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.
Drei Meditationen
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 736141
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: String orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 743082
Excerpts
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 724776
Edition Schott
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 748510
Edition Schott
for: Horn, piano
Music score
Item no.: 748570
Cantiones profanae
for: Soli (STBar), gemischter Chor (SATB), Kinderchor und Orchester
Conductor score
Item no.: 758564
175 solo pieces from eight centuries
for: Treble recorder
Music score
Item no.: 761742
Version for Violin
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 750674
from: Axion Esti
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 752409
Edition Schott
for: Schlagzeug mit 6 Spielern (1. Spieler: 4 chin. Becken, Triangel, ant. Zimbeln, 2 hängende Becken, Tamtam, 7 thail. Gongs, Amboß, Holzblock, Tumba; 2. Spieler: 4 Tom-Toms, kleine Trommel, Militärtrommel, 3 Tempelblöcke; 3. Spieler: kleine Trommel, große Trommel, Maracas, 4 Tom-Toms, hängendes Becken; 4. Spieler: Xylophon, Vibraphon, 2 kleine Becken, ant. Zimbeln, Maracas, Tumba; 5. Spieler: Vibraphon, Maracas, hängendes Becken, 2 Tamtams, Schellentrommel, 2 Gongs; 6. Spieler: Glockenspiel, Marimba, Tarole-Tr
Ensemble score
Item no.: 748494
Edition Schott
for: Harp
Music score
Item no.: 793909
Music Of Our Time
for: Flöte (auch Piccolo), Klarinette (B), Fagott, Trompete (B), Akkordeon, Klavier, Schlagzeug (1 Spieler), 2 Violinen, Viola, Violoncello und Kontrabass
Study score
Item no.: 729082
Edition Schott
for: Harpsichord
Music score
Item no.: 736778
No. 8 from "Nobilissima Visione"
for: Viola, piano
Music score
Item no.: 754627
Edition Schott
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 726738
for: 100 Metronome (2 oder mehr Spieler unter Anweisung eines Dirigenten)
Partitur (Aufführungsanweisung)
Item no.: 796534
for high voice and piano
for: Voice (high), piano
Single edition
Item no.: 747664
Music Of Our Time
for: Chamber orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 781608
for Voice and Piano (or Orchestra)
for: Stimme und Klavier (oder Orchester)
Music score
Item no.: 755176
Edition Schott
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 727936
Cantiones profanae
for: Soli (STBar), gemischter Chor (SATB), Kinderchor und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1548762
for violin and orchestra
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 729538
Edition Schott
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 752515
Music of Mourning
for: Viola (Violine, Violoncello) und Streichorchester
Orchestermaterial je 1 Violine 1, Violine 2, Bratsche, Violoncello, Kontrabass
Item no.: 733965
for viola (cello/clarinet) and orchestra
for: Viola (Violoncello, Klarinette) und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 735690
Suite from the opera
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 750052
Volume II for choir and brass instruments
for: Chor und Blechblasinstrumente
Chorpartitur + Klavierauszug
Item no.: 743280
for: Holzbläser, Schlagzeug und Klavier
Study score
Item no.: 758155
Edition Schott
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 761447
Song Cycle for low female voice and Piano
for: tiefe Frauenstimme und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 750763
40 Selected Pieces For Piano. Arranged By Tatiana Papageorgiou
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 752384
for 8 clarinets and piano
for: 8 Klarinetten und Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 757842
(Carnival Song)
for: Frauenchor (SSSSAAAA)
Choir score
Item no.: 733920
in freier Neugestaltung
for: Alt und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 741264
(Four Wedding Dances)
for: 3 Singstimmen oder Frauenchor (SMezA) und Klavier
Score
Item no.: 740295
Edition Schott
for: 2 recorders (SA)
Music score
Item no.: 749663
for violin solo
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 731684
Edition Schott
for: Schlagzeug mit 4 Spielern
Ensemble score
Item no.: 739083
(Eine kleine Geschichte von Alice)
for: Sopran und Violine
Single edition
Item no.: 794327
(The Moving Mansion)
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 759851
for violin and piano
for: Violin, piano
Ensemble score
Item no.: 782456
per violino, viola (violoncello) ed orchestra
for: Violine, Viola (Violoncello) und Orchester
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 755323
Para el "Quítate de la Acera"
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 754161
8 Pieces for organ
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 750605
per clarinetto e pianoforte
for: Clarinet, piano
Music score
Item no.: 782466
for flute (clarinet) and chamber orchestra
for: Flöte (Klarinette) und Kammerorchester
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 729627
for ensemble
for: Ensemble
Study score
Item no.: 758599
for: gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB), Violine und Violoncello
Ensemble score
Item no.: 755793
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