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.
Mimram Music (komplett) (complete)
for: 3 recorders (SAT)
Partitur, Stimmen (Streicher 3S/3A/3T)
Item no.: 482775
for: Voice (soprano), 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos
Set of parts
Item no.: 366807
for: Viola, piano
Book
Item no.: 131695
for: Trumpet (C), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 107225
for three violins
for: 3 violins
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1109083
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 359010
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 212562
for: Tuba, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 613401
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 550268
for: für Klavier
Item no.: 113430
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 113408
for: für Sopran, Flöte, Viola und Violoncello
Partitur und Stimmen
Item no.: 182198
for: für Bläserquintett
Score
Item no.: 113271
for: für Gesang und Klavier
Item no.: 223900
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 697723
for: 3 trumpets
Set of parts
Item no.: 171228
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197686
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197656
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 621140
for: Voice (low), piano
Item no.: 565587
for Piano
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 674137
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 190936
for: Guitar
Item no.: 187926
for: Piano, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 176791
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 160551
for: Horn, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 696046
for: Violin; piano ad lib.
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 576423
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 312291
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 224358
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Set of parts
Item no.: 223172
for: String orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 561262
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 216949
Music Drama in One Act op. 54after Oscar Wilde's Poem of the Same Name
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 214248
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 206040
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 108944
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 108885
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 108830
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction
Item no.: 108807
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 108802
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 124970
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 124708
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 124489
for: Violin, cello
Ensemble score
Item no.: 124466
for: Choir and Mixed Ensemble
Study score
Item no.: 411439
for: Piano
Item no.: 378573
for: Piano
Item no.: 378563
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 107224
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos (sextet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 107029
There is a separate Stretta website for the country Worldwide. If your order is to be delivered to this country, you can switch, so that delivery times and shipping conditions are displayed correctly. Your shopping cart and your customer account will remain the same.