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.
from the Merry Widow
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 603907
for: Organ
Item no.: 321157
bearbeitet für Holzbläserensemble ab drei Spielern
Mixed Bag No. 24
for: Flexible wind band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 462600
for: Voice, piano
Music score
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for: Guitar
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 947904
for: 9 Flöten (2 Piccolo/6 Flöten/1 Altflöte)
Music score
Item no.: 761310
for: Piano
Music score
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for: 4 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1073273
for: Violin
Music score
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for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 357628
Operette in drei Akten
Lyric book
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aus "Requiem"
for: für Alt Solo und Orgel
Item no.: 113341
aus dem Oratorium "Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln"
for: für Orgel
Item no.: 113277
Werkeinführungen von D. Stoverock
Students book
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for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1360718
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1360617
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1363069
Variations on an Original Melody
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1611394
Cycle of Five Pieces
Commissioned for the 50th Anniversary of the Eastman School of Music
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1611383
op. 87
for: Piano
Item no.: 1610875
für Gesang (mittel) und Klavier (dt)
for: Voice (medium), piano
Item no.: 1586179
for: 6 cellos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1558958
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1558948
for: Women's choir (SA), mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
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for Violin with Accompaniment of the Piano
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1646585
for: für Gesang und Klavier
Item no.: 1135285
for: für Soli: Sopran, 3 Alt und Chor SSAA
Choir score
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op. 50
Textbuch/Libretto
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for: Piano
Music score
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Charakteristische Skizzeop. 185
for: Piano 4 hands
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for: Piano Duets & Four Hands
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(Militärischer Festmarsch)
for: Piano
Einzelausgabe Klavier
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De Haske Pop Collection
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 869017
for: Concert band
Einzelstimme
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Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 826
for: Piano, orchestra
Study score
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Slowfox
for: Salon orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
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for: Salon orchestra
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für vier Klarinetten (drei Klarinetten und Bassklarinette)
The Clarinettist's Repertoire
for: 4 clarinets
Score, Set of parts
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for: KAMMERMUSIK SONSTIGEBESETZUNGEN GEMISCHTE DUOS
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First Print
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
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for: Cello, piano
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1873-1891
Book (Hardcover)
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Gesamtausgabe
for: für Orchester und gemischten Chor (ohne Text)
Studienpartitur
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for: für Klavier
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op. 31
for: für Violoncello
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for: für Frauenstimme und Klavier
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