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.
für Posaune solo
for: Trombone
Item no.: 170693
3. Das Täubchen: "Ei sieh, du holdes Täubchen"GeWV 67
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204728
Abendlied "Schweigend breitet seine Schwingen"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204716
Madrigal "Gestern fuhr ich Fische fangen"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204680
3. Wolkenloser Tag "Wie es war, so ist es"
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204673
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.: 204511
6 Lieder
for: Medium Voice or Children's Choir and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 198590
For Brass Ensemble
for: Bläserensemble
Score
Item no.: 1624109
Gegenwartsmusik
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1624053
Gegenwartsmusik
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 1623987
A Prelude For An Auspicious Occasion
for: Trumpet, organ
Score, part
Item no.: 1623986
For Ensemble
for: Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1623979
Mezzo-Sopran, Klarinette, Violine, Violoncello und Klavier
Partitur
for: Mezzo-Sopran, Klarinette, Violine, Violoncello und Klavier
Score
Item no.: 1624817
Motette nach Psalmdichtungen
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 196371
Peters Contemporary Library
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 654917
für Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette und Streichtrio (1984)
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello (sextet)
Score
Item no.: 644978
Single part Viola
Item no.: 875356
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 165063
Peters Contemporary Library
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1658875
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyrics
Item no.: 137021
for: Piano
Item no.: 165491
for: Piano
Item no.: 157291
Foxtrott
Schwierigkeitsgrad: M
for: Accordion
Single part(n)
Item no.: 395325
for: Flute
Single part
Item no.: 130548
Musica Rara
for: Oboe, piano
Klavierauszug, Solostimme, Digitalartikel (AODP)
Item no.: 1639558
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 581010
for: 4 melodic instruments
Ensemble score
Item no.: 413754
for: Piano
Item no.: 1632836
St. Louis Fanfare
for: Brass ensemble (5 parts)
Score
Item no.: 1690214
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1678398
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1684538
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1678408
Sheet music
Item no.: 1640146
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra [organ]
Single part Organ
Item no.: 748635
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1204853
7. Tityrus "Amarylli, strepit"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751794
op.81
for: Clarinet, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 683408
for: Symphonic orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 1174495
for: Voice
Choir score
Item no.: 1174660
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1139113
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 852985
Klassik
for: 2 String Quartets and 2 Double Basses
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1103870
3. Psalm 46 "Gott ist unsre Zuversicht"
for: Mixed choir (SSAATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742539
for: Cello, Flute, Guitar, Mezzo-Soprano, Percussion, Soprano
Buch
Item no.: 1174405
from the musical fairytale "Pollicino"
for: Orchestra
Einzelstimme Baßxylophon
Item no.: 783714
for: Flute, clarinet, violin, cello (quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1105933
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