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.
An Opera in three Acts and a Prologue
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 749
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 365371
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Book
Item no.: 216969
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 665215
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197518
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) [6 voices] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 335309
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 304272
for: Chamber ensemble
Study score
Item no.: 604934
for Timpani
for: Timpani
Music lesson book
Item no.: 477461
for: Voice, horn, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 198569
Ars Novakkordeon
for: Accordion, piano
Item no.: 489874
for: Baritone saxophone
Item no.: 272172
Klassik
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 281565
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 365427
for: Organ
Item no.: 372441
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 362896
for: Accordion
Item no.: 380556
Streichtrio Nr. VL 78
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 654876
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 903606
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 623200
pour soprano, cornetto et orgue
for: Voice (soprano), cornett, organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 622906
for: 2 GES (CH) ORG
Item no.: 227251
for: Organ (solo), string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1031698
for: Percussion, piano
Score
Item no.: 1684767
for: 2 Vibraphones
Item no.: 213896
for: 4 percussions, electronics
Set of parts
Item no.: 859065
for: Violin, viola
Score
Item no.: 391162
für Flöte und Violine
for: Flute, violin
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 270868
for: Horn
Music score
Item no.: 267010
for: Flute and Recorder
Score
Item no.: 238459
Die Antwort der Quellen auf ein umstrittenes Thema
Verbesserte und stark erweiterte Neuausgabe
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 420416
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 964129
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score
Item no.: 349835
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 216336
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 166042
for 13 Instrumentalists
for: 13 Instrumentalisten
Study score
Item no.: 754622
Métamorphoses nocturnes
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 748481
Edition Schott
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 736826
from "Polish Requiem"
for: 8 cellos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 740017
III. movement from the sextet for woodwind instruments and piano
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 760650
Distinguished Choral Music
for: gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 759329
Three Songs on Poems by Sándor Weöres
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 760479
for organ
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 756031
(With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles / Mit Pfeifen, Trommeln, Schilfgeigen)
for: Mezzo-Sopran und 4 Schlagzeuger
Study score
Item no.: 750083
after Poems of Christian Morgenstern
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 750027
Sing- und Spielmusik für Liebhaber und Musikfreunde
for: mittlere Singstimme (od. 1stg. Chor) und 3 Instrumentalisten (Streicher od. Bläser)
Score
Item no.: 746654
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 746541
for three violoncellos
for: 3 cellos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 724815
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