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.
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Set of parts
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Music score
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Single edition
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for: Accordion orchestra
Set of parts
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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4. Wales: Gwenllian
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733397
"Dass Gott all die berate" (14. Jh.) / (Alter Spruch)
for: Frauen- oder Kinderchor (MezMezMez)
Choir score
Item no.: 733327
2. Lady's Lament - Frauenklage
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733263
for: Kinderchor (Mez) und 3 Blockflöten (SSA)
Einzelstimme
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for: Ob / Klar / Trp / Klav
Einzelstimme
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for: Ob / Klar / Trp / Klav
Set of parts
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for: Sopran- und Altblockflöte (Flöte), Klarinette, Streichquartett und Klavier
Set of parts
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for: Orchestra
Study score
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for: Kinderchor (SMez), Melodie-Instrumente und Schlagwerk
Single part Percussion
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for: String orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 354683
Kleine Kantate nach romantischen Texten
for: Sopran, Oboe, Bratsche und Violoncello
Stimmensatz Instrumentalstimmen
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3. Unmut "Mich ärgert was dem andern wohlgefällt"
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Choir score
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2. Notturno "In einer Nacht"
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Choir score
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Three Pieces
for: Organ
Music score
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"Du, Herr, bist der Begleiter meiner Wanderfahrt"
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Set of parts (Strings)
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Set of parts
Item no.: 1582546
for: String orchestra, percussion
Study score
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for: Voice (soprano), instruments
Score, Parts
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 298774
for: gemischter Chor (STBar) und Instrumente
Einzelstimme
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Einzelstimme
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for: Alt, Tenor und Bass mit Begleitung von 40 Instrumenten
Piano reduction
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Item no.: 288990
for: Oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon
Score, Parts
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for: Streicher und eine Sopran-Stimme oder Streicher allein
Study score
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for: Brass ensemble (7 voices)
Set of parts
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for: Sopran, Kammerchor (SATB) und 13 Instrumente
Piano reduction
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for: 11 Bläser und Schlagzeug
Set of parts
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for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
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for: Orchestra
Study score
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for: gemischter Chor, Sopran- und Bariton-Solo und Orchester
Choir score
Item no.: 758354
for: 3 Trompeten in C und Streichorchester
Solostimme Trompete I in C
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for: 4-stimmigen Geigenchor oder 4 Geigen allein
Einzelstimme Violine IV
Item no.: 784634
(Friedrich von Schiller)
for: gemischter Chor und Instrumente
Chorstimme Männerstimmen
Item no.: 784434
Geistliche Abendmusik
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Alt oder Bass solo, Orgel oder Cembalo und Streicher
Choir score
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Kantate nach zeitgenössischen Nonsensversen
for: Chor (Mez/Bar), Sprecher und variable Instrumente
Einzelstimme 3. Stimme in C
Item no.: 791150
Kantate nach zeitgenössischen Nonsensversen
for: Chor (Mez/Bar), Sprecher und variable Instrumente
Einzelstimme 2. Stimme in C
Item no.: 791148
"Damit Euer Gnaden"
for: Männerchor (TTTBBB), Solo (T) und 3 Sprecher
Chorstimme Bass I / II / III
Item no.: 791115
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