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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Russische Musik der Moderne
for: Piano
Music score
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Sevcik Violin Studies
for: Violin
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 383598
The Original Sevcik Violin Studies
for: Violin
Music lesson book
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from Suite No. 2 for Jazz Orchestra
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 170842
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 108824
from Suite N° 2 for Jazz Orchestra
for: 2 accordions (duet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 139804
Easy Concertos and Concertinos
1st Position
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 199422
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 617083
Sevcik Violin Studies (Teaching material, Technique)
for: Violin
Item no.: 199371
arranged for piano
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 686961
47 leichte Etüden in der 1. Lage
Erweiterbar mit Ergänzungsstimme Violine 2
for: 1–2 violins
Music score
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Revised Edition 2006
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 444015
The Original Edition
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 770308
for two pianos
for: Piano, orchestra
Piano reduction (2 piano's)
Item no.: 109179
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 108784
Russische Musik der Moderne
Revidierte Neuauflage 1998
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
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Evening Blessing from the Fairy-Tale Opera "Hänsel und Gretel"
for: 2 voices, piano
Piano score
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Eight Classic Solos for the Student Cellist
for: Cello, piano
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Leicht spielbare Klassik-Hits aus der Barock– bis zur Neuzeit
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
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153 Progressive Piano Pieces
No. 1-36
New Definitive Edition
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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für Flöte und Klavier
for: Flute, piano
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Seven pieces for piano
for: Piano
Music score
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Volume 1: Femmes de Légende
Edition in eleven volumes
for: Piano
Music score
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Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 602382
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Arrangement for Piano
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 663229
for: Organ
Music score
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121 Lieder für Singstimme(n) und Klavier / Gitarre
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Songbook
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Bärenreiter Urtext
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Music score (Urtext edition)
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for: Voice, piano
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für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, parts
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pour flûte seule
ed. revue et corrigée par P. Butin
for: Flute
Music score
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for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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1st Position
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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Volume 1: Sonatas 1–5
Russian Piano Classics (Authentic Edition)
for: Piano
Music score
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Edition Peters Green Series
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 336570
for: Organ
Music score
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(Urtext)
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 617082
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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Russische Klavierwerke für Kinder und Jugendliche
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Flute, piano
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for: Organ
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with marked and unmarked string parts
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
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for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
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for: Flute
Music lesson book
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for: Classical guitar
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