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.
in memoriam Fr. Danzi
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 306399
Endlich bleibt nicht ewig aus
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 309292
Kirchenliedsaetze
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309160
Kirchenliedsaetze
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309159
für verschiedene Besetzungen
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308149
for: Piano
Item no.: 305480
Klavierissimo, Heft 4, (f. erwachsene Kinder)
for: Piano
Item no.: 305479
Klavierissimo, Heft 9
for: Piano
Item no.: 305476
Ausonius, Beauvais, Petronius, sechsstimm. , gem. Chor a capp.
for: Mixed choir (6 voices) a cappella
Ensemble score
Item no.: 306964
für Flöte, Klavier und Schlagwerk
for: Flute, percussion, piano
Music score
Item no.: 555868
Buch
Item no.: 252650
Buch
Item no.: 251214
for: Bassoon and Small Orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 866902
Fünf Madrigale nach Gedichten von Lessingop. 27/1
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1538952
Studien in moderner Spieltechnikop. 43
for: String orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1545684
Petrulus hirrutusop. 49
for: Kinder- oder Jugendchor, 2 Flöten, Streichorchester und Klavier, Schlagzeug ad libitum
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 1545217
Studien in moderner Spieltechnikop. 43
for: String orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1544840
Choralvorspiele für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1009131
Fantasy
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 658471
für Klavier solo (2010)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 656335
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 656209
Item no.: 245982
für Streichorchester
for: String orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 246612
Per Violoncello, Pianoforte E Sette Strumenti (1994)
for: Chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 245539
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 247749
4 Gedichte nach Rainer Maria Rilke
for: High Voice and String Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 247748
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 173416
mit Begleitung des Orchesters, Klavierauszug mit Solostimmen
for: Clarinet, bassoon, piano
Item no.: 162737
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 464207
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 464203
for: Piano
Item no.: 165491
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 165097
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 165063
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 161406
for: 5 Percussionists
Stimmen-Set
Item no.: 161381
für gem. Chor u Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 162106
for: 2 horns, piano
Item no.: 167874
Petrulus hirrutusop. 49
for: Kinder- oder Jugendchor, 2 Flöten, Streichorchester und Klavier, Schlagzeug ad libitum
Choir score
Item no.: 579880
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 476364
for: 4 bassoons
Item no.: 179376
for: Vocal, Strings and Guitar
Buch
Item no.: 171504
for: Viola
Item no.: 171388
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 465661
for: 3 accordions (trio)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 169047
für Posaune solo
for: Trombone
Item no.: 170693
for: Singstimme (hoch), (S/T) gemischter Chor Orchester, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 433684
for: GES-H (S) GCH A-SAX TRP GIT
Score
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