“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.
for: 2 bassoons [cellos], piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 684748
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 601765
Exercises 1–20
Schirmer Library of Musical Classics
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 274489
First impression of the secon edition of the year 1769 in modern type and orthography
Preface by Nikolaus Harnoncourt
for: Violin
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 677098
for speaker and solo violin
for: Violin, narrator
Music score
Item no.: 646956
(Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 558778
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 612622
BWV 988
für Streichtrio
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Study score
Item no.: 111892
Chopin National Edition
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 344829
1948/1956
for: Cello, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 634517
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 276524
Collection Gautier Capucon
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 664506
Edition Schott
for: Descant (soprano) recorder [violin], piano
Music score
Item no.: 729706
op. 5 Nr. 12
for: Treble recorder, basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1177
Primer Level
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 111083
for: Flute
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401439
Transcribed for Solo Piano
Peermusic Classical
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 660957
Exerpts from the Operatic and Concert Repertoire
for: Viola
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 353890
National Edition
for: Piano
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 335298
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 124020
for flute and piano
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 621162
op. 18
for: Viola, piano
Item no.: 563082
for: Flute, organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 475836
for: 3 treble recorders [violins], basso continuo
Sheet music
Item no.: 2064
Edition Peters Green Series
for: Voice
Music score
Item no.: 381053
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 108824
Reduzierte Fassung
for: 2 solo voices (MezBar), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ; trumpet, harp, kettle drums ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 301277
Russische Musik der Moderne
Revidierte Neuauflage 1998
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 108789
National Edition Series A Volume 7
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 105772
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 367354
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Organ
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1582673
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 603656
en forme de messe basse
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 107217
Analytische Studie
for: Violin
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 131819
Klassik
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 177132
per viola solo
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 626236
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Clarinet (A) [basset clarinet], orchestra
Piano reduction, 2 solo parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116514
Revidierte Fassung (1903-1904, rev. 1905)
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 178093
Musica Mundi 14
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 357722
Edited by Louis Moyse
Louis Moyse Flute Collection
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 395321
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1479048
für Cello solo
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 682904
Second Version (1878) with the 1880 Finale
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 409801
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB/SSATB/SSAATB/SSAATTB)
CHORBUCH
Item no.: 433866
Volume 1: Femmes de Légende
Edition in eleven volumes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 369081
Critical new edition by Benjamin Gunnar Cohrs,
drawing upon the work of Alfred Orel und Leopold Nowak (2000)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 268802
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 620062
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 431698