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.
Marcos Vinicius Guitar Collection
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 675507
Edition Schott
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 728688
Klassik
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Book
Item no.: 905403
op. 93
for: Klarinette, Violine und Violoncello
Study score
Item no.: 1538870
exempla nova 441
for: Alto flute
Music score
Item no.: 1552876
exempla nova 437
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 1552877
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850890
for piano (from Piano Concerto No. 3 IMPULSE) 2017-2018
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1542009
Music Of Our Time
for: 2 Klarinetten in C, Trompete in C und Fagott
Score, Parts
Item no.: 726663
op. 46
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1538925
op. 96c
for: Saxophon und Orchester
Klavierauszug mit Solostimme
Item no.: 1539034
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Mixed ensemble
Score
Item no.: 833232
The Journey
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1149236
Oper in drei Akten und neun Bildern nach dem Schauspiel von Heinrich von Kleist (1958-1959/1991)
Musik unserer Zeit
Study score
Item no.: 690555
for: Brass ensemble, organ
Score
Item no.: 1149041
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 1149151
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1149276
for: Cimbalom
Music score
Item no.: 1558918
opera to words from Shakespeare's King Learop. 83
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1545345
aus: COncErto?
for: Posaune solo
Item no.: 1545866
für Vokalensemble a cappella nach Texten Psalm 36, Psalm 150 und Tao Te King von Laotse
for: STTTB
Study score
Item no.: 1542279
op. 10
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1134890
in the Style of the 16th Century
Book
Item no.: 893408
für Alt solo und Orchester
for: Voice (alto), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 680564
for: Cello, Flute, Guitar, Mezzo-Soprano, Percussion, Soprano
Buch
Item no.: 1174405
from the musical fairytale "Pollicino"
for: Orchestra
Einzelstimme Baßxylophon
Item no.: 783714
3. O can ye sew cushions
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733386
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1658621
for: Symphonic orchestra
Music score
Item no.: 922697
for: Cello solo, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1020646
aus der Oper "Der Rattenfänger"
Klarinette in C (alternativ in B) und Schlagzeug
for: Clarinet, percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1677982
from the Opera 'Cardillac'
for: 2 flutes, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 750775
for tenor saxophone, piano and percussion
for: Tenor-Saxophon, Klavier und Schlagzeug
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1632784
für 4 Trompeten, Horn, 4 Posaunen und Tuba
for: 4 trumpets, horn, 4 trombones, tuba
Score, Parts
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Gegenwartsmusik
for: Narrator, Mixed Choir [SATB] and Ensemble
Piano reduction
Item no.: 921199
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 792031
2. An Eriskay Love Lilt
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746995
für Violine und Streichorchester
Partitur und Stimmen (solo-1-1-1-1-1)
for: Violin, string orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1645254
Klassik
for: Voice
Book
Item no.: 876595
Konzertszene für Countertenor und Orchester 2016
for: Orchestra and Counter Tenor
Score
Item no.: 1541902
for: STI SET
Set of parts
Item no.: 1542559
op.48
1949
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 683626
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 1148646
Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
for: Mixed choir (SAATTBB) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910992
Edition Schott
for: Flöte (Txistu in F) und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 739489
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 887
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 867171
für Klavier zu zwei Händen
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1542172
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