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.
Klassik
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1176866
"Where have you been"
for: Männerchor unisono und Klavier 4-händig oder Orchester
Chorpartitur (= Klavierstimme)
Item no.: 748896
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1557444
The Great Classics
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 883712
Klassik
for: Piano 4 hands
Buch
Item no.: 1175473
Klassik
for: Piano, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 836750
Folk
for: Voice, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105403
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 836954
from Candide
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1212165
Klassik
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 835547
Klassik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 836008
Klassik
for: SATB, Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, Baritone Voice and Piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 836917
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1650677
Chor und Klavier
Chorpartitur
for: Chor und Klavier
Choir score
Item no.: 879938
Epistle from Mass
for: Voice, Speakers and Piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 894453
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 838191
Full Sore
for: Tuba and Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 836238
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1119449
Heft 5
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 695313
Sudien und Übungen
for: Horn
Music score
Item no.: 1212089
Klassik
for: Cello
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1174683
Klassik
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 835544
Gajaneh (Ballett) - Teil I
Chatschaturjan - Gesammelte Werke 007
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 672202
In the Style of the Eighteenth Century
Book
Item no.: 896142
for: Tenor and Orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1211609
No. 4 At the River
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 897717
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1546123
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1582827
Settings from Tennyson's
for: Tenor and Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1211607
from: Six Children's Choruses
for: Female Choir [SSA] a Cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 866053
Ergänzungskatalog
Book
Item no.: 1211586
Klassik
for: Oboe and String Quartet
Score
Item no.: 836138
Klassik
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 839074
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 864474
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 137755
Klassik
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 325359
Klassik
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 324924
(Original for chorus and orchestra)
for: Concert Band/Harmonie and Opt. Choir
Score
Item no.: 155092
Nr. 1 Blauer Sommer
for: Voice (high), piano
Single part(n)
Item no.: 100472
Urtext (erste kritische Ausgabe)
for: Solo voice (alto), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 679032
Lyrisches Drama in 3 Akten
for: Opera
Piano reduction
Item no.: 608948
13. Soldier, Soldier
for: gemischter Chor (SATTBB) mit Soli (SATTBB); Harmonium ad libitum
Chorpartitur mit untergelegtem Klavierauszug
Item no.: 729151
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 768846
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 903436
Klassik
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 839711
De Chambre
for: Cello, piano
Book
Item no.: 268018
for: Soprano Voice and Mixed Choir [SATB]
Choir score
Item no.: 1092546
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 784083
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