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: Alto saxophone, piano
Buch
Item no.: 834035
for: Organ, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1197259
Klassik
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Book
Item no.: 1103915
for: SSSAA
Choir score
Item no.: 1142582
Klassik
Study score
Item no.: 1542491
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1197637
for sho and electronics
for: Shô and Electronics
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1541949
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 390957
for: Clarinet, Cello and Piano
Score
Item no.: 1174359
Klassik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1541220
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Soprano Voice, Clarinet and Percussion
Buch
Item no.: 920946
for: Harp or Harps
Score
Item no.: 884284
3 bizzarrie e un intermezzo
for: Voice, harp [piano]
Piano reduction
Item no.: 778415
'Omaggio A Beethoven' (1989-1994, Rev 1995)
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 868357
for: TTTTBBBB and Oboe
Piano reduction
Item no.: 953025
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Score
Item no.: 1174349
for: 2 Violinen und Violoncello (solistisch oder chorisch)
Stimmensatz solistisch
Item no.: 733700
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 791832
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
op. 16
for: gemischter Chor (SSATBB) a cappella oder mit Orgel oder Blechbläser
Set of parts (Wind instruments)
Item no.: 747105
Klassik
for: Chamber orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1103883
for: Chamber ensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 1147515
Pour Violon Et Percussion
for: Violin and Mallet Percussion
Buch
Item no.: 1140225
Klassik
for: Flute and Harpsichord
Book
Item no.: 977199
Piano Concerto No. 4 2019
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1541877
for: Percussion ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1541418
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1174373
for: Flute, Violin, Violoncello and Piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 1542886
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Buch
Item no.: 1542655
arr. from Concerto No.1 for Organ & Strings
for: Organ and 2 Pianos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1197717
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1103814
for: Bariton Saxophone, Choir and Piano
Buch
Item no.: 1138692
Klassik
for: Mezzo Soprano and Viola d'Amore
Buch
Item no.: 1542187
Klassik
Study score
Item no.: 1542330
Klassik
for: Mezzo-Soprano, String Quintet and Guitar
Study score
Item no.: 1542485
"Soomer is i-coomen in"
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) und Klavier
Score
Item no.: 729144
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 614378
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Theremin and Orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 920939
for: Male choir, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1108939
Anton Webern 1940)
Score
Item no.: 391056
Drei rumänische Volkslieder 2
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308760
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