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 4, Bass instrument
Item no.: 219244
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1
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Luzerner Orgelbuch II Heft 3
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 138831
Unison Song zu einem Gedicht von Shelley
for: Chor einstimmig, Streicher und Klavier oder für Stimme und Klavier
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 354539
Das Akkordeon Duo
for: 2 accordions (duet)
Single part(n)
Item no.: 176508
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 148262
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Electronium (Bass instrument)
Item no.: 160629
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 103002
for: Violin
Single part Violin
Item no.: 103111
Spielmusik für drei Violinen - Violine 3
zur solistischen oder chorischen Verwendung im Unterricht unter Berücksichtigung der verschiedenen Lehrmethoden.
for: 3 violins
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 127573
Spielmusik für drei Violinen - Violine 1
zur solistischen oder chorischen Verwendung im Unterricht unter Berücksichtigung der verschiedenen Lehrmethoden
for: 3 violins
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 127571
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3
Item no.: 127030
Single part
Item no.: 371227
Single part Organ
Item no.: 342191
Single part Guitar 3
Item no.: 447072
Single part Guitar 2
Item no.: 447071
4 Tunes from the Scottish Island of Sanday
for: String quartet [string orchestra]
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 587294
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1
Item no.: 221713
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4, Bass instrument, Electronium, Percussion
Item no.: 219148
Meditationen über das gleichnamige Relief des Bronzeportals von San Zeno in Verona
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 292504
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 386072
für Tuba oder 2 Tuben, mit oder ohne weitere Instrumente ad libitum
Single part(n)
Item no.: 562682
Northumbrian Folksong
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Single part descant recorder 2
Item no.: 748839
for: String orchestra, percussion
Single part Cello
Item no.: 783939
(liturgisch)
for: gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB), Sopran solo und Orchester
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 791175
Kantate über den 84. Psalm für vier Solostimmen (SSAB), gemischten Chor (SSATB) und Orchester
Violine 1
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Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676854
nach rumänischen Volksliedern
for: school orchestra
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 783757
for: String orchestra
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 784683
for: String orchestra
Single part Cello
Item no.: 783628
Single part Violin
Item no.: 1174712
Petrulus hirrutusop. 49
for: Kinder- oder Jugendchor, 2 Flöten, Streichorchester und Klavier, Schlagzeug ad libitum
Single part Flute 2
Item no.: 1544701
GeWV 50
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit 3 Trompeten und 2 Posaunen oder Klavier 4-händig
Single part Trumpet 1 (B-flat)
Item no.: 1545213
(Moosburger Cantional)GeWV 4
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Solo (hoch) und Streicher; Blockflöte, Flöte, Oboe, Fagott und Schlagzeug ad libitum
Single part Kettledrum
Item no.: 1546146
for: Orchestra
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 784902
Unicornis gratia
Leichte Musik für Blockflöten-Chor
Flautario 30
for: Recorder ensemble (SATB)
Single part Tenor recorder
Item no.: 696876
Cantare e sonare 014
for: 3 recorders, strings
Single part descant recorder 1
Item no.: 638460
Klassik
Single part Flute
Item no.: 616595
for: String orchestra
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 784473
D Abendkonzert - Nr. 2
for: Flute, string orchestra
Violin (orchestral part)
Item no.: 649373
(Dragomirna)
for: Mandolin orchestra
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 558267
Heft 5: Piccola musica per orchestra op. 8 (Michael)
(Fünf kleine Stücke für Orchester)
for: Chamber orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 300126
Heft 5: Piccola musica per orchestra op. 8 (Michael)
(Fünf kleine Stücke für Orchester)
for: Chamber orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 300125
für Kontrabass u. Orchester
Solostimme Kontrabass
for: Double bass, orchestra
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 306001
für Violoncello u. Orchester (= Konzert für Bass-Klarinette od. Fagott u. Orch.)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Single part
Item no.: 305923
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 305691
Single part
Item no.: 430347
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Electronium
Item no.: 430346
for: Cello, harp
Single part(n)
Item no.: 103001
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