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.
G-Dur op. 27/4
for: Voice (high), violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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F
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
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De Mecanisme Flute (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Flute
Music lesson book
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ABRSM Easier Piano Pieces 35
for: Piano
Music score
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Strategies and structures in new music from 1900-present
Book (softcover)
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for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
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for: Voice (medium), viola, piano
Score, part
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Sevcik Cello Studies
for: Cello
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Klassik
for: Flute, piano
Book
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Five songs
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
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for: Voice (high), piano
Piano score
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for: Organ
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for: Viola, piano
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for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, parts
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pour violoncelle et piano
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
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Tragedia giaponese in due atti
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
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Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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Et Orchestre
for: Trumpet, piano
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for two pianos
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction
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for: Flute [violin], cello, piano
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for: Cello, piano
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Solo-Konzert
for: 2 pianos
Book
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Edition Schott
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
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pour piano
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Orchestra
Study score
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for: Organ
Music score
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Prüfungsliteratur
for: Horn, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Doppelgriff-Vorstudien. Unterrichtswerk für Viola
Sevcik Violin Studies (Technik) (Technique)
for: Viola
Music score
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Russische Musik der Moderne
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 108909
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: 2 voices (SB), string orchestra, latin percussion
Study score
Item no.: 108834
cantate pour double choeur mixte a cappella
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
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pour grande orgue
for: Organ
Music score
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Urtext Edition, clothbound
for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
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Unpublished Works Collection 2
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Organ
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for: Organ
Music score
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Paris, 1900
for: Oboe [flute/clarinet (B-flat)/violin], cello [viola/bassoon/clarinet (B-flat)], piano
Score, parts (pdf download)
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Reprint
Repertoire Explorer
for: Flute, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
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for: Bass trombone, piano
Sheet music
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ABRSM Cello Exam Pieces 2016-2019
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 197989
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Clarinet
Music score
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for: Trumpet (B-flat/C), piano
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for: Alto saxophone (E-flat), chamber orchestra
Study score
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Unpublished Works Collection
for: Piano
Music score
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sur le thème du "Veni creator" op. 4
pour orgue
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 283701
Nocturne
for: Flute, Percussion and Piano
Score, Parts
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Romantische Operette in drei Akten
Piano reduction
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