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: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
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Mit Klavierbegleitung zu Übungszwecken
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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15 magyar népdal 1
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Choir score
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Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
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No.1 Help us, o Lord
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 361999
for: Mandolin orchestra
Single part Mandolin 2
Item no.: 373683
für Sprecher, Soli, Kinderchor und kleines Orchester
Für Kinder ab 8 Jahren geeignet.
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 1660026
for: Mandolin orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 374155
for: Mandolin orchestra
Single part Mandola
Item no.: 373684
for: Mixed Choir [SATB] A Cappella
Book
Item no.: 362000
aus: Vier Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 361998
for: Mandolin orchestra
Guitar (single part)
Item no.: 373681
aus "Three Motets op. 18"
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1652447
for: Mandolin orchestra
Single part Mandolin 1
Item no.: 373682
Ein ganz kleines Reh stand am ganz kleinen Baum
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 261167
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 377859
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 250245
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1671795
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 566222
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913123
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 868166
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 909069
Drei der größten Erfolge von George Gershwin
für Blockflöten-Quartett mit Gitarrenbegleitung ad libitum
for: 4 recorders (SATB); guitar ad lib.
Single part descant recorder
Item no.: 680406
Drei der größten Erfolge von George Gershwin
für Blockflöten-Quartett mit Gitarrenbegleitung ad libitum
for: 4 recorders (SATB); guitar ad lib.
Single part Bass recorder
Item no.: 680410
Le Printemps
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Score
Item no.: 1040445
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
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for: Piano [Klavarskribo]
Book
Item no.: 1089158
for mixed chorus and piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 168332
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1664263
Heft 12: Serenade op. 85 (Juon)
for: Youth string orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1654116
Chorale-motet
Gothic print
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114749
Hungarian folk song for unaccompanied SSAA voices
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1658674
No.4 Sing Ye Praises to Our King
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 362001
Old American Songs I
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
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Benedictus
for: Mixed Choir or 7 Soloists [SSATTBB] a Cappella, Percussion ad lib.
Choir score
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for mixed chorus and organ score
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
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Heft 12: Serenade op. 85 (Juon)
for: Youth string orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
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Heft 12: Serenade op. 85 (Juon)
for: Youth string orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
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Prelude
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653332
Something's Coming / Tonight
for: Treble Choir [SSA] and Piano [CD or Instruments]
Einzelstimme
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Heft 12: Serenade op. 85 (Juon)
for: Youth string orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1676799
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 865726
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 932303
für vier Posaunen oder andere tiefe Blechblasinstrumente
Partitur in C
Reihe D: Solistische Werke für Bläser
for: Brass winds (4 parts)
Part 3 in B-flat
Item no.: 1677074
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1628393
Original version from the Musical Candide
for: Soloists, Mixed Choir [SATB] and Piano
Piano reduction
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GIA Evoking Sound
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
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