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: Concert band
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Streichquartett
Partitur und Stimmen
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1632773
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber ensemble
Piano reduction
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for: Male choir
Choir score
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Meditation über "O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf"
for: Choir, organ
Chorpartitur, Spielpartitur
Item no.: 196128
for: Organ
Ensemble score
Item no.: 196054
2. Morgen "Da ich verschlafen lag"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204895
Gloria in excelsis DeoGeWV 37
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204757
1. Heiraten, Mama! "Liesel, hör zu!"
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204671
für Viola und Orchester
for: Viola, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 310396
für Bläserquintett
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Study score
Item no.: 310366
für gem Chor u. Orgel
for: Several instruments
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Liederzyklus, für Mezzo, Sprecher, Bassklar. , Vc. , Celesta u. Vibraphon
for: GES-M (MEZZ) BASS-KLAR VC CEL VIB
Set of parts
Item no.: 307622
Ein Landsknecht sah ein Mägdlein stehn
for: Male choir
Score
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Kantate nach Psalmtexten, für Soli, Chor, Org. u. Schlz
for: Organ
Organ score
Item no.: 308133
for: Organ
Organ score
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für Chor, 6 Bläser oder Orgel
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
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for: Organ
Score
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für Singstimme und Klavier
for: Voice, piano
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exempla nova 460
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
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op. 94
for: Oboe, Violine und Viola
Study score
Item no.: 1539081
op. 92
for: Flöte und 2 Violinen
Study score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
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for: Bariton and Piano
Score
Item no.: 553927
for: Several instruments
Ensemble score
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Pour Piano
for: Piano
Music score
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pour deux pianos, percussion & orchestre
for: 2 Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 260794
for: String orchestra
Einzelstimme
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Spielmusik, für Blockflöten, Streicher und Gesang ad lib.
for: 3 BFL / 2 VL VA
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for tenor saxophone, piano and percussion
for: Tenor-Saxophon, Klavier und Schlagzeug
Ensemble score
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Score
for: 2 Violins, 2 Violas and 2 Cellos
Score
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Study Score
for: Wind and String Ensemble
Study score
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Score and Parts
for: Piano Quartet
Score, Parts
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Klassik
for: Cello
Score
Item no.: 992971
Klassik
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
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Sancti Hieronymi in clusa
for: Trumpet, organ
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Oper in einem Akt
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
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Ein Trauerspiel des Sophokles
for: Soli, Sprecher, Chor und Orchester
Lyric book
Item no.: 199299
Concerto scenico
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Lyric book
Item no.: 199288
Ein deutsches Märchen. Szenische Ballade in drei Teilen
Lyric book
Item no.: 199278
for: 2 Trompeten (B) und 2 Posaunen
Score, Parts
Item no.: 199114
for: String orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 111332
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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Kinetische Handlung in sechs Bildern nach Hans Henny Jahnn
for: Voices, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 103133
auf Texte der Johannes-Apokalypse und von Albrecht Dürer
Musik unserer Zeit
for: ORCH TAPE
Study score
Item no.: 103129
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Item no.: 103076
for: KLAR POS VC
Study score
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