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.
Klassik
for: Vocal, Piano and String Quartet
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1087177
for: Flute, piano
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Pour Violon, Violoncelle & Piano
for: Mixed Ensemble
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Score and Parts
for: 4 clarinets
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Study score
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Score
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Score
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Southern Music
for: Horn, piano
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Item no.: 226958
String Solo
for: Violin, piano
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Item no.: 315786
for: Cello [viola], piano
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Item no.: 964094
Score
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 964951
for: Brass band
Set of parts
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Hommage à Krzysztof Penderecki
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
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for: Singstimme (S), Flöte, Klarinette, Bassklarinette, Violine, Violoncello Schlagzeug, Klavier
Score
Item no.: 473843
for: Brass ensemble (8 voices)
Set of parts
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per violino ed orchestra
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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for: 11 Bläser und Schlagzeug
Score
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for: Flute, cello, piano
Ensemble score
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for: HRN VC
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for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 584681
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1545188
Sextett
for: KLAR-A 5 STR
Set of parts
Item no.: 103106
for: Klarinette (B), Fagott, Trompete (F), Horn (F), Tenorposaune und Klavier
Score, Parts
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for: 2 guitars
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Sweet disorder and the carefully careless
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1654
for: Piano, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 688613
Oper in einem Akt
Piano reduction
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Suite
for: Orchestra
Stimmensatz
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for: FL KLAR VL VC KLAV SCHLAGZ
Score
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Hawkes Pocket Scores
for: Piano, orchestra
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for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
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nach Texten von Lord Byron
for: Bariton und Streichquartett
Study score
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for: A-SAX HRN
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for piano
for: Piano
Item no.: 1544519
Petrulus hirrutusop. 49
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Score
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for: Organ, orchestra
Score
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for: Violoncello, MARIMBA PERC
2 Scores
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for: Flute, viola, harp
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for: HRN BAS 2 VL VA VC
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für großes Orchester
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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in vier Sätzen für großes Orchester
for: Orchestra
Study score
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for: POS AKK SCHLAGZ
Score
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Oper
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Piano reduction
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Neufassung 1994
for: 2 orchestras
Study score
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Befragung eines musikhistorischen Topos
Mit 76 Grafiken und Notenbeispielen
KlangZeiten 5
Book (softcover)
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für Violoncello und Orchester
for: Cello, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
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Score
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Ciacona per violino concertante ed orchestra da camera
for: Violin, chamber orchestra
Study score
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