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: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Study score
Item no.: 288469
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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for: Solo-Bratsche und größeres Kammerorchester
Piano reduction, solo part
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for: 2 violins
Ensemble score
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for: Organ, piano
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for: gemischter Chor (SAATB) mit Bariton solo
Choir score
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for: Voice (soprano), piano
Piano score
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for: 3 violins
Score, Parts
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for: 3 violins
Ensemble score
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for: Flute, oboe, bassoon
Score, Parts
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for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Marimba
Item no.: 111346
for: Soli, gemischter Chor, Kinderchor und Orchester
Lyric book
Item no.: 199307
Lyric book
Item no.: 199259
for: Oboe, chamber orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 355638
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203416
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
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for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Koloratursopran, Harfe und 4 Violoncelli
Piano reduction
Item no.: 352001
for: Oboe, violin, viola, cello
Set of parts
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for: Voice (tenor/soprano), piano
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for: Voice (tenor/soprano), piano
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204201
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
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for: Concert band
Score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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for: Bass flute
Item no.: 166142
Lyric book
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for: GES GEMEINDE CH
Choir score
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for: SATB Orchestra
Einzelstimme
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for: Cor Anglais [Oboe]
Score
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for: Voice
Einzelstimme
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
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for: Bass Clarinet Chamber Group Orchestra
Score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Oboe, violin, viola, cello
Book
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for: Oboe, piano
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for: Tenor Recorder and String Quartet
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for: Trumpet, orchestra
Score
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for: Piano 4 hands
Book
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