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.
für gem Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 378149
for: Soli, Kinderchor, Sprecher und kleines Orchester
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 242037
for: Soli, Kinderchor, Sprecher und kleines Orchester
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 242039
for: Soli, Kinderchor, Sprecher und kleines Orchester
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 242038
from A Ceremony of Carols op. 28
for: Mixed choir (SATB), harp [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 493764
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 355080
for Double Choir (SSAATTBB) a Cappella
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1042873
"Out of your sleep" - Carol on a mediaeval text
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 740468
for: Soli, Kinderchor, Sprecher und kleines Orchester
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 242036
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 355082
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 291099
for: Voice (alto)
Item no.: 386088
Score
Item no.: 388084
for: Männerchor (TBB) und Kinderchor (SMez)
Choir score
Item no.: 203852
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Single part Cello
Item no.: 182103
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 178827
for: Mixed choir [women's choir], harp
Single part Harp
Item no.: 198584
for: String orchestra
Item no.: 142568
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 926021
Magnificat
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 231040
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Single part Flute
Item no.: 162036
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 305602
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Single part for mallets
Item no.: 144978
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 386090
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 386087
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 386068
KLEINE CHORALMOTETTE FUER GEM
CHOR (SAB), PARTITUR (1958)
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR A CAPPELLA GEISTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 119281
CHOR, PARTITUR (DT)
for: CHORMUSIK FRAUEN- + KINDERCHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG GEISTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 119383
for: Concert band
Item no.: 295264
for: Männerchor (TTBB) und Kinderchor (SMez) oder Frauenchor (SA)
Choir score
Item no.: 204231
for: 5 TRP, [Orgel]
Item no.: 163520
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 916684
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1195496
gemischter Chor, Orgel
Item no.: 248290
Vocal score
Item no.: 191538
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Single part Harpsichord
Item no.: 184361
for: Männerchor (TTBB) und Kinderchor (SMez) oder Frauenchor (SA)
Choir score
Item no.: 204229
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 139903
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309144
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1108953
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Single part
Item no.: 144980
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 386091
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 386066
for: Voice (alto)
Item no.: 386064
deutsche Textfassung
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 577361
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