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.
für Wolfgang
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1541988
Buch
Item no.: 1174122
for: Double bass, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1140746
for: Voice
Choir score
Item no.: 1174551
for: Vocal Ensemble
Buch
Item no.: 834356
for: Choral
Buch
Item no.: 1174129
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 834281
Klassik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 1174576
Klassik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1103733
for: Flute, Guitar, Percussion, Soprano
Buch
Item no.: 1174565
für Sopransaxophon in B
for: Saxophone Soprano
Buch
Item no.: 1541927
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1197643
per pianoforte e strumenti
for: Piano and Instrument
Score
Item no.: 1162423
Buch
Item no.: 1174664
Klassik
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 1352619
for: Oboe and Mixed Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1138099
for: Accordion, Cello, Flute, Guitar, Soprano
Buch
Item no.: 1174453
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1171311
Buch
Item no.: 1174475
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1172539
for: Voice (medium), organ
Item no.: 430788
for: FCH FL ORG (+ KB)
Score
Item no.: 367053
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 562484
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 491704
8 Pieces Pour Flute Et Pian
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 343381
Ars Novakkordeon
for: Accordion
Item no.: 489537
for: GES-H (S) HA
Item no.: 472151
for: 6 trumpets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 470898
for: Piano
Item no.: 475056
GEM CHOR A CAPPELLA, PARTITUR
GEKUERZTE NEUFASSUNG
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR A CAPPELLA GEISTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 119512
for: VL VC PERC GIT CEMB KLAV
Score
Item no.: 148668
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 146928
Das Hein Klavierwerk 4
for: Piano
Item no.: 459559
for: BFL KLAR SAX ALL HA GIT KB
Score
Item no.: 150339
Saxophonquartett
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Single part(n)
Item no.: 469742
for: Bass flute
Item no.: 156472
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 167674
for: Oboe, harpsichord
Music score
Item no.: 465660
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 246213
for: Trumpet, piano
Item no.: 289433
for: Piano
Item no.: 562261
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 261343
for: FL POS KLAV PERC
Score, Parts
Item no.: 265982
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Item no.: 265951
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 556804