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.
für Klarinette, 2 Violinen, Viola, Violoncello und Kontrabaß
for: Clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass (string quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 663410
for: Violin (solo), viola (solo), string orchestra
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 290017
(1940, rev. 1986)
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 655551
for: 2 violins
Ensemble score, solo parts
Item no.: 499293
for: Piano
Item no.: 113792
for: Piano
Score
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für 24 Instrumente
for: Chamber orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 103020
3 Stücke op. 8 Band 2
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 284593
(3e cycle)
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 270562
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: Violin, piano [harpsichord]
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 108915
Six pieces for grand orgue
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 674779
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 494782
per Violino, Viola Violoncello
for: Streichtrio
Score
Item no.: 389815
für Oboe solo
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 665212
for: Organ
Music score
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for: 2 harps
2 Performance scores
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du cycle 'Poética del laberinto' pour quatuor de saxophones
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score
Item no.: 857496
for: Voice (baritone), piano
Music score
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for: Voice (medium), piano
Piano score
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Volume 3
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Music lesson book
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Oper in drei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
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for: Frauenstimme
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for flute solo
for: Flute
Score
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for: 3 voices, 7 instrumentalists
Score
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Klassik
for: Cello
Music score
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for: Voice (soprano), piano
Piano reduction
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for: Mixed Choir, Violin and Organ
Study score
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Klassik
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
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for: Viola, electronics
Music score
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Messe
for: Choir
CD
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Der Raub der Lukrezia - Oper in 2 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
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Walton Choral
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Score, Parts
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Version für Mezzsopran oder Alt oder tieferer Tenor und Akkordinstrument
Werk Nr. 41 4/5
for: Voice (medium), piano
Score
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Loops for Edgar Froese für Erweitertes Klavier zu vier Händen und Zuspielung
for: Piano 4 hands
Buch
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Anton Webern - Luigi Nono - György Ligeti - Beat Furrer
Schriften der Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, 2
Book
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Rhapsodie nach einem Gedicht von Eduard Mörike op. 63
for: Oboe [violin], horn, piano (trio)
Piano score, parts
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Gegenwartsmusik
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 921934
für Flöte und Orchester
Boosey & Hawkes Archive Edition
for: Flute, orchestra
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 646651
for: für Klavier
Item no.: 1135292
(1990)
for: Voice, 2 cellos
Score
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für Blechbläserquartett
for: 2 trumpets, 2 trombones (brass quartet)
Score, Parts
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for: Piano, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1018786
Duo for flute and viola
for: Flute, viola
2 Performance scores
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für achtstimmigen Männerchor
Choral Music of Our Time
for: Male choir
Score
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for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for soprano and organ
for: Voice, organ
Ensemble score
Item no.: 190032
for Solo Double Bass
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 768083
12 leichte und mittelschwere Stücke für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 624725
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