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: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 117650
for: Piano
Ensemble score
Item no.: 117597
Kammermusik auf einen Text von F. G. Klopstock für Sopran, Flöte, Violoncello, Schlagzeug und Celesta
for: Sopran solo, Flöte, Cello, Schlagzeug (Vibraphon, Röhrenglocken, Tamtam / Chau Gong (2)), Celesta
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 117572
2 Motetten für gemischten Chor
musica sacra nova
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 117267
for Organ
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 677680
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 666262
Hawkes Pocket Scores
HPS 1672
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 695658
Sammlung kurzer Klavierstücke
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 673602
for violin and portable casette recorder
for: Violin
Ensemble score
Item no.: 370748
Diabelli-Variationen für Klavier solo
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 768099
Klassik
for: 4 Mixed Voices
Book
Item no.: 1195664
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 430088
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 472489
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 145920
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 468491
Klassik
for: Flute, harp
Buch
Item no.: 271046
Musik Fuer Mandoline
for: Mandolin orchestra
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 194048
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 988600
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 988191
für gem Chor und Orchester
Klavierauszu (= Orgelstimme)
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG GEISTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 1616224
Gegenwartsmusik
for: 2 Synthesizers [Yamaha DX7]
Buch
Item no.: 631851
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Organ
Music score
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Gegenwartsmusik
for: Accordion solo, orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 578649
Klassik
for: Cello, harp
Buch
Item no.: 158872
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
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für Blechbläser
for: Brass band
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 381077
für Violine und Percussion
Gary Beswick gewidmet
for: Violine, 5 PERC
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 381067
für Singstimme und 5 Instrumente
for: GES FL KLAR VL VC SCHLAGZ
Study score
Item no.: 382231
G. J. Watumull gewidmet
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 381291
für Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette, Fagott und Horn
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Score, Set of parts
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for: Flute
Music score
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op. 12
for: Organ
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für Marimba solo
for: Marimba
Ensemble score
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für mittlere Singstimme und Klavier
for: Voice (medium), piano
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Clément Lenon gewidmet
for: EHorn, FAG
Ensemble score
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for: Violin
Music score
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Klavierfassung
Lamento mit einem Gedicht von Günter Grass für Gesang und Klavier
for: Voice, piano
Singpartitur
Item no.: 474330
for: Double bass, string orchestra
Score, Parts
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for: Horn, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1023599
op. 5a
for: für Gitarre
Item no.: 154524
for: für Streichquartett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 145416
for: für Klavier
Item no.: 144901
und Klavier
for: Violine und Klavier
Score, solo part
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Schriften zur Musik Jürg Baurs (Werkverzeichnis) (Catalog of works )
Book (Hardcover)
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for: Flute, 2 violins, viola, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 549906
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
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für Altsaxophon und Klavier (1987)
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: für Chor SATB/ SATB und 2 Orgeln
Chorpartitur
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