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.
Babi Yar
for: Soloist (bass), male choir (TTBB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1681473
for: Voice (soprano), harp
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1677775
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1689964
Leningrad
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1680966
für 7 Frauenstimmen, 4-5 gemischte Stimmen (solistisch oder chorisch) und Fernchor ad lib.
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1582003
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1690121
Lieder nach Gedichten von Nora Gomringer
(2020/21)
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1690094
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1689966
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1689957
aus Carmina Burana
for: Flöte, Flötenchor
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1689726
for: Alto saxophone, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 884228
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1689320
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1689334
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 1689173
for: 2 oboes
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1689170
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1688212
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 1688211
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1688185
für Violine, Viola, Violoncello und Klavier
for: Violin, viola, cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1687987
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1687974
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1687970
for: 2 violins, cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1687971
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1687991
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1687977
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1687969
for: 2 violins
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1684827
per pianoforte
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1684529
for: 2 violas
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1684672
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1684550
Bright Music for Dark Times
for: Flute, bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1684522
for 8 cellos
for: 8 cellos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1684382
HPS 1440
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1681188
Text selected from ancient Pompeiian graffiti
HPS 1682
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1681184
pour flûte, hautbois, clarinette, clarinette basse, basson, cor, trompette, trombone, violon, alto, violoncelle, contrebasse
for: Chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1681176
Der 1. Mai
for: Choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1680952
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1678454
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1678398
for recorder solo
(soprano, alto and tenor recorder in alternation)
for: Recorder
Set of parts
Item no.: 1678129
for: Brass ensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 1678135
for: Brass ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1678136
for: Voice, alto saxophone (E-flat)
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 1677774
for: Chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 832676
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1677491
for: Cello, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1677094
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1676690
for: Chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1672863
Versione per fisarmonica di Claudio Jacomucci
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 1672754
(Zongoraszonáta)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1672518
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