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 Orchestra Da Camera (1985 - 86) - Partitura
for: Chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1548646
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Opera
Score
Item no.: 259979
Partitura
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1547952
Rappresentazioni Liriche In Un Atto Di Romano Amidei
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1548089
36 volumes in package
Works by Hungarian composers
EMB Contemporary Music sorozat kötetei egy csomagban
Kortárs magyar szerzők darabjai. 36 kotta
36 music scores
Item no.: 850628
The Bohuslav Martinu Complete Edition VI/2/1
for: Sopran solo, Tenor solo, Bariton solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Flöten (2), Klarinetten (2), Trompeten (3), Posaunen (2), Pauke, Schlagzeug, Harfe, Klavier, Violinen (2), Viola, Cello, Kontrabass
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 639238
Oper für 5 Sänger, Chor und Ensemble
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 475608
"Leningrad"op. 60
for: Orchestra
Partitur
Item no.: 1610879
Per Solisti E Orchestra - Partitura
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1548312
for soprano, tenor, baritone, bass, two choirs, organ and orchestra
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1553077
Sovereign Series
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1210939
Sovereign Series
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 881659
B-Auflage, ohne Signatur
Item no.: 199219
(1995)
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 778757
Tema Con Variazioni Per 23 Strumenti (1994) - Partitura
for: Mixed Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1548182
for: 5 Harps
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1137069
Opéra en 3 actes et 8 tableaux
Acte 2 – Tableau 6 (La prêche aux oiseaux)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 687078
Amstel Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1208834
Oper in 3 Akten und einem Epilog
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1552987
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 456410
A-Auflage, von beiden Künstlern handsigniert
Item no.: 199218
Solo Spectrum
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1211193
Solo Spectrum
for: Piano, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 890782
after Praetorius
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668808
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 481825
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 1171322
Per soli, coro, due ensemble a doppio coro e live electronics (1998)
for: Mixed ensemble
Score
Item no.: 776845
Per soli, coro femminile, 2 gruppi strumentali a doppio coro, due tube in sala, ampli.
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 775896