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.
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Score
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An Original Rag
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Concert band
Score
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Score, Parts
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Score
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op. 114
for: Salon orchestra
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Four Hands
for: Piano
Score
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For Violin and Chamber Orchestra
for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
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Klavier
Solostimme
for: Piano
Ensemble score
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Study score
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Score and Parts
for: Symphonic orchestra
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Piano Solo
for: Piano
Music score
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Discovery Choral
for: Choir
CD
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Score and Parts
for: Alto Saxophone and Saxophone Quartet
Score, Parts
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Score
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 316077
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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Score and Parts
for: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Strings and Double Bass
Score, Parts
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The Great Classics
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 883675
Part II: 3rd and 4th movement
Belkis, Queen of Sheba-Suite for Wind Orchestra
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 880646
Southern Music
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 927949
Southern Music
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 926514
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 2
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for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 1
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Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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Overture
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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from the Classical Symphony op. 25
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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Orgelmusik Der Klassik Und Romantik
for: Organ
Single part Organ
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No. 1 The Boatman's Dance
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Book
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Bearbeitungen für Blechbläser und Orgel
organ plus brass 4
Single part Horn
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for: Double bass, orchestra
Study score
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for: Piano
Music score
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Music score
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Single part(n)
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Flöte und Klavier
CD
for: Flute, piano
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for: 3 Blockflöten (SAT) und Klavier
Einzelstimme
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Einzelstimme
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op. 88
for: Alt-Blockflöte (Flöte), Violine und Violoncello
Study score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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Blasorchester
Einzelstimme
for: Concert band
Einzelstimme
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Musik für Blechbläser und Tasteninstrumente
for: Trumpet, trombone, organ
Bläserpartitur
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Choralkantate
Single part Viola
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Liedsatz
aus "Der Jahrkreis" op. 5 (1933)
for: Gemischter Chor: SAMSt, Flöte, Violine, Viola
Score
Item no.: 873412
Kevin Mayhew Ensemble Series
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
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Kritische Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Leoš Janáček B/5,1
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
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for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir part Soprano
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