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: Voice, piano
Item no.: 207324
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 668220
Edition Schott
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1209375
for: Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bariton, Bass, Sprecher, gemischter Chor, Knabenchor, 3 Orgeln, Schlagzeugensemble und großes Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 1544904
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1021709
Canzoni d'amore inglese
for: Cello, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 748629
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 748620
for Cello
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 748545
für gemischten Chor
for: gemischter Chor (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB)
Chorpartitur graphisch notiert
Item no.: 748486
Edition Schott
for: Violine und großes Orchester
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 748479
Cunctipotens genitor Deus
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 748298
Nr. 13 Ascendente Jesu in naviculam (Matth. 8, 23-27)
for: Voice (tenor/soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 748255
Little Pieces for piano
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 748161
Ballett in zwei Teilen nach dem Märchen "Der Geburtstag der Infantin"
for: Alt-Solo, Frauenchor und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 748142
for: 3 Trompeten in C und Streichorchester
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 749935
Edition Schott
for: 2 trumpets (C)
Music score
Item no.: 749929
1. De circuitu aeterno (Eccl. 1, 4-9)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 749926
(Ungarische Etüden)
for: gemischter Chor (je 4 SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 749922
8. Terpsichore "Hilaris Terpsichore ter pede terram"
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746977
"Laudatu si mi signore per quilli ke perdonano"
for: gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB); Instrumente ad libitum
Spielpartitur = Chorpartitur
Item no.: 746973
Songs from Mátraszentimre after Hungarian folksongs
for: 2-3-stimmiger Kinderchor (Frauenchor, ad libitum Männerchor) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746930
Two pieces based on Hungarian folk texts
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746912
Organum und Psalm 117
for: Männerchor (TTTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 746905
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 750579
Edition Schott
for: Frauenchor oder 3 Solostimmen (SSA) und Orgel
Choir score
Item no.: 750577
Seven Pieces for Piano Four Hands
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 750451
for 8 (16, 24, 32,…) Piccolos and 8 Basel Drums (with 8 Whistles)
for: 8 (16, 24, 32, ..) Piccoli und 4 Basler Trommeln (mit 8 Trillerpfeifen)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 750346
Edition Schott
for: Bassetthorn (oder Bass-Klarinette oder Fagott) solo
Music score
Item no.: 750319
Transcription
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 750194
Part XII, Highway 61, after a blues by Fred MacDowell
for: Klavier, Mundharmonika und Kazoo (1 Spieler)
Music score
Item no.: 750065
for Cello
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 750063
for: Violoncello (Violine, Viola) oder Klarinette (Alt-Saxophon) und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 750058
Four Bagatelles
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 750029
for Clarinet
for: Clarinet (B-flat)
Music score
Item no.: 749996
Stücke für kleine und große Kinder auch zum Erzählen und Mitsingen
for: Piano (2 hands/4 hands)
Music score
Item no.: 750895
pour Grand Orgue et Positif
for: Orgel-Positiv und große Orgel
Spielpartitur 2 Exemplare
Item no.: 750783
Nach einem Text von Martin Opitz (1625)
for: 8-stg. gemischter Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 750780
7 Impromptus
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 750712
Version for clarinet (A and Bb) and piano
for: Clarinet, piano
Music score
Item no.: 750684
for Violoncello and 13 Solo Strings
for: Violoncello und 13 Solo-Streicher
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 750670
based on old German religious folksongs
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 748017
Psalmi 120, 122, 130 et 133
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751819
3. Klageliche not / 4. Du bist min
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751789
1. Hör zu, Geliebte
for: gemischter Chor (SAATB) mit Bariton solo
Choir score
Item no.: 751767
(Night · Morning)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751756
(Matthew 21,9)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751557
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 554626
Music Of Our Time
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 729790
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