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.
for: Horn [Wagner-tuba]
Music lesson book
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Includes Scale, Rhythm, Chromatic, Technical ans Articulation Studies
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for: Concert band
Percussion (orchestral part)
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for: Guitar
Music lesson book
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Includes Scale, Rhythm, Chromatic, Technical ans Articulation Studies
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for: Concert band
Tuba (orchestral part)
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Includes Scale, Rhythm, Chromatic, Technical ans Articulation Studies
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for: Concert band
Oboe (orchestral part)
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Includes Scale, Rhythm, Chromatic, Technical ans Articulation Studies
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for: Concert band
Baritone horn in B-flat, Treble Clef (orchestral part)
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Book (softcover)
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Includes Scale, Rhythm, Chromatic, Technical ans Articulation Studies
apllied to 12 full compositions and arrangements
for: Concert band
Trumpet 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 432272
for: Violin
Music lesson book
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for: Horn [Wagner-tuba]
Music score
Item no.: 555312
Includes Scale, Rhythm, Chromatic, Technical ans Articulation Studies
apllied to 12 full compositions and arrangements
for: Concert band
Mallets (orchestral part)
Item no.: 432281
Includes Scale, Rhythm, Chromatic, Technical ans Articulation Studies
apllied to 12 full compositions and arrangements
for: Concert band
Horn (orchestral part)
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Includes Scale, Rhythm, Chromatic, Technical ans Articulation Studies
apllied to 12 full compositions and arrangements
for: Concert band
Baritone saxophone in E-flat (orchestral part)
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apllied to 12 full compositions and arrangements
for: Concert band
Trombone 1 (orchestral part)
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apllied to 12 full compositions and arrangements
for: Concert band
Saxophone 1 alto in E-flat (orchestral part)
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Study book
Item no.: 776466
Includes Scale, Rhythm, Chromatic, Technical ans Articulation Studies
apllied to 12 full compositions and arrangements
for: Concert band
Timpani (orchestral part)
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for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 265467
Includes Scale, Rhythm, Chromatic, Technical ans Articulation Studies
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for: Concert band
Single part Tenor Saxophone
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for: Concert band
Alto clarinet in E-flat (orchestral part)
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for: Piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 840656
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for: Concert band
Trumpet 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 432271
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for: Concert band
Clarinet 2 (orchestral part)
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for: Concert band
Bass clarinet (orchestral part)
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Book
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for: Concert band
Flute (orchestral part)
Item no.: 432268
for: Flute
Music lesson book
Item no.: 993271
66 zweistimmige Singübungen
for: Children's choir
Noten als Druckausgabe nur noch in der englischen Version erhältlich (BH 3561)
Item no.: 779981
Includes Scale, Rhythm, Chromatic, Technical ans Articulation Studies
apllied to 12 full compositions and arrangements
for: Concert band
Saxophone alto 2 in E-flat (orchestral part)
Item no.: 432274
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apllied to 12 full compositions and arrangements
for: Concert band
Clarinet 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 432269
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
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"Des Knaben Wunderhorn"; Nr. 8 aus: Acht Chorlieder
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 740356
aus der Oper "Hänsel und Gretel" (Adelheid Wette, nach "Des Knaben Wunderhorn")
for: Women's choir (SMezA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 743573
aus op. 19
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 737050
Melodrama after the Poem by Ludwig Uhland
for: Sprechstimme und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 760547
No. 4 The Waterlily (C sharp minor)
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 760524
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 324189
Komödie für Musik in drei Aufzügen von Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Piano reduction
Item no.: 760654
Walzer
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 760561
arranged by Samuel Dushkin
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 726756
60 choral highlights for upper voices
From 16th century to the present day
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 659893
60 Highlights für Frauenchor - Originalkompositionen und Arrangements vom 16. Jahrhundert bis heute
for: Women's choir, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 659892
No. 1 Cornflower (A major)
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 760270
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1378112
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377554
Ramble on the love-duet edited for piano by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1927)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 760522
op. 61
for: großes Orchester und Orgel
Study score
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