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.
per soprano e orchestra con quartetto d'archi (1991)
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1031270
for Large Ensemble
for: Large Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1587273
Pour 2 Pianos
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 412277
Solo-Konzert
for: Cello, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 259428
for string quartet
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 1542208
for: Narrator, chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 774353
Klassik
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 836710
for: Mixed ensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 833285
for 16 Voices, Whips, and Ensemble
for: Choir and Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1587274
2 Pianos
for: Piano 4 hands
Buch
Item no.: 836314
per soli, cori e orchestra
for: soli, choir and orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 832491
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1548591
für Sopran und Ensemble
for: Voice (soprano), chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 270125
(1990) - Partitura
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1548671
for: Flute, concert band
Set of parts
Item no.: 1023533
Per Violino, Violoncello e Pianoforte
for: Trio
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1548540
Per Voce Femminile E Clarinetto Basso In Sib (1988)
for: Vocal, Bass Clarinet
Score
Item no.: 375391
Bläserkonzerte II
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 104724
Klangmomente
for: Chamber ensemble
Conductor score
Item no.: 1558191
for: Double Bass, 2 Pianos, Percussion
Set of parts
Item no.: 1148634
un Adagio per tre Violino, Clarinetto in La, Pianoforte
for: Violine, Klarinette in A, Klavier
3 Performance scores
Item no.: 642661
Texte zur Musik 1996 bis 2020
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 797196
Brass Band
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595950
for: für 2 Violinen, 2 Violen und 2 Violoncelli
Set of parts
Item no.: 301306
for concert band, piano, harp and percussion
op. 224
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 189277
for: Chor 3 Versionen: a) Gesangschor 4S4A4T4B - b) Sprechchor 8S8A8T8B - c) beide Chöre zusammen
Partitur
Item no.: 308290
Neue Schostakowitsch-Gesamtausgabe, Serie III, Band 46
Mit Kritischem Bericht in russisch und englisch
for: Cello, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 655037
Nr. 5 aus "Pli selon pli" (Portrait de Mallarmé)
for: für Sopran und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 164182
Neu erstellter computergesetzter Klavierauszug ersetzt die Reproduktion des handschriftlichen Originals
for: Voices, chamber ensemble
Piano reduction
Item no.: 634377
for: cello [solo], chamber choir, percussion
Score
Item no.: 1553051
for: für Kammerensemble (2 Violinen,Violoncello, Harmonium und Klavier)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 147082
for: Chor 3 Versionen: a) Gesangschor 4S4A4T4B - b) Sprechchor 8S8A8T8B - c) beide Chöre zusammen
Partitur
Item no.: 1677542
für großes Orchester (1960/1961)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 213904
for: für Sopran und Orchester
Partitur
Item no.: 429608
for: Voice (soprano), chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1161605
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos (sextet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 684182
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 368258
Pour Vlon,Alto,Vcelle Et Piano
for: String Trio and Piano
Buch
Item no.: 491687
Quintet in Five Movements
for: Flute, 2 Violins, Cello and Piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 898183
Intermezzo for Symphonic Band
Quarter Military Band QMB 209
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 888924
Liederspiel nach und mit Heinrich Heine
for: Sprecher, Gesang, Gemischter Chor, Orchester
Score
Item no.: 870018
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 352731
Opera in two acts based on the homonymous tragedy of Euripides
Study score
Item no.: 632222
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1652428
for: Marching band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1010881
for: Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1557807
for: GES-M FL CEMBALO
Item no.: 148980
for: Singstimme (S), Flöte, Klarinette, Violine, Violoncello Klavier 4 Schlagzeug
Score
Item no.: 482906
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