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.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 185864
for: Accordion
Item no.: 209094
Chamaeleon
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 245174
for: 2 trumpets
Stimmen-Set
Item no.: 180263
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 169083
Klassik
for: Bass Clarinet and String Quartet
Set of parts
Item no.: 1087237
Klassik
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1103646
Set of parts
Item no.: 1174552
per flauto e pianoforte
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1162386
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1013226
Klassik
for: Chamber ensemble
Buch
Item no.: 1174260
for: Soli, SSAA and Soundtrack
Piano reduction
Item no.: 953048
für Sopran und Klavier nach Texten aus dem West-Östlichen Divan
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1541982
for: Harp, piano
Buch
Item no.: 834372
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 1351602
for: Brass band
Set of parts
Item no.: 1145235
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Buch
Item no.: 834035
Klassik
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Book
Item no.: 1103915
for: SSSAA
Choir score
Item no.: 1142582
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1197637
for sho and electronics
for: Shô and Electronics
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1541949
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Soprano Voice, Clarinet and Percussion
Buch
Item no.: 920946
for: TTTTBBBB and Oboe
Piano reduction
Item no.: 953025
Klassik
for: Chamber orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1103883
Pour Violon Et Percussion
for: Violin and Mallet Percussion
Buch
Item no.: 1140225
Piano Concerto No. 4 2019
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1541877
for: Percussion ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1541418
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1174373
arr. from Concerto No.1 for Organ & Strings
for: Organ and 2 Pianos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1197717
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1103814
for: Bariton Saxophone, Choir and Piano
Buch
Item no.: 1138692
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Theremin and Orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 920939
for: Male choir, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1108939
for: Soloists, SATB, handbells, flute, harp, Percussion and Organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1037471
Inspiration Series
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1211378
for: Klarinette Violine Cello Klavier
Spielpartitur
Item no.: 1562475
für zwei Violinen
for: 2 violins
Ensemble score
Item no.: 685865
for: SSAATTBB
Choir score
Item no.: 953059
für Flöte und Klarinette
for: Flute, clarinet
Ensemble score
Item no.: 685866
There is a separate Stretta website for the country Worldwide. If your order is to be delivered to this country, you can switch, so that delivery times and shipping conditions are displayed correctly. Your shopping cart and your customer account will remain the same.
switch to Stretta Music Worldwidestay on Stretta Music Finland