The classical modern period, 1900-1945, saw a great deal of cultural change, and many different composers helped shape the musical landscape of the early 20th century. Browse our sheet music and scores, take a look at our Classical Modern Sheet Music Downloads, and explore the wide world of classical modernism with Stretta Music today
The horrors of World War I brought about such a shift in perspective, that art would never be the same again. The cultural and social changes that had already begun at the end of the 19th century led to new prospects, which were mirrored and expressed through various innovative artistic movements, them sum of which is called Classic Modernism.
During the 20th century, the boundaries of tonality were stretched so far that one could no longer speak of tonal music. The most striking examples of this are polytonality, employed by composers like Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, and Charles Ives, and to an even greater extent serialism, the twelve-tone music of Arnold Schönberg and his students.
The rise of nationalism in the late 19th century sparked a great interest in rediscovering folk music. New technical developments, such as the invention of the phonograph, also made it easier to document and collect folk music. Great folk Pioneers were the Romanian composer Béla Bartók, the Czech composer Leo Janáček, the Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály, and the Australian-American composer Percy Grainger.
This development led to a new idiom within classical music, both melodically and rhythmically. Good examples of the integration of folklore into classical modern music are the melodies from Janáček’s Jenufa, which are based on the rhythm and intonation of the Czech language, and Bartók’s Second Violin Rhapsody.
Expressionists aimed to capture true emotions without glossing over them. Above all, they looked at the subjective inner world, in contrast to the outer world, and left all traditional ideals of beauty behind.
Expressionist music is characterised by dissonance, extreme dynamics and great contrasts in colour, pitch and effect. In music, expressionism is generally associated with the Second Viennese School, founded by Arnold Schönberg and his students Anton Webern and Alban Berg, and the dodecaphonic, twelve-tone technique they used, known as serialism.
Examples of expressionist music include Schönberg’s Erwartung, 1909, and Berg’s Wozzeck, 1922.
Another classical modern departure from the ideals of the Romantic Period was to draw on forms and tropes of the Baroque Period and the Classical Period. This was expressed in the use of traditional musical forms, as in Martinů’s Concerto da Camara, 1937, the use of traditional instrumentation, as in Manuel de Falla’s Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet & Cello, 1926, and also in the use of thematic material from the 18th and 19th centuries, such as in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, 1920.
for: Oboe, Bassoon and Harpsichord
Set of parts
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Klassik
for: Oboe and String Ensemble
Score, Parts
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Klassik
for: Cello, piano
Score
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Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
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Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Mixed Ensemble
Score
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Klassik
for: Chamber ensemble
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Klassik
for: Chamber ensemble
Buch
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for: Contrabass and Orchestra
Buch
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for: Women's Choir
Choir score
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Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
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Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
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Originale Unterhaltungsmusik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
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Violin and Cello parts
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
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Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
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Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
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Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
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Entspricht der 3. Saxophonstimme.
for: Small wind band
Single part Alto saxophone 2
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for: Small wind band
Single part Trombone 1, 2 (C, bass clef)
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for: Small wind band
Single part Flugelhorn 2 (B-flat)
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Der 1. Mai
for: Choir, orchestra
Study score
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From Friday Afternoons
for: Unison Choir and Piano
Choir score
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Woodwind ensemble
Einzelstimme
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for: Woodwind ensemble
Einzelstimme
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for: Marching band
Score
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Wagner Faure' Brahms Debussy Strauss Franck
for: Piano
Score
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for: Cello, organ
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for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Partie De Harpe
for: Harp
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Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
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Klassik
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
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Pour Deux Violons Alto Et Violoncelle
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
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for: Choir
Choir score
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for: Piano
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Geistliche Musik
for: Alto Voice and Mixed Choir [SATB]
Choir score
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for instruments at pleasure
for: 4 Identically Tuned Instruments
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Omaggio a Bartok
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
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for: Piano
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for: Brass band
Score
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Konzertwerk
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
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Gradus ad Symphoniam
for: school orchestra
Single part Violin 1
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