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Spielpartitur, Stimmensatz
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for: Horn, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Score
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for: Guitar and Orchestra
Score
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for: Guitar or Lute
Score
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for: Flute and Other Instruments
Score
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for: Percussion
Music score
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