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.
aus der Orgelsinfonie f-Moll, op. 42, Nr. 5
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 3449
Im Gedenken an John Nádherný-Borutin
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 738093
for violin, viola and violoncello
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Set of parts
Item no.: 733964
from: Fünf Liebeslieder nach Ricarda Huch
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 750918
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 748899
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1083
from: Liederbuch des Hafis
for: Voice (bass), piano
Music score
Item no.: 750928
op. posth.
for: Harp
Music score
Item no.: 721689
on poems by Ivan Surikov (1.); Semyon Nadson (2.); Lev Mey (3.), Count Aleksey K. Tolstoy (4.) (German adaptation by Hans Schmidt)
for: gemischter Chor (vier-bis achtstimmig)
Chorpartitur mit Klavierbegleitung ad lib.
Item no.: 754926
op. 131b/2
for: 2 violins
Music score
Item no.: 759705
Edition Schott
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 746883
Edition Schott
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 760495
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2041
Edition Schott
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 733147
for: Guitar
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1052675
Wiegenlied
for: 2 voices, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1543507
for: Voice & Tuba
Sheet music
Item no.: 1272416
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1601700
for: Tuba Quartet (1 Euphonium & 3 Tubas)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1271991
for: Tenor Saxophone, Trumpet & Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1270856
from the opera "Die tote Stadt"
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 781505
from "Roumanian Folk Dances"
for: Double bass, piano
Music score
Item no.: 735665
aus: "Sechs melodische Vortragsstücke im leichten Style", op. 43 (Nr. 2)
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 4317
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 757665
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 757666
for harp and flute
for: Harfe und Flöte
Music score
Item no.: 748411
for English horn, violin, viola and violoncello
for: Cor anglais, violin, viola, cello
Study score
Item no.: 748465
Edition Schott
for: Violoncello und Klarinette
Ensemble score
Item no.: 748601
op. 34/14
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741605
for piano four hands
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 752809
Original Version
for: 3 guitars
Score, Parts
Item no.: 739200
Allerhand Variationen über ein kurzweiliges Thema
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 728408
Edition Schott
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 750225
(Habanera)
for: 2 guitars
Music score
Item no.: 757597
Canzona napolitana
for: Voice (medium), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1817
from: Tres piezas faciles, op. 19
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 758547
Cantiones profanae
for: Solostimmen (STBar), gemischter Chor (SATB), Kinderchor, 2 Klaviere und Schlagzeug
Einzelstimme Schlagzeug (Pauke, piatti, Tam tam, Gr. Trommel, 3 Glockenspiele, kleine Trommel, Xylophon, Triangel, Glocken, Cymbal, Schellen, Tamborine, Rassel)
Item no.: 748234
(1907)
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 739518
for viola and piano
for: Viola, piano
Music score
Item no.: 746619
F
for: Cello, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1052283
op. 31
for: Flöte und Klavier, Basso ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 731770
for: Voice (high), piano
Piano/Vocal
Item no.: 1027416
G
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1050312
An introduction to new dance rhythms
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 727179
for: Clarinet, bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1270879
Hommage an Franz Schubert
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 749410
A
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1048105
Suite for orchestra (1919)
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 793901
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