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: Concert band
Score, Parts
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Hawkes Pocket Scores
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Wind Band
Score, Parts
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Adagietto Symphony N°5
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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Symphony of a Thousand
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Piano reduction
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Oper in neun Bildern (in zwei Teilen)
Text nach Franz Kafka eingerichtet von Boris Blacher und Heinz von Cramer
for: Voices, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 680808
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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op. 19, GA/CE A2c część druga - wersja pierwotna (faksymile)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (facsimile hardcover)
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for: Brass band
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Klassik
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Book
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Score, Parts
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Music score
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Book
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Score
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for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
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Transcriptions, arrangements and
cadenzas
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Music score
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with ossias from the 1948 manuscript edition.
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for: Clarinet, string orchestra, harp, piano
Score
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The New Commonwealth
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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March
Score, Parts
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para Instrumentos de Viento
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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53 Studies on Etudes of Frederic Chopin and other Chopin Arrangements
for: Piano
Music score
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Study score
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Partitur und Stimmen
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Score, Parts
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Studienpartitur
Study score
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Details – Zusammenhänge
Book (Hardcover)
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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Score, Parts
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Belwin Concert Band
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Score, Parts
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Ballett in drei Akten
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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für Violine, Streicher und Orgel bearbeitet von Respighi
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Set of parts
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Konzertwerk
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Score, Parts
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Konzertwerk
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Score, Parts
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Choral Square Dance from The Tender Land
for: Wind Band and Mixed Choir [SATB]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 154849
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Vocal Ensemble
Score
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Combined GB3031 and GB6332
for: Flute
Music score
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Ein lyrisch-phantastisches Spiel in zwei Aufzügen nach Aristophanes op. 30op. 30
Piano reduction
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for: Oboe, horn, piano (trio)
Score, Parts
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for: Brass band
Score, Parts
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