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: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 728070
op. 16
for: gemischter Chor (SSATBB) a cappella oder mit Orgel oder Blechbläser
Set of parts (Wind instruments)
Item no.: 747105
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 837636
Klassik
for: Bass Clarinet, SATB
Piano reduction
Item no.: 835827
for: Voice (bass), alto flute, cello, harpsichord
Set of parts
Item no.: 858395
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 900084
Klassik
for: Chamber orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1103883
for: Chamber ensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 1147515
Pour Violon Et Percussion
for: Violin and Mallet Percussion
Buch
Item no.: 1140225
aus "Kanon Pokajanen"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1019940
Klassik
for: Flute and Harpsichord
Book
Item no.: 977199
Piano Concerto No. 4 2019
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1541877
for: Percussion ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1541418
for: Trombone and Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1541256
for: Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1589937
The Cold Trip I
for: Voice (medium), 4 guitars (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1016440
for: Harpsichord
Music score
Item no.: 684436
for: 8 cellos
Score
Item no.: 1552993
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 649568
Trumpet Solo
for: Trumpet
Music score
Item no.: 835562
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Set of parts
Item no.: 771016
Choruses from Nixon In China, Doctor Atomic, A Flowering Tree
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 817517
Piccolo-Flöte, Violoncello und Klavier
for: Piccolo-Flöte, Violoncello und Klavier
Item no.: 865067
Klassik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 992810
for: Voices and Piano
Book
Item no.: 993286
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Book
Item no.: 993153
Klassik
for: Trio
Set of parts
Item no.: 818526
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 662910
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 614378
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 330985
für Sopran und 5 Instrumente
for: Voice (soprano), instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 670590
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Theremin and Orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 920939
for: Male choir, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1108939
for: Violin, viola
Ensemble score
Item no.: 634956
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 634755
Klassik
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 634681
Urtext
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 635914
für Ensemble (2017)
for: Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1541803
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1079641
Piano score, ensemble score
Item no.: 619017
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 638078
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