“Where words fail, music speaks.” Hans Christian Andersen, Danish Author
What do we mean by “Classical Music”? There are classics in every artistic discipline, and music is no exception. Here at Stretta, you can find sheet music and scores from all periods of music history, and all musical forms! If you would like to know more about the meaning and origin of the term “Classical Music”, click here:
The term classical music, in a broader sense, separates what is often called “Serious Music” from Music for Entertainment and Folk Music . Classical music encompasses all periods of modern history, driven by Western composers from the Medieval Period, through the Baroque and Romantic Periods, to the modern classical music of today.
In a more narrow sense, The Classical Period means the historical period of classical music from around 1750 to 1800. It was a long period of musical development, from “Pre-Classical”, to “ Musical Sensibility”, through to “Music of the Enlightenment”. Baroque tonality continued to develop and transform, and became more complex, perfectly demonstrated through the music of the three“ Viennese Classics” Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. There was a departure from figured bass and counterpoint, and a move towards clearly defined melody and accompaniment. Many important musical works, such as the symphony and the string quartet developed, and really came into their own in the classical period, and classical music itself also began to be more and more accessible, moving out of the court and church, and into the public eye.
In Ancient Rome, the term “classicus” was reserved for a citizen in the highest tax bracket. In a figurative sense, something exemplary or immaculate is called ’classic’, a good literary example being the ’Weimar Classics’ of Schiller and Goethe. One of the highest of accolades, being named a ’classic’, is almost always awarded posthumously, an artist is very rarely referred to as a ’classic’ during their lifetime.
Opera Vocal Score Series
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1018356
Internationales Symposion Basel 2001
Veröffentlichungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung 9
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 172808
Critical Commentary for BA 9030, TP 930, BA 9033 and TP 933
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Book (critical commentary)
Item no.: 692982
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 343308
Liriche per baritono e basso
for: Voice (bass/baritone), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1595935
Kantate zum 15. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 673155
Liriche per soprano
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1595938
Ed. Critica H. Colin Slim - Riduzione Per Canto E Pianoforte. Introduzione Italiano, Inglese
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 338645
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 389766
Voice and piano
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 611531
Unterrichtsmaterial
for: Piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1161986
A One-Act Opera for Young People
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 901792
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 606286
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for: Voice, piano
Piano/Vocal
Item no.: 1026341
for horn (2017/2018)
for: Horn
Music score
Item no.: 1541800
Violin Grade 1-3
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 294725
kleine Stücke für kleine Gitarren-Anfänger
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 327125
Introduction et Variations concertants
for: Cello, guitar
Score, Parts
Item no.: 739935
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1612334
Kurze Repertoire- oder Konzertstücke
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 188162
Dowani 3 Tempi Play Along
for: Flute
Music score, CD
Item no.: 481954
Hugo Wolf Kritische Gesamtausgabe
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 417813
Wissenschaftlichen Ausgabe mit Fingersätzen und analytischen Texten
for: Classical guitar
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 766962
Dessus, Volume 1
für Sopran und Klavier
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 664720
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 203049
Cantata for the 15th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: Voice (soprano), trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232993
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 346649
for: Voice (high/medium), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 764779
Original Works and Arrangements
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 634676
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 268899
for: 2 soloists (SBar), narrator, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 113087
Solo Works by Female Composers of the Nineteenth Century
for: Piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 774949
A 21st-century completion of Bach's Orgelbüchlein
Volume 4: Christian Life and Conduct (Chorales 87 - 113)
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 674209
Oratorium in drei Akten für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 631238
Piano Method
for: Piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 316207
10 Strauss favourites arranged for solo violin with backing track CD
for: Violin
Music score, CD
Item no.: 612625
for: Voice (medium), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 676196
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 476962
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 481631
easy arragements for children's ensemble
for: Flexible ensemble (2 melodic instruments (C/B-flat), cello [double bass/bassoon], piano; percussion ad lib.)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 192416
for: Trumpet
Music score
Item no.: 206328
for: Flute Duo
Buch
Item no.: 279977
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 176965
for: Violin, cello
Ensemble score
Item no.: 395542
for: Flute
Music lesson book
Item no.: 100816
in 3 Books
Volume 2: 20 very difficult studies
for: Trumpet [flugelhorn/cornet]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 240452
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 190706
Text with musical examples
Music lesson book (spiral binding)
Item no.: 290100