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.
March
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Concert Band and Vocal Soloist
Score, Parts
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for: Flute
Music score
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for: Woodwind ensemble
Einzelstimme
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for: Woodwind ensemble
Einzelstimme
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for: Concert band
Einzelstimme
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Concert band
Einzelstimme
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Final Version 1906
additional part
for: Soloist (alto), boys' choir, women's choir, orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 781361
Highlights aus "Die Csárdásfürstin", "Gräfin Mariza", "Der Zigeunerprimas", "Die Zirkusprinzessin", etc.
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices); vocals ad lib.
Single part Accordion
Item no.: 690502
Vergessene Kammermusik – wieder entdeckt
for: String orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
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Vergessene Kammermusik – wieder entdeckt
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Violin 2 (orchestral part)
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for: Marching band
Score, Parts
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Single part Clarinet
Item no.: 945253
for: Guitar
Music score
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for: Concert band
Einzelstimme
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for: Concert band
Einzelstimme
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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Score, Parts
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Singpartitur, Spielpartitur
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großes Orchester
Studienpartitur
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Study score
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for: Concert band
Study score
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to words by revolutionary poets of the late 19th - early 20th centuryop. 88
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
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op. 12
for: Piano
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for: Sopran-Blockflöte, Alt-Blockflöte
Stimme
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for: Voice, piano
Music score
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Nr. 2 aus "2 Stücke für gemischten Chor"op. 21
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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op. 65
for: für Orchester
Taschenpartitur
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for: Children's choir, organ
Choir score
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Philharmonia Taschenpartituren
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Study score
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3rd & 4th Horns In F
for: Concert band
Einzelstimme
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for: Violin, piano
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Sudien und Übungen
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for: Concert band
Set of parts
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Lyrisches Drama in einem Akt
for: Opera
Study score
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for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
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Highlights aus "Die Csárdásfürstin", "Gräfin Mariza", "Der Zigeunerprimas", "Die Zirkusprinzessin", etc.
1. Stimme
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices); vocals ad lib.
Part 1 in C (flute)
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Choralkantate
for: Violin
Single part Violin
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Messa di Gloria
Messa di Gloria
for: Soli TBar, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Piccoloflöte, Flöten (2), Oboen (2), Klarinetten (2), Fagotte (2), Hörner (2), Trompeten (2), Posaunen (3), Ophikleide, Pauken, Violinen (2), Viola, Cello, Kontrabass, [Hörner (2), Harfe]
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
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Piano reduction
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for: mittlere Stimme und Gitarre
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for: Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette, Fagott und Orchester
Study score
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for: gemischter Chor (SATB) a cappella oder mit Flöte und Klavier ad libitum
Partitur
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