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.
Tone Poem
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391665
Sämtliche Orgelwerke 7/2
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Organ
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 466836
for: Organ
Item no.: 175683
für tiefe Singstimme und Klavierop. 50
for: Voice (low), piano
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for: Piano, Voice and Flute
Score, Parts
Item no.: 346249
Concerto after old folksongs
for: Bratsche und kleines Orchester
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 754603
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 284628
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Alto saxophone, string orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 558203
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 177969
for: 2 pianos
Ensemble score
Item no.: 336617
Zyklus von vier Stücken in Form einer Sonate
for: Organ
Item no.: 462552
Edition Schott
for: 2 treble recorders (duet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 749611
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 685207
Waltz for Violine and Piano
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 100696
für Klavier zu 4 Händen
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 378924
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 564570
for: Clarinet, piano
Sheet music
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for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 324343
(12 Danzas españolas, op. 37/2)
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2706
for four Cellos
for: 4 cellos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 164031
for: 3 soloists (SABar), mixed choir (SATB), children's choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392558
for: Violin, piano
Score
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for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Complete (Mel Bay)
Vol. 1
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 299392
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 404224
Kleine Kantate
for: für Tenor, Bariton, Männerchor (oder 3 Männerstimmen) und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 113340
for: Piano, orchestra
Book
Item no.: 197743
for: Violin
Music score
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1st - 7th Position
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 199909
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 194283
for: Trumpet, piano, string orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 224597
für Violoncello und Orchester Nr. 1 (3. Fassung)H 196 III
for: Cello, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
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Cantiones profanae
for: Soli (STBar), gemischter Chor (SATB), Kinderchor, 2 Klaviere und Schlagzeug
Score
Item no.: 754453
for: Clarinet, String Quartet and Piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 182678
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 261198
für Gesang, Kinderstimmen, Frauenchor, Harfe und Streicher
Studienpartitur
for: CHORMUSIK FRAUEN- + KINDER-CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG GEISTLICH EINZELN
Study score
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Klassik
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 156766
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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arranged for Organ
for: Organ
Music score
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Cantiones profanae (1936) – Reduced version for two pianos and percussion (1956)
Score (= Piano part)
for: 3 soloists (SABar), mixed choir (SATB), children's choir, 2 pianos, percussion
Score
Item no.: 351730
for: Piano
Score
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for: Clarinet, piano
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for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Piano
Music score
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34 pieces by Esenvalds, Dubra and others
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 641954
for: Narrator, flexible ensemble (school orchestra); children's choir ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 227851
Über 40 Operetten- und Filmerfolge
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
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for: Clarinet, cello, piano
Score, Parts
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