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.
Aufführungsmaterial leihweise
for: FL ABFL OB VL VC CEMB
Score
Item no.: 419795
for: 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons (sextet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 419743
Per Voce Sola da Paul Claudel
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 390507
Per Contrabbasso
for: Double bass
Score
Item no.: 259530
2 Cori A 4 Voci Miste E 2 Orchestre - Partitura
for: Choir and Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 259184
for: Gitarrenduo
Buch
Item no.: 257906
Gegenwartsmusik
for: 3 Mixed Choirs a Cappella
Buch
Item no.: 257775
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 131822
Piano reduction
Item no.: 429692
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 131051
for: Tuba, strings
PAR ST
Item no.: 149490
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 132927
(Conte Lyrique Enfant )
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 134582
for: GES-H (T) ORG
Organ reduction
Item no.: 133583
Buch
Item no.: 252634
for: Guitar
Score
Item no.: 253629
Version für Flöte und Violoncello
for: Flute, cello
Score, ensemble scores
Item no.: 367912
for: Flute, guitar
Item no.: 367084
Item no.: 610465
for: 2 Gitarren
Set (2)
Item no.: 610018
(Facsimile)
for: A-SAX HRN TRP-C HA VC KB PERC
Score
Item no.: 363941
for: 4 trumpets
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 336715
for: A-SAX SPR
Item no.: 335148
for: Mixed ensemble
Score
Item no.: 457288
Saxquartett
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 306169
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 838150
for: Flexible ensemble
Score
Item no.: 271879
Per Quartetto D'Archi - Parti
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1548062
Study score
Item no.: 1542446
Audio-CD
Item no.: 362308
for: Organ
Item no.: 342072
Das Schulorchester 6
for: STR (+ PK)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 333094
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 584691
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 584689
Piano reduction
Item no.: 584682
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1177891
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Buch
Item no.: 1174408
Original Version
Buch
Item no.: 1173949
for: Guitar, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1141576
for: Flute, violin, piano
Score
Item no.: 185291
for: OB EHRN KLAV
Item no.: 149867
für Bariton und Instrumentalensemble
for: GES-M (BAR) ENSEMBLE
Score
Item no.: 138905
Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden (Psalm 117) / Lasset das Wort Christi (Kol. 3,16-17)
for: Männerchor (TTBB); Orgel ad libitum
Score
Item no.: 733471