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: Piano 4 hands
Score
Item no.: 667771
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Flute, piano
Score
Item no.: 382115
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 172755
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score (C), Parts
Item no.: 315296
from "Musica ricercata"
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 736318
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 279895
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 109228
Sul Ponte di Hiroshima
for: Sopran, Tenor und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 729573
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 176446
für vier Saxophone (SATBar)
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 732098
for: 3 or 4 Flutes
Score, Parts
Item no.: 101018
for: Tuba In C or Tenor Horn B-Flat and Piano
Book
Item no.: 267106
Seven poems by Philippe Jaccottet
for: Oboe, cor anglais [2 oboes/ 2 oboes d'amore/ 2 cors anglais]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 696547
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 661982
for: Percussion
Music score
Item no.: 664798
for piano solo
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 482936
for: 4 melodic instruments
Item no.: 565465
for: Voice (soprano), piano
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for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 339467
Second Sonata on Shakespearean Characters
for: Guitar
Music score
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for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 281579
for: Piano
Item no.: 379707
for: Flute
Score
Item no.: 382192
for: Violin, piano
Ensemble score
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for: Xylophone
Music score
Item no.: 206904
for: Trumpet, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Sopran solo
Score
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for: Orchestra
Study score
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for: 8 Cello's
Study score
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for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 683483
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 626493
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 272643
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 108868
for: 1–2 trumpets, piano
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 241436
for: 2 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 184113
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 108742
for: Organ
Solostimme
Item no.: 1626501
for: Voice (high), piano
Piano score, CD
Item no.: 587428
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Voice (soprano), bass clarinet
Music score
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for: Piano
Item no.: 353778
for organ
for: Organ
Music score
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for: Voice (tenor), piano
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for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction
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for: String orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 148559
Book
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