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.
Per Pianoforte
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 260297
Score
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Gegenwartsmusik
for: Chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 833219
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Score
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for: Unison Baritones/Medium Voice, 6 Flutes and Strings
Buch
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Klassik
for: Saxophone
Music score
Item no.: 835704
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
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(2019)
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Music score
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Klassik
for: Chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 837957
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Mixed ensemble
Score
Item no.: 833232
for: Clarinet and String Trio
Set of parts
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Version 2015
for: Violin, cello, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 638247
Per coro o quartetto vocale con campane
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 778236
Chamber Version
study score, archive copy
for: Violin, chamber orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 934916
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Book
Item no.: 1102965
for: Soprano, Bass Flute, Guitar, Harp
Set of parts
Item no.: 1174487
Per Pianoforte
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1548649
Per Harp Solista, 3 Voci Femminili Ad Libitum, 12 Strumenti E 3 Percussionisti (1990)
Score
Item no.: 259974
for: Clavicembalo O 2 Clavicembali
Score
Item no.: 259537
for: 5 instruments
Item no.: 171082
Klassik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 325529
Chemin musical en quinze stations Oratorio
Oratorio
for: Voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 858245
for: Streichtrio
Score, Parts
Item no.: 852328
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 899971
Instrumental Parts
for: Soprano and Tenor Soli, SATB, and Chamber Ensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 896348
for: Choir, orchestra
Score
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Klassik
for: Viola, orchestra
Score
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per orchestra
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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for: Voice (soprano), live electronics
Score
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Klassik
for: Orchestra Countertenor Chamber Group
Score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 1174380
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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1991-92
for: Voice (soprano), clarinet, viola, double bass, 2 percussions, piano
Score
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Solo-Konzert
for: Violin
Music score
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Solista
for: Cello or 2 Celli and Piano
Score
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Tome 7
Music lesson book
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Für zwei Keyboards / For two Keyboards
for: 2 Keyboards
Bücher-Set
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Un Tratto Per Clarinetto Basso
for: Clarinet
Score
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Klassik
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
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Klassik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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Gegenwartsmusik
for: Chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 833152
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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MusicWorks Grade 2
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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Opera in 4 acts
Study score
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String quartet based on Sonnets by William Shakespeare
for: 2 violins, viola, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 732994
"En noir et or"
for string quartet
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 685900
Klassik
Study score
Item no.: 1542330
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