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.
Musik für Klarinettenquartett
for: Clarinet ensemble (4 voices)
Score, Parts (treble and bass clef)
Item no.: 1669115
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1670144
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1672836
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1689957
for: Clarinet, cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668789
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1690196
for: Double bass, string orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1655128
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1684436
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1666400
I.-III. Lage
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1654998
for Piano solo
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 1677418
G
for: Violin, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1666030
G
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1665761
Alphonse Leduc Collection Performing Editions
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1672898
Babi Yar
for: Soloist (bass), male choir (TTBB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1681473
Opera in two acts (final version) / in one act (original version)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615908
1. Fassung
H 276 I
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1672940
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1684593
N°2 de la "Suite populaire brésilienne"
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1678436
"Cessato il suon dell'armi"
SC 3
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1654454
aus: Messe modale
JA 136,1
Einzelausgabe aus Chorbuch
for: Chor (2-stimmig), Flöte, Orgel
Single edition
Item no.: 1690390
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 CDs (without sheet music)
Item no.: 1666899
Am
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1666299
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1689964
Leningrad
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1680966
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1690715
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1646591
édition bon(n)orgue Vol. 33
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1678180
(Staffelpreise möglich)
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1676677
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1678211
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1670120
light & flexi +
Marschmusik light
Item no.: 1669119
for: Violin, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1690964
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 1663046
I.-IV./V. Lage
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1673778
op. 61b,4
Einzelausgabe aus Chorbuch
for: Mixed choir (2 voices), organ
Single edition
Item no.: 1690383
"Cessato il suon dell'armi"
SC 3
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1654453
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1666456
Am
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1666415
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1670137
12 easy pieces
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 379278
Schott Student Edition – Repertoire
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1672937
for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1646587
Nocturne and Cortège
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1672740
édition bon(n)orgue Vol. 97
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1678165
I.-III. Lage
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1654985
Harlequin's Round Dance
for: Voice (tenor), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1681466
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1665990
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