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: Organ
Music score
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for: Trombone, piano
Ensemble score
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for: Soloists, Choir, String Quartet, Piano [4-Händig] and Percussion
Piano reduction
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for: Percussion
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für Klavier, Cymbal und Elektronik
for: TAPE CYMBAL KLAV
Score, Parts
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for: Percussion
Score
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for: Percussion
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8 Pieces for Organ
for: Organ
Music score
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for orchestra
Facsimile printing from the manuscript by the composer
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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for: Piano 4 hands
Book
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for: Alto Saxophone, Electronics
Music score, CD
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for: 2 trumpets
Set of parts
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for: Oboe, clarinet, bassoon
Score, Set of parts
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for: Clarinet
Music score
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für Cello solo
for: Cello
Music score
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for: 2 Violins, Viola and 2 Cellos
Score
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for: Horn or Cello and Piano
Buch
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for flute and piano
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Guitar
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for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
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for: Harpsichord, percussion
Score
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for: Mixed Ensemble
Score
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for: Violin, piano
Score
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for: Clarinet and Various Instruments
Score
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for Clarinet, Accordion, Bass and Piano
Peters Contemporary Library
for: Chamber ensemble
Score
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for solo piano
for: Piano
Music score
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for: für Oboe und Klavier
Piano reduction
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for: für Chor SATB und 2 Vibraphone
Score
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for: Frauenstimme und Klavier
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for: für Trompete (in B oder C) und Klavier
Piano reduction
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for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Studienpartitur
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Gegenwartsmusik
for: Clarinet
Music score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Study score
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for: Flute
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for: Flute
Score
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for: Flötenquartett
Score, Parts
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
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for: Clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello
Set of parts (4)
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for: Clarinet (B-flat), electric guitar, cello
3 Performance scores
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for: Guitar
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for: Accordion
Music score
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for: 2 pianos
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for: Cello, piano
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Five pieces from the CD "Stone Rose"
for: Piano
Music score
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