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: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1103951
aus "Schilflieder
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 740062
"Die Sterne sind erblichen"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 740096
2. Lady's Lament - Frauenklage
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733263
4. Wales: Gwenllian
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733397
for flute and orchestra
for: Flute, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 745353
"Kind, wo bist du hin gewesen?"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751921
"Du, Herr, bist der Begleiter meiner Wanderfahrt"
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Tenor solo, Streichorchester und Harfe (Orgelpositiv) oder mit Orgel
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 749998
Kantate nach zeitgenössischen Nonsensversen
for: Chor (Mez/Bar), Sprecher und variable Instrumente
Einzelstimme 2. Stimme in C
Item no.: 791148
Kantate nach zeitgenössischen Nonsensversen
for: Chor (Mez/Bar), Sprecher und variable Instrumente
Einzelstimme 3. Stimme in C
Item no.: 791150
2. Nachts / 3. Begegnung
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 782699
(Mähren)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 782702
"Das mir alles das hold sei" (nach dem Orff-Schulwerk)
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 782729
nach Gedichten von Gabriela Mistral
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 793845
for: Soloists, SATB, handbells, flute, harp, Percussion and Organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1037471
for: Flöte, Mezzosopran, Cello
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1639925
Nachspiel zu AION
for: Piano
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1639949
Geistliche Abendmusik
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Alt oder Bass solo, Orgel oder Cembalo und Streicher
Choir score
Item no.: 782000
Kantate
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) oder Frauenchor (SMezA) mit Orchester
Einzelstimme Sopran- / Alt-Xylophon
Item no.: 727543
for: 2 Violinen und Violoncello (solistisch oder chorisch)
Stimmensatz solistisch
Item no.: 733700
Kantate
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) oder Frauenchor (SMezA) mit Orchester
Einzelstimme Sopran- / Alt-Glockenspiel
Item no.: 727545
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 791832
Full Score
for: Voice
Score
Item no.: 806465
3. Spruch
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 736157
(Deutsches Volkslied)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746904
for: 3 Trompeten in C und Streichorchester
Solostimme Trompete I in C
Item no.: 754059
(Friedrich von Schiller)
for: gemischter Chor und Instrumente
Chorstimme Männerstimmen
Item no.: 784434
1. Vom Hausregiment "Es ist gewiss ein frommer Mann"
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747121
Studie für Violine allein
Revidierte Neuausgabe
for: Violin
Sheet music
Item no.: 1639932
for: Flute
Sheet music
Item no.: 1640012
for: gemischter Chor, Sopran- und Bariton-Solo und Orchester
Choir score
Item no.: 758354
pour deux altos
for: 2 violas
Buch
Item no.: 1542025
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1560792
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Woodwind ensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 832335
for: Viola, piano
Music score
Item no.: 665471
Inspiration Series
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1211378
Inspiration Series
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 864381
per quartetto d'archi
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 1162425
for: 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, organ
Organ score, solo parts
Item no.: 769258
zum Fest des Hl. Antonius von Padua "Der Geist Gottes, des Herrn, ruht auf mir"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742723
"Dass Gott all die berate" (14. Jh.) / (Alter Spruch)
for: Frauen- oder Kinderchor (MezMezMez)
Choir score
Item no.: 733327
Die Landsknechte
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 784277
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1161413
for: Horn, piano
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1018475
(Tredici trame N. 9)
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 779199
for: Sho solo und Orchester, Studienpartitur
Study score
Item no.: 1542380
for: Cello or 2 Celli and Piano
Score
Item no.: 852235
for: Violin, piano
Score
Item no.: 853492
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