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.
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
für Mezzosopran, Flöte, Violoncello und Klavier
for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), flute, cello, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 647229
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1140682
for: Double bass, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1137820
Klassik
for: Piano Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1102727
from Lady Macbeth
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1132551
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1197392
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 920950
Version B
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1174279
for: Voice (medium), flute, piano
Item no.: 122242
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 355896
for: Violin
Item no.: 286265
for: Recorder, piano
Item no.: 465036
Piano score, ensemble score
Item no.: 619017
for: Narrator, Children's choir (1-2 parts), mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ; the parish ad lib.
Viola, cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689669
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1175491
for: Celtic Harp
Buch
Item no.: 1140186
for: Horn, piano
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1018475
Klassik
for: Voice
Buch
Item no.: 1174640
for: Violin, viola, cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 556062
for: Mandocello
Item no.: 487940
for: Piano
Item no.: 114053
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 104051