“Where words fail, music speaks.” Hans Christian Andersen, Danish Author
What do we mean by “Classical Music”? There are classics in every artistic discipline, and music is no exception. Here at Stretta, you can find sheet music and scores from all periods of music history, and all musical forms! If you would like to know more about the meaning and origin of the term “Classical Music”, click here:
The term classical music, in a broader sense, separates what is often called “Serious Music” from Music for Entertainment and Folk Music . Classical music encompasses all periods of modern history, driven by Western composers from the Medieval Period, through the Baroque and Romantic Periods, to the modern classical music of today.
In a more narrow sense, The Classical Period means the historical period of classical music from around 1750 to 1800. It was a long period of musical development, from “Pre-Classical”, to “ Musical Sensibility”, through to “Music of the Enlightenment”. Baroque tonality continued to develop and transform, and became more complex, perfectly demonstrated through the music of the three“ Viennese Classics” Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. There was a departure from figured bass and counterpoint, and a move towards clearly defined melody and accompaniment. Many important musical works, such as the symphony and the string quartet developed, and really came into their own in the classical period, and classical music itself also began to be more and more accessible, moving out of the court and church, and into the public eye.
In Ancient Rome, the term “classicus” was reserved for a citizen in the highest tax bracket. In a figurative sense, something exemplary or immaculate is called ’classic’, a good literary example being the ’Weimar Classics’ of Schiller and Goethe. One of the highest of accolades, being named a ’classic’, is almost always awarded posthumously, an artist is very rarely referred to as a ’classic’ during their lifetime.
aus "Musae sioniae", 9. Teil
für gemischten Chor (SAM)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 2110
Wohin mit der Freud
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4328
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1279
aus: "Ein schön geistlich Gesangbuch ..." , Jena 1609
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3845
aus Georg Forsters Sammlung "Frische teutsche Liedlein"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2847
Lore-Ley
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3499
Kanon zu vier Stimmen in der Unterquarte
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 5419
aus: Dodekatonon Musicum Triciniorum ..., Erfurt 1588
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
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Item no.: 6476
Hymnus in Dominicis et Feriis Adventus Domini
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3535
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1435
Psalm 1
aus "Psalmen Davids, Hiebevorn in Teutzsche Reimen gebracht durch D. Cornelium Beckern ..."
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 4287
aus dem "Wittenbergisch deutsch Geistlich Gesangbüchlein", 1551
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
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Item no.: 2731
aus dem "Wittenbergisch deutsch Geistlich Gesangbüchlein", 1551
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2732
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3338
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4022
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4852
(Nürnberg, 1608)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1464
aus: "Kirchengesänge, Psalmen und geistliche Lieder auf die gemeinen Melodien mit vier Stimmen simpliciter gesetzt", 1608
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3844
Kanon zu zwei Stimmen aus: Canons. Zum Schulgebrauche und als Anhang zu jeder Chorgesangschule
Nördlingen, 1866
for: Choir (2 voices) a cappella
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Item no.: 5633
("Heilig ist der Herr Sabaoth")
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3446
(Text aus "Winnetou III")
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3050
aus: "Drei Geistliche Chöre für Frauenstimmen" op. 37 (Nr. 1)
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
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Item no.: 4716
Nr. 4, aus "Sechs Lieder" op. 25
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3696
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3936
aus "Deutsche Volkslieder"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1868
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4221
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1303
aus: "Der erste Frühlingstag", op. 48 (Nr. 3)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1981
aus: "Neuwe ausserlesene teutsche Gesäng"
Frankfurt am Main, 1575
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4524
aus "Hainhofers Lautenbüchern", 1603
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1151
aus "Trium vocum cantiones centum ..." (München 1541)
Ausgabe für tiefe Stimmen
for: Male choir (TBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3310
„Ach, wie soll ich das gestehen“
aus: Sechs Canons zu Drey und Vier Stimmen, Leipzig 1807
for: Women's choir [male choir] a cappella
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Item no.: 6314
Christ ist erstanden!
D. 440
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3854
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4799
aus "Le premier livre de Chansons", Antwerpen 1564
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1131
Aria zum 1. Sonntag nach Epiphanias
aus "Neue geistliche auf die Sonntag durchs gantze Jahr gerichtete Andachten ..."
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 4513
aus: Vier Tantum ergo für Sopran, Alt, Tenor und Bass
Gmunden, 1868
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 5762
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2181
aus "Musicalisch Kurtzweil" (Nürnberg, 1611)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2915
Carol for mixed voices
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3239
aus "Neue Teutsche Geistliche Lieder, mit dreien Stimmen, nach Art der Welschen Villanellen ..."
Augsburg, 1591
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 3582
aus "Le premier livre de Chansons", Antwerpen 1564
for: Mixed choir (SSAB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1130
aus: Sacred Hymns, Anthems, and Versicles
London, 1766
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 5779
op. 41, Nr. 4
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3433
aus "Sechs Lieder im Freien zu singen", op. 59 (1843)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4567
aus "Neue Weihnachtsliedlein mit vier und acht Stimmen"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2327
aus: "Les Sept paroles du Christ"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
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Item no.: 5298
aus: Newer Deudscher Lieder mit dreyen Stimmen, welche nicht allein lieblich zu singen, sondern auf auff allerley Instrumenten zu gebrauchen.
Breslau, 1584
for: Mixed choir (STB) a cappella
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Item no.: 5681