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.
Kantate für Soli, Chor und Instrumente4. Prelude: "Summer"
for: zwei Sopranblockflöten, Trompete (Kornett), Violine, Trommel und Klavier
Item no.: 354458
for: Piano
Item no.: 353660
Eine Volksliedkantate unter Benutzung des gleichnamigen Chorsatzes von Heinrich Isaac
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), Soli (ABar) und Instrumente
Score
Item no.: 353628
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 892485
Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 894948
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 894600
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 880501
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 769672
Concerto per quattro fiati ed orchestra
for: Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette, Fagott und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 352877
for: Sopran-solo, Bass-solo, gemischter Chor und Orchester
Set of parts
Item no.: 352721
Cantata in 3 parts
3. Canticle to Hope
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 351387
Ballett-Pantomime nach dem Roman von Dostojewskij. Idee vonTatjana Gsovsky, Text von Ingeborg Bachmann
Piano reduction
Item no.: 351230
Der Papagei aus Kuba
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 352021
Oper in 2 Aufzügen
for: Voices, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 352002
Lateinamerikanische Tänze
for: Orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 334680
for: für 2 Stimmen und andere Schallquellen
Partitur
Item no.: 332395
für Rezitation, Flöte, Violine, Violoncello und Klavier
for: Sprecher, Flöte, Violine, Violoncello, Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 472426
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1342
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 480275
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 623773
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 584763
for: Guitar
Guitar (single part)
Item no.: 797239
for: Piano, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 383567
Orchestervariationen über ein Thema von Carl Maria von Weber
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 383193
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 383118
for: Piano
Item no.: 381831
Four Movements for Band
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 381470
für Sopran und Klavier (oder Tonband)
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Item no.: 381418
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 583325
Per Quartetto D'Archi
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 259089
Per Violino O Viola Oppure Contrabbasso E Anche Chitarra)
for: Mixed Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 259065
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 776639
Partitura
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1548071
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1548065
for: Voice, flexible ensemble
Score
Item no.: 778755
for: Voice (soprano)
Score
Item no.: 777705
for: Voice, instruments
Score
Item no.: 777699
Per 11 Strumentisti (1984)
for: Mixed Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 482717
Per Quartetto D'Archi (1979 - 80)
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 259732
Strumenti Come Scena Di Danza Drammatica
for: Opera
Score
Item no.: 259659
Gegenwartsmusik
Score
Item no.: 259599
Per Pianoforte E Orchestra - Partitura
for: Orchestra and Piano
Score
Item no.: 259524
Per Orchestra
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 259458
for: Diatonic accordion
Item no.: 418952
for: Accordion
Set of parts
Item no.: 227930
for: Accordion orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 219325
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 218884
for: Accordion orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 218872
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 923033
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