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.
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Violin, orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 921072
for soprano, violin,viola, violoncello and optional piano
for: Voice (soprano), violin, viola, cello; piano ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 620133
for: Trombone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1351526
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1009154
für Oboe (Englischhorn), Klarinette (Baßklarinette) Violine, Viola und Kontrabaß
for: Chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 664897
für Vibraphon und Marimbaphon
for: Vibraphone, marimba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 664471
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 663513
für 4 Trompeten, Horn, 4 Posaunen und Tuba
Hommage an Ludwig van Beethoven zum 250. Geburtstag im Jahr 2020
for: 4 trumpets, horn, 4 trombones, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 680845
Sound Research of Women Composers: Contemporary Music (C 469)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 697701
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 649460
for: Soprano Saxophone and Percussion
Buch
Item no.: 628179
für zwei Schlagzeuger (2007)
for: 2–8 Percussionists
Ensemble score
Item no.: 656320
for: Cor anglais, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 655705
for string quartet and piano
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 682703
for: Clarinet, accordion
Music score
Item no.: 691280
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos (sextet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 684182
Gegenwartsmusik
for: 7 Soloists, Choir and Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 921719
pour piano
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 684210
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 833576
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 921809
für fünf Blockflöten
Edition Flautando
for: 5 recorders (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 632796
Solowerk für Marimba.
Uraufgeführt am 1. Juni 2013.
for: Marimba
Music score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 635724
für gem. Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 633784
Für 2 Flöten und Bassklarinette
Ensemble Time Band 147
for: 2 flutes, bass clarinet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 634961
for: BL ENSEMBLE 3 PK
Partitur, Stimmen
Item no.: 614068
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 611847
for: Mixed Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 331649
for: 6 voices (SSMezTBarB)
Score
Item no.: 611289
Music score
Item no.: 612776
for: Organ
Item no.: 331190
for: 2 trombones
Item no.: 331004
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 658079
Hommage à Wassily Kandinsky
pour flûte (aussi flûte de sol), clarinette (aussi basse) et piano
for: Flute, clarinet, piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 660908
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 660907
for Percussion Sextet
for: Percussion ensemble (6 players)
Score
Item no.: 660617
for: Cello, accordion
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 654953
for: Tuba, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 615089
for: Cello
Score
Item no.: 619326
Music score
Item no.: 615763
für Kenner und Liebhaber
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 289583
for: Trumpet, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 289432
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 278802
Meditation zur Adventszeit
für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 296887
Saxhorn/Euphonium Vol.1
for: Euphonium
Music score
Item no.: 292604
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 229118
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