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.
arranged for piano
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Double bassoon, piano
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for: Voice [choir], organ [harmonium]
Score
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for: Piano
Item no.: 118470
for: Flute and Electronics
Buch
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for: Violin (solo), viola (solo), string orchestra
Score
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Edition Peters Green Series
for: Voice
Music score
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for: Flute, piano
Score, Parts
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for: Clarinet
Music score
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for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Flute (Technik) (Technique)
for: Flute
Item no.: 215358
for string quartet (2004/2006)
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 462069
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 482911
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 431698
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197517
Including first publication of two further settings
for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), piano
Score
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for: Organ
Book and music score
Item no.: 237869
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 365523
from the music to the film "Agony" and the opera "Life with an Idiot"
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 781184
for: 2 violins
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 108897
for: Clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass (string quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 663410
for: Horn, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Viola
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
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for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: Violin
Music score
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for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 672754
for: GES-M (MEZZ) 4 SCHLAGZ
Study score
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for: Violin, piano
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for: 2 bassoons [cellos], piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 684748
für Bassklarinette
for: Bass clarinet
Buch
Item no.: 1541858
per viola solo
for: Viola
Music score
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for: Piano
Item no.: 577598
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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for: Mezzosopran und Tonband oder für 3 Stimmen
Partitur
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for: Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and French Horn
Score, Parts
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for: Organ
Study book
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The Original Edition
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Countertenor oder Alt und Orgel
Item no.: 364791
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 216168
für Gesang und Klavier
aus "The Tempest", "Twelfth Night" und "Midsummer Night's Dream"
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 683724
Five songs
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 292406