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.
Arrangement for young band
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 471608
from The Tender Land
for: Wind Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 887921
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 896623
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Voice (low), piano
Book
Item no.: 899778
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
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Highlights from the american musical
Discovery Plus Band Series – A Series for Developing Bands
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 261401
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 471568
Windependence Master Level
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1212404
from the Opera Cavelleria Rusticana
Arrangement Classic
for: Fanfare Band (brass & saxophones)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 667678
from the Opera Cavelleria Rusticana
Arrangement Classic
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 667677
Works Vol. 2A
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1541466
GA CE VOL.7
for: Piano
Book (Hardcover)
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Suite op. 28b / Four Songs op. 28a
for: Voice and Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 148365
for: für Violoncello
Item no.: 124483
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 769540
Klassik
for: Piano Quintet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 861764
for: Choir
Study score
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Strauss Lieder Complete Edition
for: Voice, piano
Music score
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Centenary Edition 1972
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
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Jazz For Young People Series
for: Big band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 604657
for Violin and Orchestra
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
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Klassik
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1539613
Hugo Wolf Kritische Gesamtausgabe
for: Symphonic orchestra
Stimme(n)
Item no.: 630985
from West Side Story
for: Flexible wind band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 761971
Finale
for: Marching band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 185453
op. 23
for: für Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 190025
"Denk es, o Seele". Oratorium nach Worten großer Dichter
für Soli, gemischten Chor, großes Orchester und Orgel
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
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Schott Harmonie Serie
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 492916
aus "Brettl-Lieder"
for: für Sopran, Piccolo, Trompete in F, Snare-Drum und Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 134019
for: BLO (KL)
Score
Item no.: 1620656
Edition after the complete Kurt Weill edition
for: Violin, concert band
Piano reduction, solo part
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Quintett (Es-dur) für Pianoforte, zwei Violinen, Viola und Violoncello
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Score
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Oper in 3 Akten nach N. Gogol
Russische Musik der Moderne
Piano reduction
Item no.: 193879
Suite for Concert Band
Schott Harmonie Serie
for: Concert band
Score
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Opera buffa in einem Aktop. 21
Piano reduction
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for: für Orchester
Conductor score
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from "Threepenny Opera"
Vindobona Collection
for: Salon orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
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for: Flute, orchestra
Score
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Edition after the complete Kurt Weill edition
for: Violin, concert band
Piano reduction, solo part
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for: Solists, boys’ choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
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Oper in 1 Akt
Piano reduction
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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for: Big band
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for: Organ, orchestra
Score
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