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.
Buch
Item no.: 264665
for: Flute, clarinet, bassoon
Set of parts
Item no.: 276840
for: Accordion
Item no.: 273382
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Score
Item no.: 558839
Contemporary Organ Repertoire
for: Organ
Item no.: 279092
für Violine, Klarinette, Tenorsaxophon und Klavier
for: VL KLAR T-SAX KLAV
Score, Parts
Item no.: 268798
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 268628
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 446533
for: Trombone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 296034
Buch
Item no.: 252635
for: Harpsichord
Item no.: 181512
for: 4 recorders (quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 310354
Kammermusik für 9 Soloinstr.
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 306574
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 306277
Konzert Nr. 2
for: Viola, string orchestra
Single part (Viola solo)
Item no.: 1351691
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1137688
for: AKK 3 4 BASS SCHLAGZ
Item no.: 219608
for: PERC ENSEMBLE
Set of parts
Item no.: 288557
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 131823
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 554373
for: KLAV STR PK SCHLAGZ
Score
Item no.: 554369
Score
Item no.: 114393
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 114124
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 608963
for: ORG BLECH
Score, Parts
Item no.: 581657
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 1015191
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 920883
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1108957
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 299428
for: Organ
Item no.: 299739
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 618831
for: FL VL AKK
Partitur, Stimmen
Item no.: 615936
for: Trumpet, organ [piano]
Item no.: 311302
for: Accordion
Item no.: 273337
for: Mixed ensemble
Buch
Item no.: 142927
op. 162
Stimmensatz
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 236541
for: Piano
Item no.: 485233
for: 3 trumpets, timpani
Item no.: 417741
for: Viola
Item no.: 137904
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 137857
for: Percussion
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 137809
for: Piano
Item no.: 137786