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.
Komposition nach Texten aus Martin Bubers "Buch der Preisungen"
for: Bariton solo, Orgel
Singpartitur, Spielpartitur
Item no.: 116389
2 Gesänge auf Gedichte von Herbert Meier
for: Bariton solo, Violinen (2), Orgel
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 116386
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 116310
Bärenreiter-Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 116175
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Singpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 116135
for: 3 Percussionists
Ensemble score
Item no.: 489850
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 425591
for: SPR VA ELEKTRONIK
Item no.: 284796
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 223282
(Lamentationes 1, 1-5)GeWV 64
for: Männerchor (TTBarBarBB) und Orgel
Choir score
Item no.: 143856
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 137712
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 134439
for: 5 wind instruments
Score
Item no.: 285378
for: Voice (medium), piano
Item no.: 285049
for: Voice
Item no.: 136867
2 pièces
exempla nova 048
for: GES-H (S) FL KLAR VC CEL KLAV
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 374231
exempla nova 049
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 374230
for: INST (4-7)
Item no.: 103140
EMB Contemporary Music
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 851005
aus der Oper "Narzis und Echo"
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 850955
japán költők verseire
Fordította Kosztolányi Dezső
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850764
A prayer from Zs. Erdélyi's collection
Öntőimádság Erdélyi Zsuzsanna gyűjtéséből
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850253
for: Male choir (TTBarBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822748
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 312626
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 196172
Sechs Sätze
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 196040
Három tétel szólóhegedűre
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 256123
Négy darab
for: Saxophone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 255902
for: Flute, cimbalom
Ensemble score
Item no.: 255863
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 255842
népdalokra – iskolásoknak
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 851091
for: 2 viole da gamba [cellos], piano [harpsichord]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 850612
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 850468
Öt gyermekkar op. 11
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 850332
Fire-haunt for two pianos
for: 2 Klavier
Study score
Item no.: 1546382
for: Cor Anglais [Oboe] and Orchestra
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 900176
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Book
Item no.: 338374
Music-theatre work
for: Mezzo Soprano and Ensemble
Book
Item no.: 377804
Hawkes Pocket Scores
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 169498
Hawkes Pocket Scores
for: 2 Trumpets, 3 Trombones and Piano
Study score
Item no.: 488207
for: Piano, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 867328
Übungsheft
A zenei írás-olvasás gyakorló füzetei 5
gyakorló füzetei
for: Voice
Music score
Item no.: 850695
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 850272
op. 4
for: Organ
Item no.: 491842
op. 19b
for: String orchestra
Partitur und Stimmen
Item no.: 463454
Átdolgozott kiadás
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 851116
Socrates utolsó tanítása
EMB HI-FI Scores
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 274379
Rézfúvós trió
for: 2 trumpets, trombone (trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 274227
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