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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apllied to 12 full compositions and arrangements
for: Concert band
Clarinet 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 432269
66 zweistimmige Singübungen
for: Children's choir
Noten als Druckausgabe nur noch in der englischen Version erhältlich (BH 3561)
Item no.: 779981
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 778613
"Des Knaben Wunderhorn"; Nr. 8 aus: Acht Chorlieder
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 740356
aus der Oper "Hänsel und Gretel" (Adelheid Wette, nach "Des Knaben Wunderhorn")
for: Women's choir (SMezA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 743573
aus op. 19
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 737050
Melodrama after the Poem by Ludwig Uhland
for: Sprechstimme und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 760547
No. 4 The Waterlily (C sharp minor)
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 760524
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 324189
Komödie für Musik in drei Aufzügen von Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Piano reduction
Item no.: 760654
Walzer
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 760561
arranged by Samuel Dushkin
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 726756
60 choral highlights for upper voices
From 16th century to the present day
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 659893
for: Women's choir, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 659892
Ramble on the love-duet edited for piano by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1927)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 760522
op. 61
for: großes Orchester und Orgel
Study score
Item no.: 760506
No. 1 Cornflower (A major)
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 760270
arranged for Orchestra by the composer
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 726741
arranged for string quartet by Wolfgang Birtel (2010)
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 737037
No. 1 "A wand'rer by the tempest driven" (G major)
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759415
No. 5 Winterliebe (low B major)
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 760456
Text by Richard Dehmel
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 779980
Nr. 1 An die Nacht (hoch Es-Dur)
for: Singstimme und Orchester oder Klavier
Piano reduction
Item no.: 760680
"Toselli-Serenade"
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1566013
No. 6 Boy's Love (low B minor)
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 732665
Nr. 4 Als mir dein Lied erklang (hoch Fis-Dur)
for: Singstimme und Orchester oder Klavier
Piano reduction
Item no.: 760474
No. 4 Winterweihe
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 747611
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 315482
for: Mixed choir, organ [piano]
Music score (piano and organ accompaniment)
Item no.: 631890
No. 4 The Dawn (Bb major)
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 760657
for: zweistimmiger Chor und Klavier, Alt Blockflöte ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 1566366
Music Drama in One Act after Oscar Wilde's Poem of the Same Name
Study score
Item no.: 1209581
aus "Die Planeten", Thema aus dem 4. Satz
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1566015
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 315030
for double bass and piano
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 131698
Eine bürgerliche Komödie mit sinfonischen Zwischenspielen in zwei Aufzügen
Lyric book
Item no.: 1341114
Walzer
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 739821
Transcribed for two pianos by Victor Babin
for: 2 pianos
Spielpartitur 2 Spielpartituren enthalten
Item no.: 726953
No. 3 A Welcome Vision
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 747449
No. 1 Alone in the Forest (low Eb major)
for: Singstimme und Orchester oder Klavier
Piano reduction
Item no.: 747983
Nr. 3 Säusle, liebe Myrthe! (hoch G-Dur)
for: Singstimme und Orchester oder Klavier
Piano reduction
Item no.: 747839
"Ach, du wolltest mich nicht deinen Mund küssen lassen"
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 747516
Tragödie in einem Aufzug von Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Piano reduction
Item no.: 738645
No. 1 Serenade
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 760651
No. 3 Retrospect (high Bb minor)
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 760643
No.1 Cornflowers (Db major)
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 760468
des Regiments Königs-Jäger zu Pferde No.1
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 747464
Walzer
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 729402
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