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: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1187454
Musique Champetre
for: Concert Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1187058
Musique Champetre
for: Concert Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1187724
Wals Selectie Uit De Operette
for: Concert Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1188292
Wals Selectie Uit De Operette
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1189849
Suite
Band Music
for: Fanfare
Conductors part (B-flat), set of parts
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Bar.Voice + Band
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1011823
Mars, the Bringer of War
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1189587
Musique Champetre
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1186635
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1188991
Musique Champetre
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1187671
Baritone Voice Solo and Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1183911
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1190455
for: Concert Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1018532
großes militärisches Tongemälde
for: Concert band
Set of parts
Item no.: 336438
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1021199
for: Alto saxophone, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198182
from "Trittico Botticelliano"
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198334
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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Arr. John Glenesk Mortimer
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594165
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1315318
for: SPR MCH ORCH
FAKSIMILE / PART / GEB
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for: 5 Soli, Chor und Kammerorchester
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 104731
for: für Orchester Faksimile
Score
Item no.: 296374
Boosey and Hawkes Quarter Military Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 465963
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 556783
for: Wind Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 149275
Großes Medley aus der Märchenoper
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1008792
Paul Hindemith - Complete Works 8
for: Concert band
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 1544292
for: Alto saxophone, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1008795
Kritische Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Leos Janácek C/3
for: Frauenstimmen solo, Frauenchor, Instrumente
Gesamtausgabe, Chorpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 868857
Scottish Opera Version
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1180
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 159373
for: Orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
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Over the Hills and Far Away
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 683286
based on Ancien Airs
Hal Leonard Concert Band Series
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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On a Theme of Purcell
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 687722
critical commentary, complete edition
Arnold Schönberg – Complete Works 27,2
Book (critical commentary, hardcover)
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after J.S. Bach 'Sheep May Graze in Safety'
for: Concert band
Score
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Oper in drei Akten (unvollendet)
Arnold Schönberg - Sämtliche Werke 8,1
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 101754
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 372183
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 1556929
Oper in 3 Akten op. 64
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 734
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 348938
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 864533
Schott Harmonie Serie
for: Concert band
Set of parts
Item no.: 108324
Reprint of the first edition (Aibl, Leipzig, 1896)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 694875
An Opera in three Acts and a Prologue
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 749
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 365371
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1091224
Bd 033: Suite for Variety Stage Orchestra (früher: Suite Nr. 2 für Jazzorchester)
Schostakowitsch - Neue Gesamtausgabe 033 (Complete edition)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 374349
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