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: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 108824
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 656967
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197618
In Spitzwegs Art
for: 2 violins, viola (trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 112575
for: Organ
Music score
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Nocturne
for: Flute, Percussion and Piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 340419
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 198011
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Stimmen-Set
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 108677
Romantische Operette in drei Akten
Piano reduction
Item no.: 128169
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 617092
for violin and piano
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 664328
for: Flute, piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 614927
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 283724
for: Voice (low), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1771
"When at night I go to sleep" from "Hansel and Gretel"
for: Sopran, Mezzo-Sopran und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 738103
for: Voice (medium), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 3277
Romantische Operette in drei Akten
Klavierauszug mit Text
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 128212
for: 2 solo voices (MezBar), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ; trumpet, harp, kettle drums ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 301278
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 108932
for: Piano and Violin
Book
Item no.: 136092
Score
Item no.: 430029
A
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1046592
op. 8
for: Cello
Item no.: 124388
for: Trumpet, piano
Item no.: 275246
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 108816
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 197961
Volume 1: Femmes de Légende
Edition in eleven volumes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 369081
for: Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and French Horn
Score, Parts
Item no.: 325716
G-Dur op. 27/4
for: Voice (high), violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 697326
The Original Edition
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 770308
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 330404
Complete Edition (Parts I-IV)
Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 607291
Strategies and structures in new music from 1900-present
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 1011915
for: Voice [choir]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 475518
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
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Five songs
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 292406
for: Voice (medium), viola, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 340875
for: Voice, violin
Music score
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Organ Improvisation
for: Organ
Music lesson book
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Piano Solo Book
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Flute [violin], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 281559
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 241808
for: Organ
Item no.: 225260
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
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for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 478794
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
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for bassoon and piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
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