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.
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Score
Item no.: 380045
for Violoncello solo
Peters East German Library 1949-1990
for: Cello
Music score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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for: Singstimme (B), EHorn, Horn, Tuba, Viola, Schlagzeug
Score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: Voice, orchestra
Study score
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for: Violin, clarinet, piano
Score
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für Sopran und 2 Klaviere
for: Singstimme (S), 2 Klavier
Score
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for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 381110
Klassenmusizieren
for: Celtic harp
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für Piccolo-Flöte, Klarinette, Vibraphon und Klavier [mit click tracks]
for: Piccoloflöte Klarinette, Vibraphon, Klavier
Ensemble score
Item no.: 475586
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Contemporary
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 644458
Single part(n)
Item no.: 643625
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Score
Item no.: 745973
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 305607
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 383633
for: Organ
Ensemble score
Item no.: 117033
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1103649
Sovereign Series
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 873634
Konzertwerk
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1204765
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
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Klassik
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Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 411159
for instruments at pleasure
for: 4 Identically Tuned Instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 329318
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
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Der 1. Mai
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Study score
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CD
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for: Oboe, clarinet, bassoon
Score
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
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Harmony parts (complete winds)
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
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for: Voice (alto)
Item no.: 386883
for: SOPRAN TENOR
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Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
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Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
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Klassik
for: Horn, Trombone and Organ
Score, Parts
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Babette's Feast
for: Violin, viola, cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1177994
Klassik
for: Percussion and Orchestra
Score, Parts
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Klassik
for: Woodwind ensemble
Score, Parts
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Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
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Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Item no.: 120856
for: String orchestra
Score
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for: 2 flutes (duet)
Music score
Item no.: 268202
Sette Madrigali Su Testi di Cristopher Brennan Per Coro Misto
for: Mixed Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 832789
per archi
for: Strings
Score
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