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Classical Modernism – Sheet Music & Scores

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

Post-War Change

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.

Beyond Tonality

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.

Return to Folk

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.

Expressionism & Serialism

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.

Neoclassicism

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.

Important Classical Modern Composers

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Paul Hindemith

Frau Musica op. 45/1

for: Chor (MezBar) mit Flöte und Streichern

Single part Violin 1

Item no.: 1546440

4.95  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Harald Genzmer

Vom Abenteuer der Freude GeWV 49

for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), orchestra

Single part Violin 2

Item no.: 1546223

4.95  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Paul Hindemith

Music of Mourning

for: Viola [violin/cello], string orchestra

Double bass (orchestral part)

Item no.: 580172

5.70  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Paul Hindemith

Old Irish Air

"The harp that once thro' Tarra's halls"

for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [harp, string orchestra]

Double bass (orchestral part)

Item no.: 375980

3.95  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Henk Badings

Trio-Cosmos 12

for: 3 violins

Single part Violin 1

Item no.: 127560

6.20  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Fred Raymond

Komm, trink und lach am Rhein

for: Concert band

Single part Trombone 3

Item no.: 201531

1.55  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 1–3 weeks.
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Engelbert Humperdinck

Hänsel und Gretel

for: Orchestra

Single part Violin 2

Item no.: 201174

1.55  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 1–3 weeks.
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Enrique Granados

Andaluza

for: 3 recorders (SAT), piano

Treble recorder (single part)

Item no.: 355069

2.85  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Ralph Vaughan Williams

March Past of the Kitchen Utensils

for: Blockflöten (SAT), Schlagwerk und Klavier; Glockenspiel und Xylophon ad libitum

Single part Percussion

Item no.: 354837

4.15  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Rudolf Herzer

Hoch Heidecksburg! op. 10

for: Salon orchestra

Single part Violin 2

Item no.: 301954

5.70  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Heinrich Sutermeister

Gloriola

for: gemischter Chor (SMezAB), Streicher und Klavier

Single part Violin 2

Item no.: 241737

3.60  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 1–3 weeks.
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John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa March Collection

for: Bariton-Saxophon

Single part

Item no.: 881901

14.40  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 1–3 weeks.
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John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa March Collection

for: Pauke und Stabspiel

Single part

Item no.: 874414

14.40  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 1–3 weeks.
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Karl Marx

Deutsche Liedmesse (1949)

Single part Violin 2

Item no.: 876020

12.40  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Engelbert Humperdinck

Hänsel und Gretel Potpourri

for: Accordion orchestra

Single part Accordion 4

Item no.: 1596208

4.65  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Béla Bartók

Sechs Tänze in bulgarischen Rhythmen

aus Mikrokosmos

for: String orchestra

Viola (orchestral part)

Item no.: 1018300

5.10  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Paul Dukas

The Sorcerer's Apprenctice

Scherzo after a Ballad by Goethe
In cooperation with Edition Eulenburg

for: Symphonic orchestra

Bassoon (orchestral part)

Item no.: 1544028

6.70  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Jerome David Kern

Ol' Man River (Showboat)

for: Accordion orchestra

Single part Electronium 1, 2

Item no.: 243826

3.30  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Hermann Dostal

Fliegermarsch

Single part Horn 2 (E-flat)

Item no.: 443639

2.40  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Hermann Ambrosius

Suite Nr 6

Single part Mandolin 2

Item no.: 290425

3.10  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Hermann Erdlen

Taenzerische Suite

for: Accordion orchestra

Single part Accordion 2

Item no.: 161967

3.10  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Fred Raymond

Maske In Blau

for: Accordion orchestra

Single part Accordion 1, 2

Item no.: 149972

2.80  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Johannes Weyrauch, Weyrauch Johannes

Sonatina - Str

Single part Violin 1

Item no.: 445997

3.60  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Leoš Janáček

4 Maennerchoere Im Volkston

Single part 2

Item no.: 104135

6.00  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Jean Langlais

Symphonie concertante pour violoncello et orchestre op. 20 (1936)

op. 20
Einzelstimme Vc. Solo

for: Cello, orchestra

Cello (orchestral part)

Item no.: 424505

3.40  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Johannes Weyrauch

Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen

Sonate über den Passionschoral

for: Viola

Viola (orchestral part)

Item no.: 231530

4.75  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Karl Marx

Musik für Blockflöten-Quartett

for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)

Single part Recorder 2

Item no.: 231082

4.25  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Kurt Weill, Weill Kurt

Haifisch Variationen

for: Accordion orchestra

Single part Accordion 2

Item no.: 217267

2.40  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Julius Fučík

Traumideale Op 69

Preciosa

Flute 1 (orchestral part)

Item no.: 297797

2.70  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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John Philip Sousa

Stars And Stripes Forever

for: Accordion orchestra

Single part Accordion 2

Item no.: 126908

2.30  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Franz Lehár

Ballsirenen

for: Accordion orchestra

Single part Accordion 3, 4

Item no.: 126323

2.30  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Julius Fučík

Winterstuerme

Preciosa

Single part Trombone 2

Item no.: 327686

1.25  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Franz Lehár

Zigeuner - Marsch

(Zorika, Józsi, Mihály, Chor), Nr. 7
aus "Zigeunerliebe"

for: Piano

Single part(n)

Item no.: 463603

6.70  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–4 months
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Kurt Schwaen

Tanzstueck

Single part

Item no.: 373686

3.10  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Friedrich Haag

Mondscheinstaendchen

for: Accordion orchestra

Single part Accordion 1

Item no.: 142756

2.30  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Friedrich Haag

Mondscheinstaendchen

for: Accordion orchestra

Single part Accordion 3, Bass instrument

Item no.: 142752

2.30  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Paul Höffer

Konzert - Vc Orch

Violin 1 (orchestral part)

Item no.: 385720

3.00  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 1–3 weeks.
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Johann Brussig

Lausitzer Marschalbum 1–2

for: Small wind band

Single part Tuba 2 (C)

Item no.: 223263

5.20  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Carl Piutti

Sonate e-Moll op. 27

Orgelmusik Der Klassik + Romantik Bd 16

for: Organ

Single part Organ

Item no.: 409218

15.50  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 1–3 weeks.
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Karl Marx

Als Jesus von seiner Mutter ging

for: Oboe

Oboe (orchestral part)

Item no.: 230603

2.70  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Marco Enrico Bossi, Bossi, Enrico (1861-1925)

Konzertstück c-Moll für Orgel op.130

for: Organ

Single part Organ

Item no.: 1202594

9.20  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Johann Brussig

Lausitzer Marschalbum für Blasmusik 5-6

for: Flexible wind band; keyboard ad lib.

Single part Horn 3 (F)

Item no.: 1657037

5.20  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Karl Marx

Halt hoch dich über dem Leben op. 58 (1957)

Kantate

for: Cello

Single part Cello

Item no.: 872985

8.30  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Johann Brussig

Lausitzer Marschalbum 7-8

Single part Tenor Saxophone 1

Item no.: 432400

5.20  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 2–3 weeks (fi)
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Giacomo Puccini

Mottetto per San Paolino

for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra

Violin 2 (orchestral part)

Item no.: 677346

4.65  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Paul Hindemith

Frau Musica op. 45/1

for: Chor (MezBar) mit Flöte und Streichern

Single part Cello/Double bass

Item no.: 1545113

4.95  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Paul Hindemith

Frau Musica op. 45/1

for: Chor (MezBar) mit Flöte und Streichern

Single part Viola

Item no.: 1545066

4.95  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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Paul Hindemith

Die junge Magd op. 23/2

for: Alt-Stimme mit Flöte, Klarinette und Streichquartett

Single part Violin 1

Item no.: 1544673

9.30  €incl. VAT, plus shipping
Delivery time: 4–9 working days (fi)
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