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.
The Original Edition
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Violin
Music score
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Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell with narrator ad lib.
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 606
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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61 Songs
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
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for: Clarinet, piano
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Klassik
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Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, string quartet
Score, Parts
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for: Countertenor oder Alt und Orgel
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Strategies and structures in new music from 1900-present
Book (softcover)
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for: Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and French Horn
Score, Parts
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Petite cantate de chambre pour 6 voix mixtes ou chœur a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) [6 voices] a cappella
Choir score
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Entstanden zwischen 1965 und 1970 für verschiedene Schauspiel- und Zeichentrickfilme
in estnischen Kinderzimmern ein Klassiker
for: Children's choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
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Oper in drei Akten und zwölf Bildern
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Piano reduction
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Music for Strings
for: Cello
Music score
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for: Voice, piano
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from 'The Gadfly'
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Music score
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Saxophone Mib Seul
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Single edition
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for: Recorder
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Klassik
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Score
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für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
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Choir score
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for soprano and piano
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Messe
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CD
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or viola and electronic
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Music score
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Words by Jean de Brunhoff.
for: Narrator, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Piano
Music score
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Eight medieval lyrics
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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6 pièces pour petite (ou grande) harpe
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Music score
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61 Songs
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Score
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for: Tuba
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New Album for the Young
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The Walsh Collection
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Music score
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for: Frauenstimme
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Oper in 3 Akten
Libretto vom Komponisten nach "The Devils of Loudun" von Aldous Huxley
in der Dramatisierung von John Whiting
unter Benutzung der deutschen Übertragung des Dramas von Erich Fried
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Study score
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for: 2 pianos
Music score
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TV, Film, Musical und Show
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Klassik
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for two voices (SS) and piano
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Score
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Hymnen und Choräle
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Klassik
for: Clarinet, piano
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for female voice and piano
after poems from Kazimiera Illakowicz
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
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Serie: Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA), string orchestra, piano
Piano reduction
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The Masterworks Library
for: Voice, chamber orchestra
Study score
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Oper in 3 Akten op. 64
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 734
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
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CD-ROM (dt/en)
CD-ROM
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for: Voice (baritone), piano
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