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: 4 guitars (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 680602
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 624725
for: Piano
Ensemble score
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Suite for orchestra arranged for two pianos
The Virtuoso Piano Transcription Series
Two copies required for performance
for: 2 pianos
Ensemble score
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for: Clarinet, orchestra
Piano reduction
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für Akkordeon solo
for: Accordion
Music score
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for: Women's choir [children's choir] (3 voices), organ
Score
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for: Orchestra
Study score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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for: Flute
Music score
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for: Recorder (sopranino), piano
Music score
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for: Oboe, violin, viola, cello
Study score
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for: Piano
Item no.: 656876
for: Flute, viola
2 Performance scores
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for: Voice (bass), piano
Music score
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for: Cello, orchestra
Score (spiral binding)
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for: Mezzo / Baritone Voice, Piano Accompaniment
Book
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for: Choir
Score
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for: Piano
Score
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for: Oboe and other instruments
Score
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for: Violin
Score
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for: Trumpet
Score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Harpsichord
Item no.: 352896
solo for double bell trumpet
for: Trumpet
Music score
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for: Piano
Score
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for Solo Double Bass
for: Double bass
Music score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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for: Cello
Music score
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for: Violin, piano [harpsichord]
Piano score, solo part
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for: Clarinet
Music score
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for: Chamber orchestra
Study score
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for: Mallet Percussion, Voices and Organ
Study score
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for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: 13 Instrumentalisten
Study score
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for: 3 Percussionists
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for: für 2 Frauenstimmen und Violoncello
Score, Parts
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Suite für Flöte und Harfe (oder Klavier)
Rafnis Bancoc gewidmet
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for: Orchestra, audio tape
Score
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for: Trombone, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
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for: Clarinet, piano
Score
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Textbuch/Libretto
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Set of parts
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for: Voice (medium), piano
Score
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for: Classical guitar
Music score
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