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: Blockflöte (A), Harfe, Streicher
Study score
Item no.: 111331
for: Flöte, Klarinette und Streicher
Score
Item no.: 281779
for: Singstimme (S), ALT-Flöte / Blockflöte (S)/PICC-FL) Schlagzeug
Score
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for: Guitar, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 254777
for: 2 voices
Score
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for: Flute, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 380131
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 660887
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 779352
12 Melodies of the star signs
Werk Nr. 41 1/2
for: Several instruments
Score
Item no.: 676957
for: Chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 683491
for: Orchestra, audio tape
Score
Item no.: 170557
for: 3 Percussionists
Item no.: 345278
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 381999
for: Voice
Score
Item no.: 381694
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 108826
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Buch
Item no.: 315660
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 327301
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 584107
for: Trumpet
Music score
Item no.: 240730
Six pieces for grand orgue
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 674779
for: Soprano, Baritone and Instruments
Piano reduction
Item no.: 634311
for: Soprano, Guitar
Buch
Item no.: 935121
Small Organ Works and Cycles
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 617534
for: Piano, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1018786
for: Voice, 2 cellos
Score
Item no.: 777796
for: Violin
Sheet music
Item no.: 260207
for double bass solo
Peters Contemporary Library
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 682892
for: T-HACK AKK KLAV
Item no.: 367592
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 120937
for: Harp
Item no.: 120590
for: Trombone, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 114389
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
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for: Accordion
Music score
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for: Cello, piano
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for: Alto saxophone, piano
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for: Organ
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
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for: Brass ensemble, organ [piano/keyboard]
Score
Item no.: 667779
for: Viola (Violoncello, Klarinette) und Orchester
Study score
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for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 103093
for: für Sopran und Klavier
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for: für Orgel
Item no.: 113445
for: für 5 Darsteller oder 5 Schlagzeugspieler
Score
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for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 297548
solo for double bell trumpet
for: Trumpet
Music score
Item no.: 682906
for: Latin percussion, double bass
Score
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