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.
Northumbrian Folksong
for: Kinderchor (Mez) und 3 Blockflöten (SSA)
Treble recorder (single part)
Item no.: 748840
1. Nachtlied "Quellende, schwellende Nacht"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 742614
Tratschende Frauen; aus: Zwei Kanons; Slowakische Volksdichtung in ungarischer Übersetzung
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730989
Northumbrian Folksong
for: Kinderchor (Mez) und 3 Blockflöten (SSA)
Choir part
Item no.: 748838
(Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753396
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730719
for: Frauenchor (SAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 1552338
3. Stille Quellen "Flieht auch der Jugend Glanz"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 742616
Wie ein Strom möcht' ich fließen; aus: Zwei Kanons; Slowakische Volksdichtung in ungarischer Übersetzung
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730988
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730721
Nach dem "Agnus Dei" der gregorianischen Missa "In Dominicus Adventus et Quadragesimae"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734300
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339356
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586972
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339310
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339341
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339307
5. Stürm, du Winterwind
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742715
6. Minerva "Rogito num tumeat bucca"
for: gemischter Chor (SSAATTB)
Choir score
Item no.: 746976
"Fliegen wird die Taube"
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751834
"Wie nun alles stirbt und endet"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751920
for: String orchestra, percussion
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 783941
3. Puisque tout passe
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733258
"Ei, dass ich doch Potz Velten!"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747092
4. Schundromane lesen: "Das ist das Schönste"
for: Children's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751875
4. An den Flamingo "Flamingo, ich kann dir nicht trauen"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751932
from the musical fairytale "Pollicino"
for: Orchestra
Einzelstimme Tenorkrummhorn
Item no.: 783711
4. Zu Hause "Wenn der Abend winkt"
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 752201
Volkslieder-Zyklus vom Mittelmeer, aus "Lied der Völker"
for: gemischter Chor a cappella (SATB) oder mit Instrumental-Ensemble (Flöte, Klarinette in B, Violine, Kontrabass, Gitarre, Schlagzeug)
Choir score
Item no.: 742589
for: String orchestra
Single part Viola
Item no.: 784684
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751852
4. Rondell "Eur Augenpaar"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1642017
1. True Love - Wahre Liebe
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746965
1. Engel haben Himmelslieder
for: Männerchor (TTBB) und Kinderchor (SMez) oder Frauenchor (SA)
Choir score
Item no.: 738006
for: Orchestra
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 784905
1. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern 2. Vater unser im Himmelreich
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751561
2. Joseph, lieber Joseph mein
for: Männerchor (TBB) und Kinderchor (SMez)
Choir score
Item no.: 742651
"Hohe, feierliche Nacht"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751729
4. Alter Spruch "Ich leb und weiß nit wie lang"
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751841
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 779786
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733262
8. Christkindleins Wiegenlied "O Jesulein zart"
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733346
Es ist ein altes Wort / Ein rechter Mann
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 743279
1. Morgenlied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 737934
5. Mit Lust tret ich in diesen Tanz (16 Jh.)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 736209
for: Orchestra
Single part Horn 2
Item no.: 784893
(Volkslied, 17. Jahrhundert)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 737940
Spielmusik für 3 Violinen zur solistischen oder chorischen Verwendung im Unterricht unter Berücksichtigung der verschiedenen Lehrmethoden.
for: 3 violins
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 731273
Spielmusik für 3 Violinen zur solistischen oder chorischen Verwendung im Unterricht unter Berücksichtigung der verschiedenen Lehrmethoden.
for: 3 violins
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 743721