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.
Version for Children's Choir
for: Children's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1677344
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 765816
Walton Choral – Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series
Celebrating 50 Years of Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 638773
Walton Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 664153
Böhmische Hirtenklänge für vier Blockflöten (SATB)
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 414008
Leichte Liedsätze für jede Zeit des Jahres
für gem Chor (Begleitung ad lib)
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 373151
Choral Music of Our Time
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1629797
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652730
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
nach einem Text von Mutter Theresa
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 618163
for mixed chorus a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 620066
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1557392
Ausgezeichnete Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1666884
(Unsere Berge / Our Mountains)
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668283
(Set (2))
for: Choir (1-2 parts), 2 recorders, organ; guitar ad lib.
2 single parts
Item no.: 182105
für mittlere Stimme (Schola, Kantor) und Orgel
for: Voice (medium), organ
Music score
Item no.: 649673
Originaltonart
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 745333
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1664284
Pied Beauty
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1667858
Four Pieces for one recorder player
for: Recorder
Music score
Item no.: 156114
Dieser Artikel wird einzeln nur mit Antikopierpunkt geliefert!
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 634573
Musik für Blechbläser und Tasteninstrumente
in C
for: Brass ensemble, organ [piano/keyboard]
Performance score for winds
Item no.: 667786
Die schönsten Volks- und Kirchenlieder in leichten dreistimmigen Sätzen
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 174154
for: Flute
Score
Item no.: 420336
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 1667862
Michelle Leclerc (†) – Meisterschülerin von Jean Langlais – an der Großen Orgel der Kathedrale Saint-Pierre zu Beauvais (Picardie)
for: Organ
Audio-CD
Item no.: 767963
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 365427
8. Terpsichore "Hilaris Terpsichore ter pede terram"
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652972
O be joyfull in the Lord, all ye lands
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 120787
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 120937
Quatre Motets Pour Un Temps De Penitence, N°1 - Ti
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 107211
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 107213
Faber New Choral Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 172113
No. 1 from Carmina Burana
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 664950
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 278326
Chorus Series Nr. 95
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 362311
Ein Werk nach Goethes Faust
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1209815
Madrigal I nach einem mährischen Volkslied (deutsche Übertragung)
für gemischten Chor (SSATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1670756
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1664726
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 776841
für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 312682
for: 2 KLAV (CEMB/ORG) 4MS
Item no.: 1657418
for: Diatonic accordion
Item no.: 1681336
Geistliche und weltliche Lieder in leichten dreistimmigen Sätzen
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 604691
Die schönsten Volks- und Kirchenlieder in leichten dreistimmigen Sätzen
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 181122
(Vaterland / Fatherland)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668281
für Sprechchor
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 193793
for: Saxophone
Music score
Item no.: 1688519
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653604
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