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.
großes Orchester
Partitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1622601
großes Orchester
Partitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1622599
Klassik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 1174527
(1987) - Partitura
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1548634
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 779037
Per Flauto E 14 Esecutori (1994) - Partitura
for: Flute and Mixed Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 413458
Gegenwartsmusik
Buch
Item no.: 1539738
für zwei Kontrabassklarinetten
for: Double Bass Clarinet Or Bass Clarinet Solo
Buch
Item no.: 1541749
Musikalische (Früh-)Erziehung
Buch
Item no.: 1176181
Klassik
for: Flute, Violin, Cello and Piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 839049
Sopran, Flöte, Violoncello und 2 Percussion
Partitur
for: Sopran, Flöte, Violoncello und 2 Percussion
Score
Item no.: 869478
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 922735
for: Flexible ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1542945
Klassik
for: Guitar and Piano
Book
Item no.: 1102932
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1174493
Flöte
Solostimme
for: Flute
Solostimme
Item no.: 1624680
Per pianoforte, coro a 24 voci, due voci bianche invisibili
for: 1–4 voices [choir], piano
Score
Item no.: 778865
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1110433
2 V, Va, Vc, Kontrabass
Rondo nach schottischen und bayerischen Volksliedern
Item no.: 1616643
Set of parts
Item no.: 1174262
4st. gemischter Chor
Item no.: 1616138
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Piano 4 hands
Score
Item no.: 1542705
Viola and Bassoon or Cello
for: Viola, bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1103866
Alto Voice
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1043705
Buch
Item no.: 1174153
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1197284
Klassik
for: Soprano-, Alto-, Tenor- and Baritone Saxophone
Set of parts
Item no.: 835738
For String Quartet and Piano
for: Klavier und Streichquartett
Score
Item no.: 1623292
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 839467
Klassik
for: Chamber ensemble
Buch
Item no.: 1194053
Canticle for Orchestra
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1611381
for Orchestra (9x12 score)
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1622076
For String Quartet and Piano
for: Klavier und Streichquartett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1623293
Small Score
Item no.: 1622545
for: Soloist and SSAA
Choir score
Item no.: 1142747
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1148577
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1015169
Majmånemusik
for: Violin, Cello, Piano Chamber
Score
Item no.: 835900
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 836073
Klassik
for: Set aus 4 Spielpartituren/Stimmen
Buch
Item no.: 1542405
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 646536
for: Flöte, TblFlöte, Set mit 2 Spielpartituren
Buch
Item no.: 1542616
Solo-Konzert
for: Viola, string orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 879531
for Persian Oud and String Trio
for: Persian Oud and String Trio
Score, Parts
Item no.: 876953
for: Viola, piano
Buch
Item no.: 833927
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