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: Double bass, percussion
Score
Item no.: 300136
for: Violin, guitar
Score
Item no.: 1115021
for: Oboe, chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 254844
for: Orchestra
Study score
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7 Etudes, No. 3
for: Cello
Music score
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for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 556771
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 108919
for: Harp
Item no.: 558297
for: Cello, orchestra
Study score
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for: Piano
Item no.: 266111
for: Organ
Item no.: 372696
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 297697
Lyric book
Item no.: 159649
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [4 voices (SATB)]
Choir score
Item no.: 173909
for Flute and Cello
for: Flute, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 682891
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 315518
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 108894
for: 2 cellos
Ensemble score
Item no.: 662675
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 637705
for: Alto flute, cello, piano
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 314573
for: Flute, Cello or Viola and Piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 163943
for: Violin, Hurdy-gurdy (wheel fiddle)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 256186
for: Klavier, Bratsche und Heckelphon (Tenorsaxophon)
Set of parts
Item no.: 288379
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 103079
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 109181
Anthem (from Sunrise Mass)
for mixed chorus (strings ad lib)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; string quartet ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 634034
for: Percussion quartet (4 players)
Score
Item no.: 381878
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 207439
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 197865
for: Piccolo, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 329287
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 265604
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 232394
Die fröhlichen Musikanten/ The merry musicians
Serenade
for: Clarinet, violin, viola, cello
Set of parts
Item no.: 745339
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 362012
for: für 3 Klaviere, 3 Harfen und Schlagzeugspieler
Study score
Item no.: 328654
for: Double bass, piano
Item no.: 471768
for: Piano
Item no.: 168438
for: Flute
Item no.: 298094
for: Cello
Item no.: 353611
for: GES-H (S) VL VC KLAV
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 108949
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 198586
Skizzen nach Goya
for: Viola, cello, double bass
3 Performance scores
Item no.: 447126
for: Chamber ensemble
Study score
Item no.: 487492
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 142885
for: für Klavier
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for: für Orgel
Item no.: 113428
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