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.
Opus 17
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198437
In C
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1212423
for: Concert Band/Harmonie and Xylophone
Score
Item no.: 1000635
for: Concert band
Conductors part, set of parts
Item no.: 1640670
für Violoncello und Orchester
für Violoncello und Klavier
for: Cello, orchestra
Item no.: 1343724
for: Concert band
Einzelstimme
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GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
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für Kammerorchester
Studienpartitur
for: Chamber orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1343948
for: Flexible ensemble (4 voices)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1210365
for: 2 euphoniums
Ensemble score
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Englischhorn und Klavier
Stimmen
for: SOLOGESANG (INCL. MEHRERE SOLOSTIMMEN) EINE SINGSTIMME SINGSTIMME MIT KAMMERENSEMBLE (MEHRERE INSTR.)
Set of parts
Item no.: 614458
De Haske Study and Play
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
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for: Flute ensemble
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for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 998194
Partitur (2 Bände)
for: BUEHNENWERKE + SZENISCHE WERKE OPER
Item no.: 1344066
Reprint
Repertoire Explorer
for: Flute, orchestra
Study score
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JSW – Complete Works – Series I (Orchestral works) 5
edited by the National Library of Finland and the Sibelius Society of Finland
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
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für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 1343864
From The West Side Story
for: 2 Bb Clarinets, Eb Alto Clarinet and Bass Clarinet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1531111
auf der Unterseptime im Abstand von zwei Vierteln
aus: Kanons durch alle Dur- und Molltonarten, Heft I
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 5679
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 644428
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 737584
Edition Schott
for: Bläser und Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 724785
Edition Schott
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 725294
Spätromantik
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 761073
op. 84
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759237
for horn and orchestra
for: Horn, piano
Music score
Item no.: 750378
op. 28
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 750379
for: Clarinet, piano
Music score
Item no.: 792071
Edition Schott
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 793313
aus der Operette "Ball der Nationen"
for: Voice, piano
Music score
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Amstel Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1208916
from the Opera Andrea Chenier
for: Baritone and Symphonic Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198254
Geistliche Musik
for: Organ, klavarskribo notation
Book
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Oper/Operette
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198575
Grande Messe de l'Église Métropolitaine d'Art
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 6188
für drei bis zwölf Saxophone
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1678056
aus: "Die ersten Studien für Viola", op. 86
for: Viola
Sheet music
Item no.: 4812
Klassik
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1671251
op. 2/2
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 722418
for 13 wind instruments
Reprint of the first edition (Aibl, München, 1882)
for: Wind ensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 694878
10 Songs
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1657482
Opera Completa (Testo Cantato In Italiano-Giapponese)
for: Vocal and Piano Reduction
Piano reduction
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Große Oper in fünf Akten
Reprint
Opera Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Scores
Item no.: 1331539
3 pieces for Clarinet Quartet
for: 3 Clarinets and Bass Clarinet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198267
op. 366 Nr. 1
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
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Southern Music
for: Flute and String Quartet
Score, Parts
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D major
for: Violin, piano
Music score
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