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.
Suite (1919)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 673593
for: Recorder
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for: Piano 4 hands
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for: Piano
Item no.: 112915
for: Guitar
Music score
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for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: Cello
Music score
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for: Organ
Score
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for: Viola
Music score
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for: Wind ensemble, percussion, piano
Study score
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for: Trumpet (B-flat) [cornet], piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Saxophone
Music score
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for: variable Besetzung
Spielpartitur
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 137572
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 481722
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 381843
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 238429
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 197962
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 695465
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 296223
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Violin, piano
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for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
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for: für Gesang und Klavier
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for: Horn
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for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 198254
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 311232
for: für Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette, Horn und Fagott
Set of parts
Item no.: 289473
from "Suite for Variety Orchestra" for recorder orchestra
for: Recorder ensemble
Score (with parts to print yourself)
Item no.: 695691
for: Harp
Item no.: 380961
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Flute, piano
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for: Several instruments
Score
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for: Voice (mezzo-soprano)
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 771221
for: Violin, cello
Set of parts
Item no.: 107279
Revised Edition
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 108793
for: Trumpet
Study score
Item no.: 157822
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Voice (baritone), trombone, tuba
Score (facsimile)
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Ein Werk nach Goethes Faust
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1209815
d’après le groupe de tableaux de M. Denis
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1015198
für Violine solo
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 655980
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