“Music is not man’s invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits... it can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind.” - Tomás Luis de Victoria
The Renaissance Period is considered the golden age of Spanish Music. Browse our sheet music and scores, take a look at the Villancico, the Romance or the Tiento, and explore the wide world of Spanish Renaissance Music with Stretta Music today!
The Spanish Renaissance Motets and the Spanish Renaissance Masses were the most popular forms of sacred music in Spain during the Renaissance Period. Here are a few important Spanish Renaissance composers:
The most popular secular music of the Spanish Renaissance Period included the Villancico, the Romance and the Tiento. Many of these works have survived since they were part of the most important songbooks of the period, the Cancionero de Palacio, the Cancionero de Medinaceli, the Cancionero de la Colombina and the Cancionero de Upsala. Many of these secular works have remained anonymous to this day, although a few Secular Spanish Renaissance Composers are known:
The most commonly used instruments of the Spanish Renaissance Period were the lute, the Spanish Vihuela and the organ. Here are a few Spanish Renaissance Instrumental Composers:
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Organ manuals [harpsichord/piano]
4 music scores (Urtext)
Item no.: 582227
Die Tabulatur 12
Ausgewählte Werke in ihrer Originalnotation mit Übertragungen für Laute und Gitarre
for: Lute [guitar/piano]
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 214826
from Three Books of Music in Tablature for the Vihuela
for: Vihuela [guitar]
Music score
Item no.: 1684867
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 585245
Oxford Choral Classics Octavos
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 332575
Pujol 1009
Les Vihuelistes du XVIe siècle
for: Classical guitar [lute]
Music score
Item no.: 1659023
Sechs Werke
for: Mixed choir (5–8 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660406
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1651827
Book
Item no.: 1661187
arrangiert für vier Posaunen
for: 4 trombones (ATTB)
Score
Item no.: 1654769
Musica Instrumentalis
for: 2 recorders (SB), basso continuo
Music score
Item no.: 195238
5 Werke
for: Mixed choir (5–8 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660408
18 Werke
Motetten, Psalmen, Antiphonen, Sequenzen, Hymni
for: Mixed choir (8-12 parts); organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1661605
für Gitarre
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1652151
Edition Lockenhaus
for: 3 guitars
Item no.: 313024
for: 2 GCH (SSAB SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1655592