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: gemischter Chor (SATB) a cappella (und 1 Schlagzeug ad libitum)
Choir score
Item no.: 614146
for: Flügelhorn und Klavier
Score, solo part
Item no.: 1199477
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 311066
for: 3 mixed choirs
Choir score
Item no.: 433159
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Studienpartitur
Item no.: 158774
(Ballad and Dance)
after Romanian Folk Songs
for: 2 violins
Ensemble score
Item no.: 303187
for: Piano
Item no.: 354315
for: 2 pianos
Item no.: 139167
for: Guitar
Item no.: 355520
for: Piano
Item no.: 145162
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 499263
for: Organ
Single edition
Item no.: 497747
for: Voice, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 336771
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 352233
for: Cello, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 353274
for: Cello
Item no.: 352781
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 352603
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Study score
Item no.: 352552
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 283717
for: Trumpet, trombone, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 550986
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 388782
for: KLAR-A 5 STR
Score
Item no.: 103105
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 327991
for: Organ
Item no.: 469796
for: für Trompete (in B oder C) und Klavier
Piano reduction
Item no.: 462070
for: String orchestra, percussion
Study score
Item no.: 413933
for: Violine und Tonband oder für 4 Violinen
Ensemble score
Item no.: 113333
for: für Klavier
Item no.: 347527
for: Piano
Item no.: 173934
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 353759
for: Soloists, Choir, String Quartet, Piano [4-Händig] and Percussion
Piano reduction
Item no.: 295738
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 198107
for: 6 Marimbas
Study score
Item no.: 160148
for: 2 String Orchestras, Piano and Percussion
Study score
Item no.: 289689
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 279984
Vocal Score
for: 3 soloists (SABar), mixed choir (SATB), children's choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 288322
for: Accordion
Item no.: 340255
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 348388
for: Accordion
Item no.: 275295
for: 2 percussions
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1017326
for: Organ
Audio-CD
Item no.: 767921
for: Flute, viola, harp
Score, Parts
Item no.: 557516
for: Piano
Item no.: 381489
for: MAND HA (KLAV)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 418357
Edition Flautando
for: 4 recorders (AATB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 159987
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 679509
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 834418
for: Bass clarinet
Score
Item no.: 270543