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.
Ein Weihnachtsspiel
Piano reduction
Item no.: 726664
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 144974
on the Introit of the Feast of the Epiphany
for Organ
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 679269
Piano reduction
Item no.: 351997
for: gemischter Chor (MezBar)
Choir score
Item no.: 278164
pour quatuor de saxophones
for: 4 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1562013
Für Kinder- oder Frauenchor a cappella
for: Children's choir [women's choir]
Score
Item no.: 332587
Kantate nach Worten von Josef Weinheber und dem Choral "Macht hoch die Tür" DWV 170
for: Voice (soprano), trumpet, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1656951
for: Piano
Item no.: 397640
for: Women's choir (8 parts), organ
Score
Item no.: 693378
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1664284
for: Singstimme (S), Sprecher, gemischter Chor, Instrument
Score
Item no.: 342668
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 120657
Advents- / Weihnachtschoral für Bass, gemischten Chor und Orgel (Klavier)
for: Singstimme (B), gemischter Chor Orgel
Score
Item no.: 380824
Vertonung bekannter Weihnachtslieder
Choir score
Item no.: 613812
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ
Score
Item no.: 230819
für Sopran und Orgel (Klavier)
for: Singstimme (S), Klavier / Orgel
Item no.: 380829
for: Unison Voice, Organ Accompaniment
Buch
Item no.: 578117
for: Big band
Score
Item no.: 170396
für gem Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 378149
nach alten Hirten-, Weihnachts- und Sternsingerliedern aus Heiligenblut
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 308117
EG 1–535
Set: 7 Bände
for: Organ
7 music scores
Item no.: 868840
for: 2 and 3 Equal Voices
Book
Item no.: 993443
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Kinderchor (SMezA) mit Soli, Sprecher und Instrumenten
Textblatt plattdeutsch
Item no.: 733745
Opera-extravaganza in 2 acts
Study score
Item no.: 737161
Edition Schott
for: 2 Singstimmen, Violine ad libitum und Klavier (oder Orgel)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 746419
Edition Schott
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 760698
for: 2-Part Choir, Oboe, Soprano, String Instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 859567
for: solo Organ
Buch
Item no.: 902691
for: Voice
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 867519
for: Voice (high), piano
Item no.: 610163
for: Voice, 2 violins, viola, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 658875
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 669280
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 629871
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Score
Item no.: 288531
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Partitur
Item no.: 247528
for: gleiche Stimmen (SMezA)
Choir score
Item no.: 281046
for: Männerchor (TTBB) und Kinderchor (SMez) oder Frauenchor (SA)
Choir score
Item no.: 204227
"The holy marter" - Carol on a mediaeval text
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 743353
for: Soli, Kinderchor, Sprecher und kleines Orchester
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 242037
for: Soli, Kinderchor, Sprecher und kleines Orchester
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 242039
for: Soli, Kinderchor, Sprecher und kleines Orchester
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 242038
from A Ceremony of Carols op. 28
for: Mixed choir (SATB), harp [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 493764
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 355080
for Double Choir (SSAATTBB) a Cappella
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1042873
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Soli, Kinderchor, Sprecher und kleines Orchester
Einzelstimme Glockenspiel, Xylophon
Item no.: 734544
"Out of your sleep" - Carol on a mediaeval text
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 740468
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