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.
Op 24/5b
für drei gleiche Stimmen, Gemeinde und Orgel
Choir score
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Choir score
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Choir score
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aus "Hänsel und Gretel"
Chormusik der Romantik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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Altdeutscher Liederreim
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
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Welterfolge für Zupforchester
for: Mandolin orchestra
Guitar (single part)
Item no.: 328892
aus Vier Lieder op. 20
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1682082
Altdeutscher Liederreim
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
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aus der Oper "Hänsel und Gretel"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 560609
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 345526
Sopran/Alt
ChorSolo part(s)
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for: 3 recorders (SAT), piano
Single part Tenor recorder
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Edition Schultheiss
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Choir score
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for: Women's choir a cappella
Vocal score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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Öl auf Leinwand 1903
Postcard
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Leuckart-Chorblatt
for: Male choir
Choir score
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Fotographie von Moritz Nähr, aufgenommen 1907 in der Wiener Hofoper
DIN A6
Postcard
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BB 111a
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
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aus Vier Lieder op. 20
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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Motette für gemischten Chor a cappella
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Choir score
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Neapolitanisches Lied
"Das blaue Meer, die goldne Sonne"
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
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Motette für gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Voice (mezzo-soprano/baritone), keyboard instrument; mixed choir (SATB) ad lib.
Score
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Kleine Adventskantate für gemischten Chor und Instrumente
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Ensemble score
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und Instrumente
Chorpartitur
for: CHORMUSIK FRAUEN- + KINDERCHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG WELTLICH EINZELN
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CHOR
16
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score, Choir score
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für drei und vier gemischte Stimmen a cappella
Das Singwerk
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Choir score
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Broadway Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
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für gem Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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from the Symphony No. 5
for: Harp, strings
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1
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for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
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(Melodie von 1666)
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Choir score
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Vocal score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
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for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
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Version für gemischten Chor und Klavier [Orgel]
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Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
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Transcontinental Music Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
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Schirmer Choral Classics
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
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No. 52 From Schlichte Weisen, Op. 76
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
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"Gewaltig endet so das Jahr"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660485
5. Röslein auf der Heiden: "Sie gleicht wohl einem Rosenstock"
Schott Chormusik
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1667246
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