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.
Choir score
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Score
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Set of parts
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Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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Piano reduction
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for: Voice, piano
Music score
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for: Chamber ensemble
Buch
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Einzelstimme
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for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Clarinet [2 Clarinets] and Piano
Score
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for: Mixed Ensemble
Score
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for: Mixed Ensemble
Score
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for: 4 recorders (SATB); guitar ad lib.
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for: Mixed Ensemble
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Alto
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: Piano 4 hands
Score
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for: Voice, piano
Score
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for: Voice (soprano), piano
Score
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Music score
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for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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Music score
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Music score
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for: Voice, piano
Music score
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for: Voice, piano
Music score
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for: Solfege
Buch
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Buch
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for: Solfege
Buch
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Voice, piano
OTHER
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for: Voice, piano
Music score
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for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
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for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Mixed choir (ATB), organ
Choir part Alto
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for: Voice, piano
Music score
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Music score
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