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.
Klassik
for: Piano Quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 267193
Klassik
for: Voice (high)
Book
Item no.: 267188
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 264201
Oper/Operette
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 263866
for: Mixed Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 275349
Nr. 2 der "Quatre pièces pour orgue"
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 275230
Schule
for: Solfege
Buch
Item no.: 269361
Neubearbeitung f. modernes symphonisches Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Stimmensatz
Item no.: 268662
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 268628
Zwei Klaviere 4hd
for: 2 pianos
Item no.: 268621
for: Organ
Item no.: 314362
Pour Trombone Et Piano
for: Trombone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 313986
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 312178
for: Cello
Item no.: 313137
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 563572
Orgelmusik Der Klassik Und Romantik
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 551877
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 241011
Klassik
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 240932
Klassik
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 240789
Klassik
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 239726
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 239333
Buch
Item no.: 248958
Buch
Item no.: 252635
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 250541
for: Opera
Buch
Item no.: 250311
Buch
Item no.: 250293
"Sumer is icumen in"
for: gemischter Chor (STBar) und Instrumente
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 293582
for: TRP-B 3
Item no.: 297064
for: Guitar [lute]
Item no.: 296926
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 909722
Ballet in seven sections
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 906134
Oper in zwei Teilen (neun Bildern) nach Friedrich Schiller
eingerichtet von Boris Blacher und Lotte Ingrisch
for: Voices, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 680801
No. 1 The Boatman's Dance
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Book
Item no.: 647816
7 Männerchöre Nr. 3op. 38/3
for: für Chor TTBB
Choir score
Item no.: 1135479
op. 17
for: für Chor TTBB
Choir score
Item no.: 1135398
Dance from the opera Koanga
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 868173
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 907746
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 910962
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 909483
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 908860
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 906782
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 897934
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