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.
exempla nova 25
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Score
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Score
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The Original Edition
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Baroque and Classical Era
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for: Symphonic orchestra
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Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1239
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Study score
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für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier
Russische Musik der Moderne
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for: Organ
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Musik unserer Zeit
for: GES-M (MEZZ) 4 SCHLAGZ
Study score
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Russische Musik der Moderne
for: 2 violins, piano
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for string quartet (2004/2006)
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Score, Set of parts
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Music score
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for: Mandolin, piano
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Russische Musik der Moderne
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2 Performance scores
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Russische Musik der Moderne
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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Hommage à G. Kurtág
for: Violin, piano
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für Klavier
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ABRSM Cello Exam Pieces 2016-2019
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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pour une voix ou choeur a l'unisson et orgue ou harmonium
for: Voice [choir], organ [harmonium]
Score
Item no.: 107559
for: Organ
Music score
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for: Oboe, piano
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pour 11 instruments et sons de synthèse
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Score
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for: Viola
Music score
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for piano 4 hands
Edition Schott
op. 68
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Single edition
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exempla nova 133
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Score, Parts
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for Percussion solo
for: Percussion
Ensemble score
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Leningrad
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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exempla nova 400
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for: Mixed choir, piano
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) [4 voices (SATB)]
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Edition Schott
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para violoncello y piano
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Russische Musik der Moderne
Boosey and Hawkes Pocket Scores
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for: Organ
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for: 3 trumpets
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