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.
für drei Fagotte
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
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für Orchester
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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für 5 Blockflöten (ATBBKbb)
for: Recorder ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1632333
Sudien und Übungen
for: Flute
Music score
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for: Voice, piano
Music score
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Suite No. 1 for Symphonic Winds - IV. Passo Mezzo e Mascherada
RWS Symphony Band Series
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1059689
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 994540
for: Bläserquintett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 993996
Treasury Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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Little Big Band Series
for: Flexible big band (6 wind instruments, rhythm-group); more winds ad lib.
Score
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in A Major, Opus 51
for Violin and Piano
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for two marimbists on one marimba
for: Marimba (2 players)
2 Performance scores
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Performance-Easy Limited Edition
for: Marching band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 814502
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 941
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 680814
Oper in neun Bildern (in zwei Teilen)
Text nach Franz Kafka eingerichtet von Boris Blacher und Heinz von Cramer
for: Voices, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 680810
von Bertolt Brecht
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 680760
for oboe and piano
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Fassung für zwei Klaviere
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction
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Boosey and Hawkes Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1212376
Tonight from West Side Story
for: Instrumental
CD-ROM
Item no.: 1211896
for: Ukulele
Music score (with TABs)
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für Klavier
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 1199054
Arie des Cavaradossi aus Tosca
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1199005
Choral
for: TTBB + Brass Ensemble and Percussion
Choir score
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Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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Score
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 899012
Score
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 898198
Score
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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First Edition Piano Trio Score and Parts
for: Piano Trio
Score, Parts
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
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Score and Parts
for: Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello
Score, Parts
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Score
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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Ballad
The Great Classics
for: Concert band
Score
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Concerto No. 1, 3rd Movement
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
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Suite of five movements from Rossini
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 777
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: 3 Bb Clarinets and Bass Clarinet
Score, Parts
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aus "Cavalleria rusticana"
for: String orchestra
Set of parts
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for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Organ
Ensemble score
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for: Low Voice and Piano With Viola [Or Violin] Accompaniment
Book
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Symphonisches Pastoral
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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Choralkantate
for: Sopran solo ad libitum, Alt solo ad libitum, Tenor solo ad libitum, Bass solo ad libitum, Gemischter Chor (SATB)
Choir score
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Transcriptions for solo instrument and piano
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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from Rodeo
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 866680
(Volume 2: Nos. 37+66)
for: Piano
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for: Mixed Choir [SATB] and Organ
Choir score
Item no.: 863243
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