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.
1-4st. gemischter Chor, Gemeinde Fl, Ob, Fg, Streicher.
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1-4st. gemischter Chor, Gemeinde Fl, Ob, Fg, Streicher.
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Clarinet and String Ensemble
for: Clarinet and String Ensemble
Score, Parts
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Clarinet Quintet
for: Clarinet Quintet
Score, Parts
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Clarinet and String Ensemble
for: Clarinet and String Ensemble
Score, Parts
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Trumpet and String Quartet
for: Trumpet and String Quartet
Score, Parts
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for: Bläserquintett
Score, Parts
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Trumpet and Clarinet Quartet
for: Trumpet and Clarinet Quartet
Score, Parts
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Oboe and String Ensemble
for: Oboe and String Ensemble
Score, Parts
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for: Voice, piano
Music score
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for: Double bass
Music score
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Nr. 14 Thou Didst Arise from the Tomb (Voskres iz groba)
for: Mixed Choir [SATB] A Cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 471556
A Ballet in Three Acts
for: Symphonic orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 864625
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 887541
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1212296
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 900005
The fickle sweetheart
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 895035
for: Voice (low), piano
Book
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for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 910788
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
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for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Book
Item no.: 905417
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1203640
"Frühling kommt angezogen" Idylleop. 52
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 2
Item no.: 1112013
aus: Zwölf deutsche geistliche Gesänge
op. WoO VI/13, 4, 1899
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1664467
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1201655
for: Horn, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Gestatteter Nachdruck (1935, Heugel, Paris)
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1201541
for: Klaviertrio
Score, Set of parts
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Violin, viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Organ
Music score
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Fantasie und Fuge
for: Organ
Music score
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for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), organ
Music score
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: String orchestra
Set of parts
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
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for: Voice, piano
Music score
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(Original for chorus and orchestra)
for: Concert Band/Harmonie and Opt. Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 155110
aus dem 12. - 20. Jahrhundert
for: 1-4 Recorders [S/Aa/AAA/SATB]
Book
Item no.: 198236
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Voice, piano
Music score
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for: Oboe and String Quartet
Einzelstimme
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BB.86A SZ.77
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1650801
for: Viola, piano
Single part (Viola solo)
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