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: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
Item no.: 220071
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2, 3
Item no.: 220190
Percussion (orchestral part)
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Klarinette solo
for: Clarinet
Single part
Item no.: 105878
Single part Bass instrument
Item no.: 387290
7 Choralvorspiele für Orgel
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 420364
Akkordeonorchester
Akkordeon 2a
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2
Item no.: 340338
Spielmusik für 3 Violinen zur solistischen oder chorischen Verwendung im Unterricht unter Berücksichtigung der verschiedenen Lehrmethoden.
for: 3 violins
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 740294
Music of Mourning
for: Viola (Violine, Violoncello) und Streichorchester
Single part Cello
Item no.: 748079
Music of Mourning
for: Viola (Violine, Violoncello) und Streichorchester
Single part Viola
Item no.: 748078
(Luk. 2, 1-20, Kürzinger)
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Treble recorder (single part)
Item no.: 747237
Cantata No.1
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Single part Percussion
Item no.: 725093
Moderne Tanzrhythmen zu 4 Stimmen
for: Orchester, Streichorchester oder Blockflötenchor mit Schlagwerk; Violoncello/Bass oder Gitarre/Bassgitarre ad libitum
Single part Percussion
Item no.: 748431
nach rumänischen Volksliedern
for: school orchestra
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 783759
nach rumänischen Volksliedern
for: school orchestra
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 783746
for: String orchestra
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 784471
for: Klavier und Streichorchester mit Flöte oder Violine
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 784104
for: Klavier und Streichorchester mit Flöte oder Violine
Single part Violin 1
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for: Orchestra
Guitar (single part)
Item no.: 784899
for: 4-stimmigen Geigenchor oder 4 Geigen allein
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 784633
for: 4-stimmigen Geigenchor oder 4 Geigen allein
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 784632
Spiel für Kinder nach einem Text von Robert Seitz
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Single part Tenor recorder
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for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 305690
for: Organ
Single part Organ
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for: Orchestra
Single part Trumpet 1
Item no.: 784894
for: String orchestra
Single part Viola
Item no.: 784472
for: Klavier und Streichorchester mit Flöte oder Violine
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 783847
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 1557909
Single part
Item no.: 305880
for: String quartet [string orchestra]
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 385691
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Solo (hoch) und Streicher; Blockflöte, Flöte, Oboe, Fagott und Schlagzeug ad libitum
Single part Percussion
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for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Solo (hoch) und Streicher; Blockflöte, Flöte, Oboe, Fagott und Schlagzeug ad libitum
Single part Violin 1
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for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit 3 Trompeten und 2 Posaunen oder Klavier 4-händig
Single part Trombone 2
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for: 4 Hörner in F, 3 Trompeten in B und 3 Posaunen
Single part Trombone 1
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Single part Double bass
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for: Frauenchor / Blasinstrumente / Streichquartett / Klavier
Single part Flute 2
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for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Alt oder Bass solo, Orgel oder Cembalo und Streicher
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 1582565
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Alt oder Bass solo, Orgel oder Cembalo und Streicher
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 1546410
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1043717
for: für Spielmusikgruppen Violine 2
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 1134829
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 147617
for: Accordion
Single part(n)
Item no.: 134712
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1657272
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Flute 1, 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1657257
for: Recorder [flute], cello, organ
2 single parts
Item no.: 1121027
Kantate über den 84. Psalm für vier Solostimmen (SSAB), gemischten Chor (SSATB) und Orchester
Trompete 3 in B
for: 4 solo voices (SSAB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Trumpet 3 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676850
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 137110
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