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: Harmonic Canon II and Bass Marimba
Spielpartitur Faksimile-Edition
Item no.: 793871
for saxophone quartet
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 781782
for 14 players
for: 14 Spieler
Study score
Item no.: 782061
Edition Schott
for: Horn (F), piano
Music score
Item no.: 750683
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 750669
Megalynarion of Pascha
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) und Gemeinde (ad libitum)
Choir score
Item no.: 750599
(Melodies from Rimsky-Korsakov's anthology "100 Russian Folk Songs")
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 750490
for baritone and piano
for: Voice (baritone/alto), piano
Score
Item no.: 750487
Revolt of the organs
for: 9 Orgeln (8 Positivorgeln und 1 große Orgel) und Percussion (3 Spieler: 2 Crotales, 5 Wood Blocks, 5 Temple Blocks, 5 Toms, 4 Gongs, Tam Tam)
Stimmensatz je 1x Orgel 1 bis 9, 3x Schlagzeug (Partitur)
Item no.: 750465
Edition Schott
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 750442
Scherzo
for: Klarinette in B und Akkordeon
Music score
Item no.: 750436
Supplement 2019
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 750340
für 4 Violoncelli (oder 4 Fagotte)
for: 4 Violoncelli (4 Fagotte)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 750291
definitive Fassung
for: Solo-Bratsche und größeres Kammerorchester
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 721046
New Version 1994
for: 2 orchestras
Study score
Item no.: 720701
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660317
from "Twelve Miniature Studies"
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 791555
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 791511
op. 30
for: Viola, cello
Music score
Item no.: 797343
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1026650
for: Trumpet, trombone, strings, percussion
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 1024948
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba, strings
Study score, Single parts
Item no.: 1023969
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1023601
for: Horn, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1023599
Edition Schott
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 736177
Edition Schott
for: Trumpet, organ
Music score
Item no.: 736164
for saxophone quartet
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 736152
Edition Schott
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 735742
for: 2 Holzbläser (Flöten, Alt-Blockflöten oder Flöte und Oboe) und Streichorchester
Score
Item no.: 735725
from the opera "The Midsummer Marriage"
for: Orchester, Chor und 4 Soli ad. lib.
Study score
Item no.: 735671
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554926
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554587
for: Cello
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1562197
from "24 Spielereien and Fuges for 24 different Ensembles"
for: Piano
Sheet music
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for: Violin
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1561142
for: Cello
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1561135
for: Cello
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1612473
for: Bass Clarinet
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1612308
for: 2 trumpets, chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1021797
for: Trumpet, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 666354
for: Trumpet, brass band
Score
Item no.: 1024519
for: Trombone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1023096
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914594
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1041617
for: Opera in One Act
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1041029
for: Mixed choir (8-12 parts); organ ad lib.
Music score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Violin, piano
Instrumental Duet
Item no.: 1613129
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