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.
Des heures de la cathedrale de Soissons
for: Organ
Item no.: 293200
In Spitzwegs Art
for: 2 violins, viola (trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 112575
für Steichquartett
Thema und 14 Variationen über die Melodie von Mildred J. Hill
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 108677
Russische Musik der Moderne
Revidierte Neuauflage 1998
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 108789
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 198011
Strategies and structures in new music from 1900-present
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 1011915
Unpublished Works Collection
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 614782
Nocturne
for: Flute, Percussion and Piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 340419
for: Oboe, piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 641708
A sonata for two clarinets - one in Bb and one in A.
for: 2 clarinets
Ensemble score
Item no.: 279855
Musique Française
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1054436
Alfred Masterwork Edition
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 297678
Revised edition, 1994
includes audio demonstration and accompaniment tracks
for: Flute, piano
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 638505
für Klavier
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 674135
for: Double bass, piano
Book
Item no.: 164474
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: Guitar, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392542
Walzer aus der Operette "Die lustige Witwe"
for: Symphonic orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 309033
Psaume symphonique en trois parties – Symphonischer Psalm in drei Teilen
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 120388
Revised and with the addition of a practice method by Fernand Gillet
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 266636
Lehrhilfsmittel
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 342109
Mit Klavierbegleitung zu Übungszwecken
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 327919
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 176615
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 131270
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 767296
ピーターと狼
Russische Musik der Moderne
Mit japanischem und englischem Text
for: Narrator, piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 629978
Opus 3
for Violin
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 684556
Eight medieval lyrics
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 120510
Well-known piano music including original works and arrangements.
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 185793
21 pezzi per chitarra from opus 170
Edizione critica
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 685468
for: 2 violins, viola (trio)
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Sonderanfertigung
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 326242
für Klavier zu 2 Händen gesetzt
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 490649
Heft 1
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 337285
for: Flute [violin], harp
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 100970
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 350619
Musik für Orgel und Instrumente Heft 21
for: Flute, organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 487645
for: Piano
Item no.: 181564
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Clarinet, piano
Book
Item no.: 408975
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 358563
pour Cor en fa et piano
for: Horn, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 100934
Well-known piano music including original works and arrangements. Includes music from Love and The Musician, La Vida Breve and 'Homenaje'.
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 185792
for: 4 trumpets, horn, 4 trombones, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 596973
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 364642
Easy Jazz Combo
for: Jazz-combo (4 flexible wind instruments, rhythm section)
Score
Item no.: 1533527
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1005784
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 935281
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 631133
from 'Gloriana'
for: Voice, guitar
Book
Item no.: 471435
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