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.
Thème et variations
for: Cello
Sheet music
Item no.: 833660
Item no.: 615546
for: 4 recorders (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 625706
for: Clarinet, bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1270879
d'après les textes sacrés
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 277950
für Oboe und Klavier
for: Oboe, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 377049
Zwölftonwerk Heft Nr.2op. 15/2
for: für Klavier
Item no.: 112873
Arrangement for two Violas
(of "Duetti" for two Violins)
for: 2 violas
Ensemble score
Item no.: 679812
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 373790
for: Accordion
Item no.: 260954
Pantomimischer Tanz nach einem Gedicht von Manuel Machado
für Kammerorchester
for: Chamber orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 103048
für Klarinette und Klavier
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 664149
for: für Klarinette und Streichquartett
Partitur
Item no.: 208112
This work was commissioned by Kuhmo Chamber Festival and was first performed by Kari Kriikku and the Jean Sibelius Quartet in Kuhmo (Finland) on July 16, 1992.
for: Clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello
Set of parts
Item no.: 141158
for: Cello, double bass
Score, Parts
Item no.: 798058
Book
Item no.: 227297
for: Flute, alto saxophone
Ensemble score
Item no.: 299347
aus Streichquartett II fis-Mollop. 10
for: für Gesang und Klavier
Piano reduction
Item no.: 140181
for: für Kammerorchester
Studienpartitur
Item no.: 147359
für Altblockflöte solo
for: Recorder
Music score
Item no.: 674925
aus Suite 2 für Jazz Orchester
for: Flute, trumpet, piano
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 601134
(Urtext)
for: Piano
Item no.: 562648
op. 7/1
for: für Violine und Violoncello
Item no.: 124442
for: Alto Saxophone and Orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 667326
Piano reduction
Item no.: 559893
for: Voice (alto), piano
[deutsch, russisch]
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Study score
Item no.: 557282
for: Piano
Item no.: 265605
for: 3 solo voices [soprano, counter tenor [alto], tenor), violin, viola, cello
Set of parts
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Edition Schott
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 750225
for: Violin
Item no.: 634124
from "Three Pieces in Old Style"
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Single edition
Item no.: 1209364
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 724575
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 351719
for: Mandoline, Gitarre und Harfe
Score, Parts
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for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Score, Parts
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for: Piano
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for: Violin, cello
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for: 2 treble recorders (duet)
Ensemble score
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for: Trompete in C und Klavier
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for: Voice, guitar
JAP
Item no.: 633908
for clarinet, violin and piano
for: Violin, clarinet, piano
Score
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for: 2 voices (ST), piano
Score
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for: Singstimme (S), Vibraphon Kontrabass
Score
Item no.: 381279
for: Flöte, Trompete, Violine, Violoncello, Klavier
Score
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for: Voice (high), piano
Score
Item no.: 676958
for: Orchestra
Score
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