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: 3 violins
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 740592
for: String orchestra
Single part Viola
Item no.: 784768
for: String orchestra
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 784767
for: String orchestra
Single part Viola
Item no.: 784684
Northumbrian Folksong
for: Kinderchor (Mez) und 3 Blockflöten (SSA)
Treble recorder (single part)
Item no.: 748840
for: Orchestra
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 784905
Kantate
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) oder Frauenchor (SMezA) mit Orchester
Single part Viola
Item no.: 727540
Music for three Violins soloists or groups destined for the group-teaching and adapted to various methods
for: 3 violins
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 731334
for: 4 Hörner in F, 3 Trompeten in B und 3 Posaunen
Single part Trombone 2
Item no.: 354913
for: Piano, string orchestra
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 144933
for: Frauenchor / Blasinstrumente / Streichquartett / Klavier
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 354493
for: gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB) mit Bariton solo und Orgel
Single part Organ
Item no.: 111439
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 282943
for: Organ
Single part Organ
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Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
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for: Recorder ensemble (SATB)
Single part descant recorder 1
Item no.: 696878
for: String quartet [string orchestra]
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 385693
for: Orchestra
Single part for mallets
Item no.: 266289
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Oboe (orchestral part)
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
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für Frauenchor, Oboe, Streicher und Orgel
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2
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für 3stg Chor (SABar) u. Orgel (Harmonium 2 Vl ad lib)
Single part Bass instrument
Item no.: 490654
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1
Item no.: 219503
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3
Item no.: 219486
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2, 3
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, Electronium
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2, 3, 4 (Bass instrument)
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2, 3, 4 (Bass instrument)
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1, 2
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1, 2
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2 b, 3
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2, 3
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(Dragomirna)
for: Mandolin orchestra
Single part Mandola 3, 4
Item no.: 558271
Oboe 1 (orchestral part)
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Kantate über den 84. Psalm für vier Solostimmen (SSAB), gemischten Chor (SSATB) und Orchester
Trompete 2 in C
for: 4 solo voices (SSAB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Trumpet 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676846
for: Organ, string orchestra [2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, double bass], percussion
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 645773
for: Trumpet
Single part
Item no.: 372642
for: Accordion
Single part(n)
Item no.: 327201
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Single part(n)
Item no.: 139687
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 305708
for: für Spielmusikgruppen Violine 1
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 1135047
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2
Item no.: 221703
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3
Item no.: 221698
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4
Item no.: 222189
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