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.
Young Jazz (Jazz Ensemble)
for: Jazz ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1212418
per pianoforte e archi
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Score
Item no.: 260018
Per Violino E Orchestra - Partitura
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 259845
for: Mixed ensemble
Buch
Item no.: 1138531
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 1141889
for: Flöte Klarinette, Fagott, ORCH
Score
Item no.: 261664
Für eine Singstimme und Klavier
Hugo Wolf Kritische Gesamtausgabe
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 227646
op.48
for: Violinen (2) (oder Violine und Viola), Cello, Harmonium
Set of parts
Item no.: 1199502
Walzer aus der Operette "Die lustige Witwe"
for: Symphonic orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 309033
for: Piano
Item no.: 128167
Volume 1: Fantasias and Fugues etc.
Breitkopf Urtext on the basis of the Reger Complete Edition
for: Organ
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 286011
eingeleitet und kommentiert von Leonard Stein
Book
Item no.: 1670055
based on Jupiter from The Planets
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 946755
for: Piano
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 140750
Die Liebe in Opern des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 489964
op. 41
for: für Violine, Viola und Cello
Set of parts
Item no.: 403169
Early Vocal Music 1899-1909
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 369345
Gabriel Estrellas, Guitarra
2 Audio-CDs
Item no.: 294058
eingeleitet und kommentiert von Leonard Stein
Book
Item no.: 124159
Märchen in einem Vorspiel und drei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1534804
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 164783
for piano 4 hands
Reprint
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 476248
for string orchestra
Very Beginning String Orchestra
for: Youth string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 679250
for: Brass ensemble (13 parts), timpani, latin percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 616255
for: Oboe and String Quartet
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 895309
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 266096
6 Flöten
for: 6 Flöten
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1352074
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 113066
for: für Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 275610
for: 2 Trompeten, Horn, Posaune und Tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1108757
sinfonisches Blasorchester
Partitur und Stimmen
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1626841
op. 26
for: für Orchester
Taschenpartitur
Item no.: 459098
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 927890
for: für Violine und Klavier
Item no.: 328135
from West Side Story
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 895202
Edition Schott
for: 2 violins, viola, cello
Set of parts
Item no.: 733945
for string quartet
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1548976
Oper in drei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 388576
For Violoncello and Piano (Charles Schiff)
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 163701
A major
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 740463
for: KLAR HRN VL VC KLAV
Score, Parts
Item no.: 334701
A Requiem "For those we love"
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (MezBar) und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 734331
for: Violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 344075
Musique de brasserie
for: Streichquintett und Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 564269
Die Geschichte von dem König und der klugen Frau (1941-42)
for: Solo voices, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 288318
op. 4
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 1545481
Capriccio in einem Aufzug
Studienpartitur
for: BUEHNENWERKE + SZENISCHE WERKE OPER
Study score
Item no.: 657655
Suite for orchestra arranged for two pianos
The Virtuoso Piano Transcription Series
Two copies required for performance
for: 2 pianos
Ensemble score
Item no.: 680497
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