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.
Dix versets dans les modes grégoriens / Deux petites pièces dans le style Médiéval
for: Organ manuals [harmonium]
Music score
Item no.: 262355
for: Guitar
Score
Item no.: 365514
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 659694
for piano to 4 hands
for: Piano 4 hands
Single edition
Item no.: 732602
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 367354
for: Violin, viola, cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 108740
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 108805
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 486282
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 191719
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 762847
for: Voice (medium), piano
[englisch]
Item no.: 120680
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 605430
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 108917
Score
Item no.: 381861
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 315684
Music Of Our Time
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 352472
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 197790
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 465880
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 107217
for: Organ
Item no.: 142848
for: Oboe, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 254952
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 585160
for: Piano
Item no.: 176099
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 657967
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 460392
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 107557
for: Symphonic school orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 658513
für Bassklarinette
for: Bass clarinet
Buch
Item no.: 1541858
for violin solo
for: Violin
Single edition
Item no.: 750766
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 609825
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 184126
for: Cello, concert band
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 136987
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 369663
for: Clarinet, bass clarinet, double bass clarinet
Score
Item no.: 678538
for: Trombone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 325466
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 609782
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Set of parts
Item no.: 211618
for: 3 or 4 Flutes
Score, Parts
Item no.: 101018
for: Piano 4 hands
Sheet music
Item no.: 1561074
for: Piano
Item no.: 381846
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 604432
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1640578
for one-sided drums with or without jangles
(für einseitige Trommeln mit oder ohne Schellen)
for: Hand drum
Music score
Item no.: 228017
for: für gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orgel
Item no.: 427742
for female voice and piano
after poems from Kazimiera Illakowicz
for: Female voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 275544
for: Soloists, choir, children's choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1042887
for: Recorder
Book
Item no.: 306816
for high voice and harp
for: Voice, harp
Music score
Item no.: 120668
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