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.
Gegenwartsmusik
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 923043
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Percussion ensemble (6 players)
Buch
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Gegenwartsmusik
for: Vocal, SATB and Orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 922346
Quatuor à cordes n°1
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 922344
Gegenwartsmusik
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
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Gegenwartsmusik
for: Viola
Music score
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Gegenwartsmusik
for: SATB, Clavecimbal and Percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 921871
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Flute, cello, piano
Score, Parts
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Gegenwartsmusik
for: 2 Violas and Orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 922925
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Violin and Vibraphone
Buch
Item no.: 922656
Gegenwartsmusik
for: 3 Violas
Buch
Item no.: 922136
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Oboe, Viola, Double Bass and Piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 921600
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Carillon
Buch
Item no.: 921182
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Clarinet, Piano, Violin and Cello
Score, Parts
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Gegenwartsmusik
for: Bläserquintett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 658215
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Choir
Piano reduction
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for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 302998
for: Voice (baritone), piano
Book
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für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
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Drama mit Musikop. 18
for: 2 Klaviere zu 4 Händen
Item no.: 290250
exempla nova 362
for: Viola, (Violine) gemischter Chor ORCH
Study score
Item no.: 479163
für Trompete und Klavier
for: Trumpet, piano
Item no.: 382547
Harry Halbreich gewidmet
for: 6 voices (SMezATBarB), chamber orchestra
Conductor score
Item no.: 382208
for: Mixed ensemble (11 parts)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 381982
op. 20
for: für hohen Sopran, Celesta, Harmonium und Harfe
Klavierauszug
Item no.: 291425
für Viola und Klavier
for: Viola, piano
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1200256
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba
Score, part
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ohne den verschollenen ersten Satz
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, part
Item no.: 224546
für Trompete und Klavier
for: Trumpet, piano
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für Carillon
for: Glockenspiel
Ensemble score
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für Bläserorchester
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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für Violoncello
for: Cello
Music score
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Gegenwartsmusik
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Music score
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for: Organ
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Male choir
Choir score
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for: für 3 Klarinetten, Violoncello und Klavier
Score, Parts
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Originalfassung
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 442713
for: Flute
Item no.: 200201
aus der Kantate "Der weise Mann"
for: Flute [alto flute]
Item no.: 200179
Wycinanki
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 297546
for: Harp
Music score
Item no.: 481876
Repertoire der Blasinstrumente 68
for: Flute, piano
Ensemble score, solo part
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Serenade Nr. 4
for: 2 Oboen Violine, Viola, Streicher, Klavier
Set of parts
Item no.: 114047
(1980)
for: Clarinet, trombone, cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 635550
Study Score
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello
Set of parts
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for: für Sopran und 8 Violoncelli
Study score
Item no.: 462066
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