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.
from Song of Solomon
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695749
für Bassklarinette
for: Bass clarinet
Buch
Item no.: 1541858
(With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles / Mit Pfeifen, Trommeln, Schilfgeigen)
Musik unserer Zeit
for: GES-M (MEZZ) 4 SCHLAGZ
Study score
Item no.: 170854
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 140962
for: 4 melodic instruments
Item no.: 565465
for: Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and French Horn
Score, Parts
Item no.: 325716
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197517
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 558073
The Romantic Period
for: Organ
Study book
Item no.: 293430
für Gesang und Klavier
aus "The Tempest", "Twelfth Night" und "Midsummer Night's Dream"
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 683724
Theory – Theme – Development – Forms – Harmony
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 334186
Petite cantate de chambre pour 6 voix mixtes ou chœur a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) [6 voices] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 335309
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 217812
Score
Item no.: 328758
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 108905
Premier Livre
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 365523
Tantsud. Musik für Kindertheater
Veröffentlicht auf CD: ERES-CD 06
Musik aus Estland
for: Piano
Item no.: 389286
Konzert für Violine und Orchester
exempla nova 162
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 108759
for alto Saxophone
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 100850
(3e cycle)
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 270562
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 395583
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: Violin, piano [harpsichord]
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 108915
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 368694
In memoriam Olivier Messiaen
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 184492
für 12stimmigen Frauenchor und Orchester
for: 12-stimmiger Frauenchor (4S,4Mez,4A) und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 446606
cahier n°1 nos. 1 – 12
La musique d'église
for: Organ [harmonium]
Music score
Item no.: 206554
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 226923
Transcriptions for guitar
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 226680
for two pianos
for: Piano, orchestra
Piano reduction (2 piano's)
Item no.: 109179
für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 380399
exempla nova 512
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 614209
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 101002
Act III – Conclusion
für Orgel solo bearbeitet
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 367153
for: Oboe, piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 641708
A sonata for two clarinets - one in Bb and one in A.
for: 2 clarinets
Ensemble score
Item no.: 279855
Flautario
for: Recorder, piano
Item no.: 145869
für Streichquartett
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 583529
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 101277
Ten pieces for manuals only
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 629903
Three pieces for guitar after a painting by Cornelia Foss
for: Guitar
Score
Item no.: 226681
für Chor (SATB), auch mit Instrumenten/ Orchester
vollständige Partituren
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 492598
Premier livre
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 191719
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 633348
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 197790
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 315684
Versenymű oboára és zenekarra
for: Oboe, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 254952
Revidierte Ausgabe nach der Neuen Gesamtausgabe
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 108874
Klavier oder Harfe solo
for: Piano [harp]
Music score
Item no.: 381792