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.
Ein Orchesterspiel
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 299817
GeWV 109
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 295002
for: für Zupforchester
Set of parts
Item no.: 294912
für 4 Trommler (Faksimile) (Facsimile)
for: Percussion quartet (4 players)
Performance scores
Item no.: 294033
per flauto (clarinetto) ed orchestra da camera
for: Flöte (Klarinette) und Kammerorchester
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 293951
op. 101a
for: Violin, viola, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 304025
für Bläseroktett
for: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, horn, bassoon (octet)
Study score
Item no.: 303760
for: Soloists [TBar], Mixed Choir [SATB] and Orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 303013
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 302641
Spielstücke aus "Musik für Kinder"
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Item no.: 299159
Cantilena - Alleluja
for: Oboe, organ
Item no.: 298749
Hawkes Pocket Scores
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 292784
op. 22
for: Voice (medium), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 292714
for: für Violine und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 291253
for: gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orgel
Choir score
Item no.: 297179
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 296230
für Blechbläser
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 306892
Klavierissimo, Heft 3 (für den bürgerlichen Haushalt)
for: Piano
Item no.: 305440
for: String orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 358210
frühe Fassungop. 48
for: Solo-Bratsche und größeres Kammerorchester
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 358207
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 370009
Arnold Schönberg – Portfolio
Ein Einblick in Schönbergs Bildschaffen
mit 32 Farb-Abbildungen
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 369476
für gemischten Chor
for: gemischter Chor (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB)
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 352613
for: Piano
Item no.: 352569
for: 7 Sänger und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 352506
"Compases para preguntas ensimismadas"
for: Viola und 22 Spieler
Study score
Item no.: 352489
op. 46/1
for: Viola d'amore, hamber orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 352484
Oktettsätze aus der "Kammermusik 1958" und "Adagio"
for: Klarinette, Fagott, Horn, 2 Violinen, Viola, Violoncello und Kontrabass
Set of parts
Item no.: 352396
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 354211
for piano and orchestra
for: Piano, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 354163
Drei wunderschöne Mädchen im Schwarzwaldop. 6
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 354006
op. 70
for: Percussion, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 353874
for: Harp
Item no.: 353758
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 353705
aus den Sonetten von Shakespeare
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Item no.: 353106
aus "Carmina burana"
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) und Klavier 4-händig
Score
Item no.: 353078
for: 2 oder 3 Gitarren
Ensemble score
Item no.: 353066
Fünf Sätze für zehn Bläser
for: 2 Flöten (2. auch Piccolo), 2 Oboen (2. auch Englischhorn), 2 Klarinetten, 2 Hörner, Fagott, Kontrafagott (auch 2. Fagott)
Score
Item no.: 353034
Ballade
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Item no.: 352980
Symphonische Dichtung
Musik unserer Zeit
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 352856
Trio
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 352854
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 352851
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 352806
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 352732
nach Lautensätzen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert
for: Flöte, Oboe, Fagott, Trompete, Posaune, Cembalo und Schlagzeug (4 Pauken, Triangel, Schellentrommel, Xylophon (2 Spieler))
Score, Parts
Item no.: 352711
Choralvorspiele I/II
für Orgel, Nebeninstrumente und Tonband
Score
Item no.: 352645
for: Piano
Item no.: 355693
op. 37
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 355624
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