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.
Droemmarna
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105710
for: Woodwind ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 830195
sinfonisches Blasorchester
Direktion
for: Concert band
Direktion
Item no.: 902046
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1530572
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 837866
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 820765
Burletta. Concert piece for violin and orchestra Op. 97
Violin & Orchestra
for: Violin, orchestra
Item no.: 1344337
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 996949
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 851415
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1110976
for: Flute, orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 1171693
Sudien und Übungen
for: Violin II
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1212057
for: Concert band [Fanfare (brass & saxophones)]
Conductors part, set of parts
Item no.: 1582447
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1593915
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1069741
Klassik
for: Xylophone, piano
Book
Item no.: 1195435
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1111184
March
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1064793
Studienpartitur
Study score
Item no.: 1621559
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 886654
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 1324356
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110276
Medley Overture
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1065970
Originale Unterhaltungsmusik
for: Salon orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1590537
for: Brass band
Set of parts
Item no.: 1143236
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 858279
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1147932
Southern Music
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 925857
Flower Song
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1013367
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1141589
March
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1069712
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1144578
Tuba Solo
for: Tuba
Music score
Item no.: 835929
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1211995
for: Trumpet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1090337
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1171404
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1145415
Det Egna Landet (Our Native Land) Op. 92
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1147446
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1212255
op.67
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Music score
Item no.: 683696
for: TTBB and Orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1171395
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1531194
Ich nach dem uralten Rechte
for: Bass guitar
Piano reduction
Item no.: 776626
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1143189
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1212618
Finale
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 864059
Oper/Operette
for: Libretto
Lyrics
Item no.: 1356406
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