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.
Reduced Version
for: 2 solo voices (MezBar), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ; trumpet, harp, kettle drums ad lib.
Choir score
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für Orgel
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Music score
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Mexican serenata
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for: Oboe, clarinet, bassoon
Score
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Sheet music
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Russische Musik der Moderne
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Chester Woodwind Series
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Music score
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op. 99
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Book
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for two pianos
for: Piano, orchestra
Piano reduction (2 piano's)
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op. 11
for: Cello, piano
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de "La vida breve"
for: Violin, piano
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''Karol Szymanowski - Works'' ed. by T. Chylińska, GA/CE B9 prepared by B. Konarska
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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für Altblockflöte oder Flöte und Klavier oder Streichquartett
for: Treble recorder [flute], piano
Piano reduction
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Ballet Chanté
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Klavierauszug
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for: Bassoon, string quintet [string orchestra]
Piano reduction, solo part
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Corrected Edition 1997
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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2 Copies needed to perform
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Piano reduction
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Reconstituées par Maurice Duruflé
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Music score
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for Viola And Piano
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
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für Violoncello und Klavier
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Score, part
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for recorder orchestra
The Recorder Orchestra
for: BFL ENSEMBLE (SAAATTBGBFL)
Score, Set of parts
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op. 97
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For orchestra
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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aus "Vier kleine Präludien und Fugen für die Orgel" (1928)
for: Organ
Music score
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Great Performer's Edition
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2 Performance scores
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Piano score, solo part
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This piano part is also for use with the following alternative versions:
Violin, Viola, Clarinet, Cor Anglais, Bassoon, Bassethorn, Eb Saxophone and Tuba.
for: Melody instrument, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
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''Karol Szymanowski - Works'' ed. by T. Chylińska, GA/CE B7
for: Piano
Music score
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Highlights aus "Die Csárdásfürstin", "Gräfin Mariza", "Der Zigeunerprimas", "Die Zirkusprinzessin", etc.
bearbeitet für Klavier, Gesang und optionales Instrumentalensemble
for: Voice, piano
Piano score
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in Erinnerung an Adolph Koldofsky
1978 corrected reprint
for: Violin, piano
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Score and Parts
for: 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
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Study Score 987
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Study score
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10 virtuose Stücke
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Music score
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Book
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Volume 1: Sonatas 1–5
Russian Piano Classics (Authentic Edition)
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Sheet music
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3 Vortragsstücke
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Music score
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Edition Schott
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A sonata for two clarinets - one in Bb and one in A.
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Ensemble score
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7 pièces
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für 2 Violinen, 2 Violen und 2 Violoncello
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos (sextet)
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