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.
"Ich ruhe still"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 742636
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 742854
3. Stille Quellen "Flieht auch der Jugend Glanz"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 742616
aus op. 5; nach Ps. 130 (Lieder nach Texten des AT (Psalmen u.a.))
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730065
1. Rosmarin "Es wollt die Jungfrau frühr aufstehn" / 2. Pfauenart "Leucht heller denn die Sonn"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 751886
aus: op. 5; Text: Joh. 3,16 (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744546
"Am grauen Strand, am grauen Meer"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 736220
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730721
from: Sieben Lieder, o. Op. AV 67
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 759317
for: 1–2 descant recorders
Music score
Item no.: 738013
3. "Ich hört ein Sichlein rauschen" / 4. Zierlichkeit des Schäferlebens "Nichts kann auf Erden"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 742626
Choral
for: Solo Baritone Voice + SATB
Choir score
Item no.: 905140
Somewhere
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 649412
Preciosa
Single part Trumpet 1
Item no.: 297799
Somewhere
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 649414
for: TRP-B 4
Item no.: 303581
for: TRP-B 2
Item no.: 314232
aus: Zwölf deutsche geistliche Gesänge
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1109062
for: Cello
Item no.: 195389
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 647949
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 157607
für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor und Orgel
for: Choir
ChorSolo part(s)
Item no.: 385981
für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor und Orgel
ChorSolo part(s)
Item no.: 385980
Somewhere
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 649413
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 348846
für Salonorchester
Violine 1
for: Salon orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 332235
for: Voice (alto)
Single part(n)
Item no.: 349741
for: Voice (alto)
Item no.: 386022
for: TBFL (VA)
Item no.: 195390
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 602273
Single part Descant recorder [Violin 1]
Item no.: 195388
Preciosa
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 268920
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 476415
Somewhere
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 348847
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 386023
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 623078
for: Voice (soprano) a cappella
Single part(n)
Item no.: 349740
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 386024
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 386025
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1212276
aus "Acht geistliche Gesänge", op. 138
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1381
Canzona napolitana
for: Voice (high), piano; mixed choir ad lib.
Sheet music
Item no.: 1355
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 898694
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4001
aus "Sechs geistliche Lieder nach Gedichten von Joseph von Eichendorff"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1463
Zu Band XI/2 der Hugo Wolf Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloist (soprano), women's choir (SSAA), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 561832
für gem Chor
Partitur
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR A CAPPELLA WELTLICH EINZELN
Score
Item no.: 1203750
op. 138, Nr. 3
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4006
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