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.
Belwin Young Band
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 762342
Waltz for Band
for: Small wind band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 679562
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1381730
Bartok Suite aus "Für Kinder"
Beginning String Orchestra
for: Youth string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 601319
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1382222
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 796673
Young Band
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 762341
Alfred's Challenger Band Series
for: Youth concert band
Item no.: 372670
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Book
Item no.: 1211876
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1385229
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1384363
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 868943
Waltz for Band
for: Concert band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 1595899
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1384706
for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1646587
for string orchestra score and parts (8-8-5-5-5)
The Highland/Etling String Orchestra Series
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 661602
Belwin Beginning String Orchestra
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 762279
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1383952
for: Violin, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1690964
für Gesang und Orchester
for: Voice, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 607340
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1024938
for: für Violine ( Flöte) und Klavier
Item no.: 153779
neue Fassung von 1962op.15
Klavierauszug
Item no.: 124517
aus der Oper "Wozzeck" (1923)
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra; children's choir ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 129480
for: Woodwind ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 977675
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 291696
op. 15
Piano reduction
Item no.: 341818
for: für Klarinette und Klavier
Item no.: 206734
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 561890
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 291678
Tanzpantomime nach Oskar Wilde für Kammerorchester
for: Chamber orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 214980
for: für Knabenstimme,2 Sopran,2 Alt,2 Tenöre,2 Bässe,Chor SATB,kleinen Frauenchor, Knabenchor, Streichorchester,2 Gamben, Cembalo und Orgel
Score
Item no.: 400126
for: für Violoncello und Klavier
Klavierauszug
Item no.: 289137
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 977658
op. 80
for: Flute, 2 violins, viola, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1566249
nach einer Dichtung von Grete Wiesenthal
for: für Violine, Klarinette, Horn, Violoncello und Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 155988
Novorossiyek Chimes
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 901177
for: für 6 Solostimmen (S, 2A, T, 2Bar), Frauenchor, Männerchor, Tänzer und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 295808
for: Woodwind ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 977677
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 1019568
Avancé
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1015199
Score
Item no.: 120784
Score
Item no.: 120758
Third Parable for Church Performance op. 81
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 120557
vocal score (dt/en)
for: MCH ENSEMBLE
Score
Item no.: 634450
Piano reduction
Item no.: 120646
Score
Item no.: 120485
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