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
Item no.: 623200
pour soprano, cornetto et orgue
for: Voice (soprano), cornett, organ
Organ score, solo part
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für Singstimme und Klavier
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
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op. 87
for: Cello solo, string orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
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op. 19c
for: Viola, piano
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for: Voice (tenor), piano
Piano reduction
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for: Piano
Single edition
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Orchestra
Study score
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for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), percussion, orchestra
Study score
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for: Children's Choir and Strings
Choir score
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for: Accordion
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Klarinette, Trompete & Klavier
for: Clarinet, trumpet, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 601138
for drum (djembe) and voice
for: Voice, djembé
Music score
Item no.: 576274
for: 2 GES (CH) ORG
Item no.: 227251
12 Kinderlieder mit Klavierbegleitungop. 7
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
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for: GES-M (BAR) ENSEMBLE
Study score
Item no.: 294971
for mixed choir (SATB) a cappella: string orchestra ad lib.
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) a cappella; Streichorchester ad libitum
Choir score
Item no.: 742440
Distinguished Choral Music
for: gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
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Toccata Fugue
for: Organ
Music score
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for: Klarinette in A, Violoncello und Klavier
Score, Parts
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for: Flute, piano
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for: Flute, clarinet (B-flat), bassoon, 2 violins, viola, cello (septet)
Score
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for: Accordion, piano
Score
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for: Trumpet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Viola
Score
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for: Mixed ensemble (6 voices)
Score
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for: Organ (solo), string orchestra
Score
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for: Orchestra
Study score
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for: Piano
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for: 2 Violinen, (Violine, VA), Streicher, SYNTHESIZER
Study score
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for: Percussion, piano
Score
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for: 2 flutes (duet)
Ensemble score
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for: 2 bassoons
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for: Percussion instruments
Score
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op. 18
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
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for: 2 Vibraphones
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for: 4 percussions, electronics
Set of parts
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
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for: Violin, viola
Score
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(Oversize)
for: Cello
Music score
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for: Accordion
Music score
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for: Clarinet
Music score (spiral binding)
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für Flöte und Violine
for: Flute, violin
2 Performance scores
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for: Oboe, bassoon, piano
Piano score, parts
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for: Bass Voice a Cappella
Book
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for: Oboe and other instruments
Score
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