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.
Russische Musik der Moderne
Boosey and Hawkes Pocket Scores
for: Piano, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1688097
for: Tuba, piano
Item no.: 1688042
for: Balalaika, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1696774
1969/'78
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 1696592
Horn, Posaune und Tuba
Partitur und Stimmen
for: KAMMERMUSIK BLECHBLASINSTRUMENTE QUINTETTE
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1671066
Muzika Ensemble Music
for: Flexible Instrumentation
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1671844
Klavier
Spielnoten
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1670178
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1670123
G. Schirmer Band-Orchestra
for: Concert band [youth concert band]
Score
Item no.: 1690010
Arranged by George Strivens
for: Voice (soprano), violin, horn (F) [cello], piano
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 1678225
H. 193
for: Trumpet (C), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1696824
aus "Neue Spanische Tänze" op. 65 (Nr. 3)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1855
aus "20 Duette für zwei Violinen", op. 55 (Nr. 11 und 12)
for: 2 violins
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 2914
aus: "Quatre Petites Mélodies"
für Klarinette und Klavier
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4046
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 4157
aus: Zehn Orgelstücke, op. 25
Leipzig, 1888
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 6317
Complete Etudes 3 volume box set
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1349807
für Orchester
Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1344020
aus "Humoreske Bagateller", op. 11 (Nr. 2)
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 3605
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1072832
Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 173363
für Orchester
Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 172049
Marsch / March / Marche op. 239
RUNDEL Julius-Fucik-Edition
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 213609
for: Salon orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 228312
Messe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 228972
for: Cello, piano
Reprint
Item no.: 215820
einstimmigen Chor und Orgel
Das Kindlein das Maria hält
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG GEISTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 248280
for: Organ
Item no.: 186224
Konzertstück (Verlagskopie) (Editor's copy)
for: Accordion
Item no.: 180605
from "Suite Española" op. 47
Spanish Brass Repertoire
for: 5 brass winds
Score, Parts
Item no.: 472340
from "The Red Poppy"
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1329623
for: Flute ensemble
Book
Item no.: 1329673
Klassik
for: Double Woodwind Quintet and Double Bass
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1214959
I.-III. Lage
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1629273
Adattamento Per Soli Coro e Orchestra Di Francesco Finotti
for: Choir and Organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 998433
Soli, Chor und Orchester
Studienpartitur
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG GEISTLICH EINZELN
Study score
Item no.: 1344796
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2306
Performance/Accompaniment CD + Split Track CD
CD
Item no.: 856953
für Streichorchester
Studienpartitur
for: String orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1343971
Klassik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1213250
for: SATB, Keyboard [Organ or Piano] or Orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1005133
for: Concert band
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1077987
aus der Operette "Ball der Nationen"
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 788114
for: Choir and Concert Band
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1077876
Aslant in a Brook
Studienpartitur
for: Chamber orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1344989
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 665722
for cello and orchestra
for: Cello, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 733143
for: Tuba (B-flat/E-flat), brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 588153
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