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: Oboe, Klavier und Schlagzeug
Set of parts
Item no.: 301722
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 169372
for: KLAR (KLAR-A) KLAV
Item no.: 562862
for: Guitar
Guitar (single part)
Item no.: 797239
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 381470
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Item no.: 381418
for: 5 wind instruments
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 494157
for: Viola, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 305917
for: Viola, piano
Item no.: 305912
for: VA KB
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 305865
for: Trombone, organ
Item no.: 305725
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 305701
for: Piano
Item no.: 305525
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 294340
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 292261
for: Piano
Item no.: 215921
for: Piano
Item no.: 381831
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 380316
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 380212
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 309294
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 309291
for: 3 recorders (aat)
Item no.: 227742
for: Piano, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1108945
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 186637
for: 9 Blechblasinstrumente
Set of parts
Item no.: 278184
for: Brass ensemble (11 parts); timpani ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 165792
for: gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB), Bariton und Bassflöte
Score
Item no.: 111446
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 111441
for: Violin
Item no.: 1586308
for: 3 Guitars
Score
Item no.: 363729
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 255811
for: String orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1546297
for: Bariton solo, Orgel
Singpartitur, Spielpartitur
Item no.: 116243
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 880501
for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), viola, theorbo
Score
Item no.: 146813
for: Männerchor: TTBB, Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette, Horn, Fagott
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 116164
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 115936
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1136574
for: Children's choir, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1136573
for: Organ
Ensemble score
Item no.: 873189
for: 3. Trompete
Stimme
Item no.: 874908
for: 1. Trompete
Stimme
Item no.: 874839
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 196466
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for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 196263
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 196255
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 196127
for: Sprecher, Flöte, Violine, Violoncello, Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 472426
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