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.
6. Am Abend "Geh unter, schöne Sonne"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746917
Sing- und Spielmusik für Liebhaber und Musikfreunde
for: Streich- und Blasinstrumente
Score
Item no.: 746661
Edition Schott
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 746651
Edition Schott
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 747989
Bachmann Poems I
for: Frauenstimme, Alt-Saxophon, Klavier und Schlagzeug
Score, Parts
Item no.: 747821
Edition Schott
for: Alt, gemischter Chor (SATBarB) und 2 Oboen
Spielpartitur Oboe 1, Oboe 2
Item no.: 741410
Choreographisches Drama in 4 Aufzügen
for: Solo, Sprecher, Chor und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 741184
for Violoncello and Orchestra
for: Cello, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 741046
for: Guitar, marimba, handbells
Music score
Item no.: 740633
(Psalm 129, 1-5)
for: gemischter Chor (SATB/SATB/SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 742534
Edition Schott
for: Oboe (Englisch Horn, Viola und Harfe
Ensemble score
Item no.: 747240
1. True Love - Wahre Liebe
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746965
Sacred Concerto
for: Singstimme (Mez oder Bar) und Orgel
Music score
Item no.: 735553
Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 734889
for: gemischter Chor a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 734754
Edition Schott
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 734629
für Violine solo
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 734595
Improvisations for harpsichord, solo alto and eight solo instruments
for: Cembalo, Altstimme und 8 Soloinstrumente
Study score
Item no.: 734283
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette, Bass-Klarinette in B, Fagott, Horn, Trompete in C, Posaune, Klavier, Violine, Bratsche, Violoncello und Kontrabass
Study score
Item no.: 734172
Version for violin
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 724786
from "Dies illa"
for: 3 gemischte Chöre (SATB/SATB/SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 724377
Music Of Our Time
for: Violine solo, Streicher und Holzbläser
Study score
Item no.: 724247
for solo piano
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 724214
op. 89
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 723503
Easy, light playing pieces
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 726098
Text by Giuseppe Ungaretti
for: 4 Stimmen (Countertenor oder Alt, 2 Tenöre, Bass/Bar.), solistisch oder chorisch
Choir score
Item no.: 725995
Edition Schott
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 727185
for cornet in Eb (flugelhorn in B)
for: Cornet in Es (auch Flügelhorn in B)
Single edition
Item no.: 727083
for orchestra
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 726763
2. Fassung
for: Klarinette (in B/Es) und Streichquartett
Set of parts
Item no.: 726705
Edition Schott
for: Klavier, Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette (A), Horn und Fagott
Score, Parts
Item no.: 726662
9 Stücke in der ersten Lage
for: 2 Geigen oder 2-stimmigen Geigenchor
Ensemble score
Item no.: 730838
6 Lieder
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730706
for clarinet solo
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 730415
Edition Schott
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 729644
Edition Schott
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 729640
Music for Guitar solo and 15 Solo Instruments
for: konzertierende Gitarre und 15 Soloinstrumente
Solostimme
Item no.: 729582
op. 38a
for: Soli (SA), Frauenchor, Viola und Orgel
Score
Item no.: 729196
Edition Schott
for: Frauenchor (SSA) oder 3 Solostimmen und Orgel
Choir score
Item no.: 729117
7 Progressive Pieces for Guitar
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 729025
op. 35
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 728840
für Klavier, Bratsche und Heckelphon oder Tenorsaxophon
for: Klavier, Bratsche und Heckelphon (Tenorsaxophon)
Set of parts
Item no.: 728837
Edition Schott
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 728054
from the opera for children "Pollicino"
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 727722
for solo flute
for: Alt-Flöte
Music score
Item no.: 784023
for piano
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 783510
for piano
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 783422
for violin solo
for: Violin
Single edition
Item no.: 794328
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