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.
Intermezzo
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1015220
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1063845
for: Concert Band and Vocal Soloist
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1063613
BOVACO Vocal Solo
for: Voice, concert band
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1019773
for: Concert Band and Vocal Soloist
Score, Parts
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BOVACO Vocal Solo
for: Voice, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1067197
for: Concert Band and Vocal Soloist
Score
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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The New Commonwealth
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1060035
Canzonetta
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 643315
Suite nach Henry Purcell, für Streichquartett od. Streichorchester
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 205574
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1013611
March
Command
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1021042
Three Short Pieces from 42 Hungarian Folk Melodies
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1068322
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1060493
Vater unser
for: Voice (tenor), mixed choir (SATB), harp, organ
Single part Harp
Item no.: 630690
Nr. 2: Sehnsuchtop. 50
for: Voice (low), piano
Item no.: 106746
Nr. 1: Lenzgesangop. 50
for: Voice (high), piano
Item no.: 106743
for: Accordion
Item no.: 102207
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 324770
March
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1069576
March
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1066300
March
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1063957
March
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1062767
March
Series: BOVACO Classic CB
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1019109
March
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1069678
March
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1069357
March
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1068837
March
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1063846
March
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1060347
March
BOVACO Classic CB
for: Concert band
Conductors part
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March
for: Concert band
Score
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March
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1012331
March
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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March
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1010669
March
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1010156
for: Concert Band and Vocal Soloist
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1067385
for: Concert Band and Vocal Soloist
Score
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for: Concert band
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 939748
for: Concert band
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 939586
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 371853
Heft 8: Kleine Sinfonie, op. 87
for: Youth string orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 371530
Liedkantate
for: Gemischter Chor: SAB, Sopran-Blockflöte, Alt-Blockflöte, Oboe, Violine, Tenor-Blockflöte, Alt-Blockflöte, Streicher
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 115794
Kleine Epistelmotette zum 24. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Concert band
Single part Flute 2
Item no.: 187364
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 867617
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 867555
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