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.
Collection Nobuya Sugawa "Saxy Ever"
for: 4 Saxophone
Item no.: 1586358
Violine
for: Violin
Item no.: 1586308
For Two Antiphonal Trumpets
for: 2 trumpets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1626716
For Two Pianos
for: 2 pianos
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1626633
For 2 B-Flat Trumpets and Organ
for: 2 trumpets, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1626440
Mezzo-Sopran, Klarinette, Violine, Violoncello und Klavier
Partitur und Stimmen
for: Mezzo-Sopran, Klarinette, Violine, Violoncello und Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1624818
for: 3-10 Spieler
Aufführungsmaterial
Item no.: 1586117
Item no.: 1582618
op. 38
for: 4 Schlagzeuge
Set of parts
Item no.: 1539151
op. 46
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 1539052
Simrock Original Edition
for: 4 violins
Score
Item no.: 1340505
PARTITUR
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1632839
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1211944
für Sopran, Violine und Klavier
Violine
for: Violin
Single part (Violin solo)
Item no.: 1199466
Geistliche Abendmusik
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Alt oder Bass solo, Orgel oder Cembalo und Streicher
Choir score
Item no.: 1546378
2. Nachts / 3. Begegnung
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1546238
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 873
for: Soloists [SMezA] and Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 898295
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 896272
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 838
for: Strings and 2 Horns
Study score
Item no.: 902290
Sudien und Übungen
for: 11 Instruments
Score
Item no.: 901163
Oper in 10 Szenen
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 910466
for: Timpano, Percussion and Strings
Piano reduction
Item no.: 906532
Studien in moderner Spieltechnikop. 43
for: String orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1545995
for: String Orchestra and opt.Violin or Viola and Piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 916905
for: 3 guitars, cello, double bass
Set of parts
Item no.: 1552997
for: Voice (soprano), chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1552989
Nr. 2 aus "2 Stücke für gemischten Chor"op. 21
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1135367
for: Children's choir, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1136573
for: für Singstimmen ( 1-2 stimmig) und Klavier
Item no.: 1135446
for shakuhachi, koto and sangen
for: Shakuhachi, Koto und Sangen
Conductor score
Item no.: 1545529
for: 4 brass instruments
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1545476
for the Birthday of Prince Charles
for: Blechbläser
Score
Item no.: 1545450
for: String orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1149171
Suite for Strings
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1148501
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1622695
großes Orchester
Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1622447
for: Concert band
Study score
Item no.: 1611379
to words by revolutionary poets of the late 19th - early 20th centuryop. 88
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1610871
Violoncello, Klavier und Percussion
Partitur
for: Violoncello, Klavier und Percussion
Score
Item no.: 1623601
and string quartet
score and parts
for: Clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1632827
A Musical Portrait for Piano and Percussion
for: Klavier und Percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1624435
Flöte, Fagott und Violoncello
Partitur und Stimmen
for: Flöte, Fagott und Violoncello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1624423
For Viola and Marimba
for: Viola und Marimbaphon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1624265
For Either Women, Men, Or Mixed Voices
for: 3 Stimmen
Choir score
Item no.: 1625623
Gegenwartsmusik
Study score
Item no.: 1622243
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