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: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit 3 Trompeten und 2 Posaunen oder Klavier 4-händig
Single part Trombone 2
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Single part Percussion
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for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Alt oder Bass solo, Orgel oder Cembalo und Streicher
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 1582565
Single part
Item no.: 305880
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
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for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1657272
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 1557908
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Flute 1, 2 (orchestral part)
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Beziehungsweisen
Solo B: Flügelhorn in B, Trompete in C, Piccolo-Trompete in B (hoch)
for: 2 trumpets, orchestra
Solo part (C/B-flat)
Item no.: 1008815
for: Recorder [flute], cello, organ
2 single parts
Item no.: 1121027
Kantate über den 84. Psalm für vier Solostimmen (SSAB), gemischten Chor (SSATB) und Orchester
Trompete 3 in B
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Trumpet 3 (orchestral part)
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for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 137110
for: Symphonic orchestra
Single part Kettledrums
Item no.: 218324
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1
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Single part Accordion 2
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Single part Accordion 1
Item no.: 219359
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Single parts 1, 2 (Accordion)
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Single part Accordion 2
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Single part Accordion 1
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Electronium 1, 2
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4 (Bass instrument), Percussion
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single parts 1, 2 (Accordion)
Item no.: 219774
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4
Item no.: 220401
for: Accordion orchestra
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Single part Accordion 4, Bass instrument
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Single part Kettledrums
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2, 3
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Violin 2 (orchestral part)
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Single part Accordion 3, Electronium
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Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 425672
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4
Item no.: 127031
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4, Bass instrument
Item no.: 220525
Kantate zum 2. Weihnachtstag
Stuttgarter Telemann-Ausgaben - Urtext
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 226577
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 386073
Single part Bass instrument 1
Item no.: 386802
for: Bandoneon
Single part(n)
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for: 3 violins
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 127561
for: 3 violins
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 127557
for: Flute, string orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 649374
for: Diatonic accordion
Single part(n)
Item no.: 273327
for: gemischter Chor (STBar) und Instrumente
Single part Trombone 2
Item no.: 293579
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), orchestra
Single part Cello
Item no.: 1545205
for: String orchestra
Single part viola 2
Item no.: 1546077
for: Posaune, Streicher / Streichquartett
Single part(n)
Item no.: 445990
for: Recorder ensemble (SATB)
Single part Bass recorder
Item no.: 696879
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 387807
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