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: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4, Bass instrument
Item no.: 219249
for: Accordion orchestra
Single parts 1, 2 (Accordion)
Item no.: 219247
for: Accordion orchestra
Single parts 1, 2 (Accordion)
Item no.: 219228
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2
Item no.: 221697
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2
Item no.: 219807
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1
Item no.: 219777
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
Item no.: 220496
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2, 3
Item no.: 220400
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4, Bass instrument
Item no.: 220191
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4
Item no.: 222179
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2
Item no.: 221959
for: SBFL
Single part descant recorder
Item no.: 104806
in fünf Sätzen
for: 3 trumpets, 3 trombones
Part 6 in C low (bassoon / trombone / tuba)
Item no.: 290553
in fünf Sätzen
for: 3 trumpets, 3 trombones
Part 4 in C low (trombone)
Item no.: 290551
(Dragomirna)
for: Mandolin orchestra
Single part Mandola 1, 2
Item no.: 558270
for: Viola
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 366772
Single part Guitar 1
Item no.: 447070
Percussion (orchestral part)
Item no.: 430348
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2
Item no.: 430344
Moderne Tanzrhythmen zu 4 Stimmen
for: Orchester, Streichorchester oder Blockflötenchor mit Schlagwerk; Violoncello/Bass oder Gitarre/Bassgitarre ad libitum
Part 1 in C
Item no.: 208564
Das Schulorchester Bd 10
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 172735
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 177515
kleine Partita für Orgel
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 305603
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
Item no.: 219581
for: BFL SOLO
Single part(n)
Item no.: 104804
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 385985
Märchenmusical
for: Percussion
Single part(n)
Item no.: 424906
op. 20
Einzelstimme Vc.
for: Cello, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 424506
Kantate zum 2. Weihnachtstag
Stuttgarter Telemann-Ausgaben - Urtext
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 226580
9. Hurl of the Wind
for: Frauenchor / Blasinstrumente / Streichquartett / Klavier
Single part Cello
Item no.: 354495
9. Hurl of the Wind
for: Frauenchor / Blasinstrumente / Streichquartett / Klavier
Single part Oboe
Item no.: 354489
Suite in 4 Sätzen
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 305714
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 102994
for: Diatonic accordion
Single part(n)
Item no.: 417902
Besetzung: Hh.1(Solo)/2
for: Diatonic accordion
Single part(n)
Item no.: 393054
for: Accordion
Single part(n)
Item no.: 289953
6 Stücke für Orgel
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 420366
for: 2 violins, viola, cello; double bass ad lib.
Single part Viola
Item no.: 1539020
(in der 1. Lage spielbar)op. 101d
for: 2 Violinen, Violoncello oder Kinderorchester
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 1538983
(in der 1. Lage spielbar)op. 101d
for: 2 Violinen, Violoncello oder Kinderorchester
Single part Cello
Item no.: 1538928
for: für Spielmusikgruppen Violine 1
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 1135101
in fünf Sätzen
for: 6 brass winds
Single part Tenor horn 4
Item no.: 1545469
(liturgisch)
for: gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB), Sopran solo und Orchester
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 1545441
Geistliche Abendmusik
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Alt oder Bass solo, Orgel oder Cembalo und Streicher
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 1545110
Single part Viola
Item no.: 876407
Kantate zum Lob des Weines nach Texten verschiedener Dichter für Solostimme, Chor und Blechbläser oder Klavier
Single part Trombone
Item no.: 869889
Heft 5: Piccola musica per orchestra op. 8 (Michael)
(Fünf kleine Stücke für Orchester)
for: Chamber orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 643478
Fritzsimons Company
for: Organ
Item no.: 432081
© 2004–2024 by Stretta Music. Order and buy sheet music online.
Your specialist for all kinds of sheet music. Online shop, sheet music, music scores and play along for download, books, music stands, music stand lights, accessories.
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Luxembourg
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Denmark
Finland
Sweden
Poland
Czech Republic
Worldwide
