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.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1177266
op. 3/2
for: für Salonorchester
Set of parts
Item no.: 1135538
"Der Sommer ist verstrichen"
for: gemischter Chor (SAT)
Choir score
Item no.: 751773
March
BOVACO Classic CB
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1020828
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 874126
for: Guitar or Lute
Score
Item no.: 394104
op. 10
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1134890
for: 2 voices, organ
Score
Item no.: 1202252
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1201453
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1201642
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1201682
for: Harmonium
Music score
Item no.: 1201859
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1201962
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1201990
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1202034
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1202661
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1647876
Book
Item no.: 977223
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 892956
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 791814
for: Concert band
Single part Tuba
Item no.: 1024041
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097370
March
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1013393
Klassik
for: Choir and String Ensemble
Choir score
Item no.: 838867
Ballet in two scenes, to a scenario by Luigi Malipiero
Piano reduction
Item no.: 680807
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 921036
Sousa Legacy
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1061517
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110765
From the Ballet The Fire bird
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1620445
Gestatteter Nachdruck (1908, Heugel, Paris)
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1201520
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1160652
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1200822
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1201015
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1530589
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Single edition
Item no.: 1083469
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 767631
Urtext nach der Gesamtausgabe „Jean Sibelius Werke“ (JSW)
for: Violin, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1639966
Choir score
Item no.: 839740
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1201944
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1202133
for: Symphonic orchestra
Book
Item no.: 905107
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 821407
Nach originalen Volksmelodien - Orchesterergänzer
for: Salon orchestra
Additional parts
Item no.: 663977
Oper/Operette
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1207048
Kantate nach Moses I, 11, 1-9
for: Erzähler, Männerchor (TTBB) und Orchester
Choir score
Item no.: 751612
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 821110
Two-Step
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1544871
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