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.
I.-III. Lage
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1654994
I.-III. Lage
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1654999
I.-III. Lage
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1654998
I.-III. Lage
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1654985
Flex-Band Grade 3
for: Flexible wind band
Score
Item no.: 1654719
"Cessato il suon dell'armi"
SC 3
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1654454
"Cessato il suon dell'armi"
SC 3
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1654453
Theory and practice
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 1654600
for clarinet, cello and piano
for: Clarinet, cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1654614
original for violin and piano
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1653667
Flex-Band Grade 3
for: Flexible wind band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1653419
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1615872
From Tosca
for: 2 trumpets, horn, 2 trombones, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1643696
Ersetzt SIK2224
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1640577
The Year 1905
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1640580
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1211442
for: Chor SSA, Flöten (2), Oboen (2), Klarinetten (2), Fagotte (2), Hörner (4), Trompeten (2), Posaunen (3), Pauke, Harfe, Orgel, Violinen (2), Viola, Cello, Kontrabass [Klavier zum Einstudieren]
Score
Item no.: 1655403
Giv mig ej guld, ej glans, ej prakt - Jouluvirsi - Julvisa op. 1/4
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1585284
Weltlich
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1585283
Weltlich
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1585281
Intermezzo sinfonico
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1651313
bearbeitet für 4 Violoncelli, von Harald Feller
for: 4 cellos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1651250
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1651273
Faksimile der autographen Particellreinschrift
for: Piano, orchestra
Score (facsimile)
Item no.: 1645830
for: Violin, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1651140
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1558948
(Six canonic inventions for two voices)
for: Harpsichord
Music score
Item no.: 1650971
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1650962
from "Lo, the full, final sacrifice"
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) und Orgel
Choir score
Item no.: 1650975
op. 102a
for: Viola, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1650917
Worte eines französischen Weihnachtsliedes
for: Frauenchor (SSAA) mit Sopran-Solo und Streichquintett
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 1650943
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet) [string orchestra]
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1646495
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet) [string orchestra]
Violin 3 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1646494
édition bon(n)orgue Vol. 34
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1646966
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1640578
for: Flute, clarinet
Item no.: 1646250
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 1646288
für Klaviertrio (2. Violine, Kontrabass, C+B Instr. ad lib.)
edition pro salon
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1646313
D
for: Flute, piano
Instrumental Solo & Accompaniment
Item no.: 1646083
D
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1646024
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1646005
F
for: Flute, piano
Instrumental Solo & Accompaniment
Item no.: 1645981
Gm
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1645928
GESAMTAUSGABE
for: Voice, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1645499
Den Weg ich geh', ganz nah mit Gott
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 1645376
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1645312
Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1645261
for: Piano 4-Hands
Buch
Item no.: 1643211
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