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.
(2004)
Testo di Marguerite Yourcenar
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1346642
Entwicklungen zu einem und Veränderungen über ein Thema von Johannes Brahms (Intermezzo op. 116 / 6) für Klavier
for: Piano
Item no.: 158201
for: Piano
Piano score
Item no.: 268607
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 904829
for: Percussion, piano
Item no.: 326146
für Orgel mit obligatem Pedal
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 665506
for six players
for: Flöte, Oboe, Harfe, Klavier, Violine und Violoncello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 632018
lieferbar nur über Verlag
Peters Contemporary Library
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 638617
for: Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1620464
3. Mondaufgang "Die Erde ist gehüllt"GeWV 56
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204059
aus Suite Nr. 2 für Jazzorchester
Der berühmte Walzer endlich in einer Fassung für Zupforchester
for: Mandolin orchestra
Single part Mandola
Item no.: 686907
aus Suite Nr. 2 für Jazzorchester
Der berühmte Walzer endlich in einer Fassung für Zupforchester
for: Mandolin orchestra
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 686909
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 892681
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1542692
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 1136452
Poesie für Bariton und Orchester
for: Voice (baritone), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 310411
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 833238
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1632890
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1678389
for: Piano, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 758097
Sonate No. 3
for: Violin
Item no.: 630738
2. Römische Fontäne
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751785
1. "Lustig, ihr Brüder"
for: Männerchor und Jugendchor
Choir score
Item no.: 751976
4. Der Liebe Schrein "Wüsst ich, ob es auch blieb"
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742547
"Wie Stein mit Meißel ficht"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742683
2. Lied des Musterknaben: "Meine Eltern zeigen"
for: Children's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747111
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 747243
1. Die Gewissheit "Ob ich morgen leben werde"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747030
5. Rechenstunde "Zwei und zwei sind vier"
for: gemischter Chor (SSAATBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 747032
from the musical fairytale "Pollicino"
for: Orchestra
Einzelstimme Solovioline
Item no.: 783754
Auftragswerk des Centro Nacional de Difusión Madrid
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1639951
Musik für zwei Klaviere
for: 2 pianos
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1639973
Handlung in 2 Teilen
for: Soli und Orchester
Lyric book
Item no.: 1341083
Zwei Studien für Violoncello solo
for: Cello
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1639953
for: Melodie und Begleitung (Singstimme und Begleitinstrument, Melodieinstrument und Begleitinstrument oder singender Instrumentalist)
Music score
Item no.: 793072
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 668413
(liturg.)
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 729163
from the musical fairytale "Pollicino"
for: Orchestra
Einzelstimme Sopran-Altxylophon
Item no.: 783705
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), orchestra
Choir part Soprano/Alto
Item no.: 782732
for: 3 Trompeten in C und Streichorchester
Solostimme Trompete III in C
Item no.: 754060
Sovereign Series
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1211241
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Book
Item no.: 1119519
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Buch
Item no.: 1589977
for: Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1589975
(2011)
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1215838
Klassik
for: Viola, piano
Book
Item no.: 1103948
for: Percussion ensemble
Buch
Item no.: 1137648
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931589
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