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.
on the Introit of the Feast of the Epiphany
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 759812
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 738905
Lyric book
Item no.: 1681411
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307650
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862974
for: 2 cellos [bassoons/double basses]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 163746
for soprano and one or three flutes
EMB Contemporary Music
for: Voice (soprano), flute
Music score
Item no.: 256559
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 321955
for: Recorder, Voice[with Chord Symbols], Soprano [Descant] Recorder
Buch
Item no.: 179918
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 107219
on the Introit of the Feast of the Epiphany
for Organ
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 679269
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 459734
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 256596
pour quatuor de saxophones
for: 4 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1562013
Kantate nach Worten von Josef Weinheber und dem Choral "Macht hoch die Tür" DWV 170
for: Voice (soprano), trumpet, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1656951
for: Piano
Item no.: 397640
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1664284
Vertonung bekannter Weihnachtslieder
Choir score
Item no.: 613812
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Partitur
Item no.: 247528
for: gleiche Stimmen (SMezA)
Choir score
Item no.: 281046
for: Männerchor (TTBB) und Kinderchor (SMez) oder Frauenchor (SA)
Choir score
Item no.: 204227
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 629871
for: Voice (high), piano
Item no.: 610163
for: Voice, 2 violins, viola, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 658875
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 308117
for: Voice
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 867519
for: Big band
Score
Item no.: 170396
for: solo Organ
Buch
Item no.: 902691
for: Singstimme (S), Sprecher, gemischter Chor, Instrument
Score
Item no.: 342668
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ
Score
Item no.: 230819
for: Children's choir [women's choir]
Score
Item no.: 332587
for: Singstimme (B), gemischter Chor Orgel
Score
Item no.: 380824
for: 2-Part Choir, Oboe, Soprano, String Instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 859567
for: Singstimme (S), Klavier / Orgel
Item no.: 380829
for: Unison Voice, Organ Accompaniment
Buch
Item no.: 578117
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 120657
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 669280
for: Women's choir (8 parts), organ
Score
Item no.: 693378
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 646287
for: Organ
7 music scores
Item no.: 868840
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Score
Item no.: 288531
für gem Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 378149
for: 2 and 3 Equal Voices
Book
Item no.: 993443
for: Soli, Kinderchor, Sprecher und kleines Orchester
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 242037
for: Soli, Kinderchor, Sprecher und kleines Orchester
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 242039
for: Soli, Kinderchor, Sprecher und kleines Orchester
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 242038
from A Ceremony of Carols op. 28
for: Mixed choir (SATB), harp [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 493764
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