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.
Saxquart
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 306172
für Violine, Streichorchester u. Schlz. (1 Spieler), Ausgabe für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 305829
Klavierissimo, Heft 8, Zehn Tänze
for: Piano
Item no.: 305478
for: Piano
Item no.: 305448
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 622888
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Study score
Item no.: 310437
Violone, Violoncello und Großes Orchester
for: Violin, cello, organ
Study score
Item no.: 310400
für gem Chor u. Orgel
for: GCH ORG INST
Organ score
Item no.: 308055
für Orchester
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 310208
Sonate für Klavier und Streichorchester
for: Piano, strings
Study score
Item no.: 310145
Kirchenliedsaetze
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309149
Ach und ach, die gute Sophilette
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308841
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 476794
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 194032
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 218100
Contempore
for: 3 BFL (SAB) / 2 VL VC
Item no.: 192141
for: 3 Trompeten in C und Streichorchester
Solostimme Trompete II in C
Item no.: 731255
Kantate über den 84. Psalm
für vier Solostimmen (SSAB), gemischten Chor (SSATB) und Orchester
for: 4 solo voices (SSAB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 676797
Lateinamerikanische Tänze
for: Orchestra
Einzelstimme 4. Stimme in C
Item no.: 729528
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 920943
pour flûte et piano
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 656830
Psalm 101, 145
XXI Century sacred Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 654840
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 776908
Opera in drei Akten und neun Bildern
for: Libretto
Lyrics
Item no.: 1542511
op. 33
(1994)
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 1331536
for: Accordion orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 219378
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 219373
for: HH SOLO
Item no.: 219366
for: Accordion orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 219291
for: Accordion
Item no.: 260953
Score
Item no.: 259629
Per Sestetto Vocale Misto
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 259113
Da 'Cinque Frammenti All'Italia'
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 259107
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 219665
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 221961
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 221720
(Monolog V)
for: SAX SCHLAGW
Ensemble score
Item no.: 283174
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 283170
Fünf kleine Stücke, die mit knappen technischen Anforderungen die Stimmungen "Erhaben", "Ausgelassen", "Froh", "Traurig" u. "Besinnlich"
for: Piano
Item no.: 282877
Werk H95H
for: Viola, piano
Item no.: 177993
for: Accordion
Item no.: 400969
for: Guitar
Item no.: 414057
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