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.
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1211944
3 Poemes D'A. Suied
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1138218
Score
Item no.: 1174357
for bass clarinet
for: Bass-Klarinette
Item no.: 1544563
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1193812
For Viola and Marimba
for: Viola und Marimbaphon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1624265
an utopic Charon-cantata 2018
for: Orchestra and Mezzo Soprano Voice
Score
Item no.: 1541895
Klassik
for: Flute, String Orchestra and Harpsichord
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1540952
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1622695
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1102756
Klassik
for: Voice
Book
Item no.: 977487
for: Mixed Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1197444
Gegenwartsmusik
Study score
Item no.: 1622243
for: Flute, Harp and String Quartet
Set of parts
Item no.: 1087229
for: Oboe and Mixed Ensemble
Buch
Item no.: 1137836
for: Brass ensemble
Buch
Item no.: 1140858
Flöte, Fagott und Violoncello
Partitur und Stimmen
for: Flöte, Fagott und Violoncello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1624423
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 1174267
Study score
Item no.: 1542517
for: Piano
Study score
Item no.: 1111702
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1531194
Finale
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 864059
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1148517
for: 2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone and Tuba
Buch
Item no.: 1140288
for Piano and Playback 2018
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1541890
Klassik
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 1111805
for: Trumpet
Set of parts
Item no.: 1542837
for: Soprano Voice, Clarinet and Piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 862222
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1174006
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 778310
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1140260
for: Violin
Sheet music
Item no.: 921016
for: Narrator, Children's choir (1-2 parts), mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ; the parish ad lib.
Violin 1, 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689668
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 1174371
for: Opera
Lyrics
Item no.: 1147986
for: Soprano and Bariton Voice, Brass Quartet, Harp and Organ
Score
Item no.: 920913
for voice and alto saxophone
for: Gesang und Alt-Saxophon
Spielpartitur
Item no.: 1544885
Score, Parts
Item no.: 869568
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1145062
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1177871
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