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: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3
Item no.: 218320
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4, Bass instrument
Item no.: 220442
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4, Bass instrument, Electronium
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4 (Bass instrument)
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4, Bass instrument, Electronium
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Single part Accordion 2, 3, 4
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Single part Accordion 4, Bass instrument
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4
Item no.: 219397
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2, 3
Item no.: 219323
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2 b, 3
Item no.: 219287
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 433820
Single part Accordion 3, Percussion
Item no.: 220120
Single part Bass instrument 1
Item no.: 385984
Single part 2
Item no.: 386788
Single part (Accordion solo)
Item no.: 219365
Kantate über den 84. Psalm für vier Solostimmen (SSAB), gemischten Chor (SSATB) und Orchester
Pauken / Schlagzeug (1 Spieler)
for: 4 solo voices (SSAB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Timpani (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676853
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
Item no.: 219046
Heft 2
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 420369
Single part Flute
Item no.: 616595
for: Mandolin orchestra
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 558267
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Electronium
Item no.: 430346
for: Orchestra
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 784902
for: String orchestra
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 784683
for: String orchestra
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 784473
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for: gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB), Sopran solo und Orchester
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 791175
for: String orchestra, percussion
Single part Cello
Item no.: 783939
nach rumänischen Volksliedern
for: school orchestra
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 783757
for: String orchestra
Single part Cello
Item no.: 783628
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part bass
Item no.: 430347
Northumbrian Folksong
for: Kinderchor (Mez) und 3 Blockflöten (SSA)
Single part descant recorder 2
Item no.: 748839
for: Symphonic orchestra
Single part
Item no.: 305923
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 305691
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1
Item no.: 222171
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 372653
for: Trombone
Single part(n)
Item no.: 645187
Single part Bassoon
Item no.: 372644
for: Recorder ensemble (SATB)
Single part Tenor recorder
Item no.: 696876
for: 3 recorders, strings
Single part descant recorder 1
Item no.: 638460
for: Flute, string orchestra
Violin (orchestral part)
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for: Accordion
Single part(n)
Item no.: 212594
for: Accordion
Single part(n)
Item no.: 136725
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 409160
for: Chamber orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 300126
for: Chamber orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 300125
for: Chor einstimmig, Streicher und Klavier oder für Stimme und Klavier
Single part Cello
Item no.: 354542
for: 3 violins
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 127569
for: 3 violins
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 127568