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.
1. Manchmal "Manchmal, wenn ein Vogel ruft"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204893
zum Fest des Hl. Antonius von Padua "Der Geist Gottes, des Herrn, ruht auf mir"GeWV 60
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204718
Preist diesen Tag der Freude / Froher Tag, lichter Tag
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204627
Volkslieder-Zyklus vom Mittelmeer, aus "Lied der Völker"
for: gemischter Chor a cappella (SATB) oder mit Instrumental-Ensemble (Flöte, Klarinette in B, Violine, Kontrabass, Gitarre, Schlagzeug)
Choir score
Item no.: 204513
GeWV 59
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204479
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 199313
Threnos in zwei Teilen nach der Orestie des Aischylos
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 199279
Oper in 3 Akten nach Gozzi
Lyric book
Item no.: 199260
for: Voice, guitar
Book
Item no.: 198573
3. "Das Laub fällt von den Bäumen"
for: Männerchor und Jugendchor
Choir score
Item no.: 204245
1. "Lustig, ihr Brüder"
for: Männerchor und Jugendchor
Choir score
Item no.: 204241
1. Schilflieder
for: Male choir
Chorstimme
Item no.: 204206
5. Dans la maison de doleur
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204177
1. La vraie histoire de douleur "Dedens mon Livre de Pensee"
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204169
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 196467
Choir part Tenor/Bass
Item no.: 203537
2. Die öffentlichen Verleumder "Ein Ungeziefer ruht in Staub"op. 59
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203330
"Dass Gott all die berate" (14. Jh.) / (Alter Spruch)
for: Frauen- oder Kinderchor (MezMezMez)
Choir score
Item no.: 202919
for: 4 Blockflöten, Gitarre, Schlagzeug, Streichquartett und Streichorchester
Streicher-Ergänzungssatz
Item no.: 136666
Szenische Montage eines Tests
for: für 2 Darsteller, elektrische Instrumente, Schlagzeug, Tonbänder und Projektionen
Conductor score
Item no.: 191768
for: 4 clarinets
Set of parts
Item no.: 359279
12 Variations et Fugues
for: Accordion
Score
Item no.: 610660
for String Quartet
Peters Contemporary Library
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts (4)
Item no.: 629003
(nach Monteverdi)
for: Trp, Pos u. Org
Score, Parts
Item no.: 628118
Text aus: Italian Eclogues von Derek Walcott // Autrograph-Edition
for: Stimme, Klavier
Partitur
Item no.: 657499
Studien in moderner Spieltechnikop. 43
for: String orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 648349
für Klarinette, Violine, Violoncello und Klavier
for: Clarinet, violin, cello, piano
Item no.: 565582
(Deutsches Volkslied)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 625502
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 899
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 868187
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 880
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 867721
Lieder der Zecher Nr. 1
Das Leben vergeht wie ein Blitzstrahl
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 879676
Lieder der Zecher Nr. 2
Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib, Gesang
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 869605
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 874931
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 796963
Oper in 4 Akten
Lyric book
Item no.: 462541
for: für Oboe, Klarinette, Violine, Violoncello und Klavier
Taschenpartitur
Item no.: 459097
Nr. 1 I shall not die for thee
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 456027
(40 Drawings by Thoreau) and 23 parts
Item no.: 446867
Chorsätze nach Texten von Bert Brecht
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Single part Percussion
Item no.: 1043772
Symphonischer Satz
for: 3 trumpets, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1108944
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1053320
for: Flute, oboe, cello, harpsichord
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1136576
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1136455
for: Harp
Music score
Item no.: 1136447
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1147849
for: 4 Soloists, Reciter, SA, Flute, Percussion and Organ or String Quartet
Score
Item no.: 1147786
for: String Orchestra and Harpsichord
Score
Item no.: 989826
Oper in drei Akten
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1632901
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