“Where words fail, music speaks.” Hans Christian Andersen, Danish Author
What do we mean by “Classical Music”? There are classics in every artistic discipline, and music is no exception. Here at Stretta, you can find sheet music and scores from all periods of music history, and all musical forms! If you would like to know more about the meaning and origin of the term “Classical Music”, click here:
The term classical music, in a broader sense, separates what is often called “Serious Music” from Music for Entertainment and Folk Music . Classical music encompasses all periods of modern history, driven by Western composers from the Medieval Period, through the Baroque and Romantic Periods, to the modern classical music of today.
In a more narrow sense, The Classical Period means the historical period of classical music from around 1750 to 1800. It was a long period of musical development, from “Pre-Classical”, to “ Musical Sensibility”, through to “Music of the Enlightenment”. Baroque tonality continued to develop and transform, and became more complex, perfectly demonstrated through the music of the three“ Viennese Classics” Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. There was a departure from figured bass and counterpoint, and a move towards clearly defined melody and accompaniment. Many important musical works, such as the symphony and the string quartet developed, and really came into their own in the classical period, and classical music itself also began to be more and more accessible, moving out of the court and church, and into the public eye.
In Ancient Rome, the term “classicus” was reserved for a citizen in the highest tax bracket. In a figurative sense, something exemplary or immaculate is called ’classic’, a good literary example being the ’Weimar Classics’ of Schiller and Goethe. One of the highest of accolades, being named a ’classic’, is almost always awarded posthumously, an artist is very rarely referred to as a ’classic’ during their lifetime.
for: Voice, guitar [lute]
Score
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for: Flute
Music lesson book
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for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 862045
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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for: Latin percussion
Music score
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for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Mit Revisionsbericht
Hugo Wolf Kritische Gesamtausgabe (Complete edition)
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 475685
13 Duets for 4-Hand Piano...& Everyone else!
for: Piano 4 hands
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1354890
for: Piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 134534
for: Trumpet
Music score
Item no.: 107098
14 intermediate studies for solo violin
for: Violin
Music score
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for: Piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 469152
for: Cello
Music lesson book
Item no.: 296267
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 137061
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 223380
Lyric book
Item no.: 318291
(Teaching material)
for: Piano
Music lesson book, playback-CD
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello [3 violins, cello]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 311182
for: Organ [harpsichord]
Music lesson book
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for: Harpsichord [piano]
Music score (Urtext edition)
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for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 118931
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 180029
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1192478
for: Classical guitar
Music score (reprint)
Item no.: 119067
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 632252
for: Cello
Music lesson book
Item no.: 637075
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 657829
for: Solo voice (S/A), mixed choir (SATB), jazz ensemble
Piano reduction
Item no.: 680899
20 of Ludovico Einaudi's most popular piano works
for: Piano
Music score, online media
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for: Classical guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 132129
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1149288
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 646478
A cylce of six songs
for: Voice (tenor), piano; 2 violins, viola, cello ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 635297
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 620066
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 443554
Diary entries, personal messages
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 669518
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 255023
for: Violin
Item no.: 290297
Book 7
The FJH Pianist's Curriculum
for: Piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 655945
for: Piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 586028
for Violoncello and Pianoforte
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 679977
for: Mixed choir; basso continuo ad lib.
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 303691
Etudes spéciales
Band 1, Etüden Nr. 1 - Nr. 30 (Lehrmaterial, Technik) (Teaching material, Technique)
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 359660
Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 6th Sunday after Trinity
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285540
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 180657
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 199441