From the beginning of Monteverdi to the end of J.S Bach, browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all the wonderful baroque music on offer with Stretta today!
One of the key features of this period, was the introduction of the figured bass or basso continuo. The continuous, uninterrupted bass line forms the harmonic basis for baroque music. The harmony developed from the sacred, modal style, to the major-minor system that we use today.
Expression in baroque music was shaped by the doctrine of affect. There was a rich system of figures that corresponded to a musical rhetoric, with which human emotion could be portrayed musically.
In Italy, opera emerged as a new form of expression, combining words, text, plot and staging. Other popular musical forms of the time were the concerto grosso, the suite, the fugue, the Baroque Sonata, the cantata and the oratorio. The most famous oratorios of the time were written by J.S Bach, the Christmas Oratorio, St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 2696
Am Neujahrstag
aus "Gemmulae Evangeliorum Musicae ...", Coburg 1623
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4130
aus: Cantionale sacrum
Gotha, 1646
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2948
aus: Dodekatonon Musicum Triciniorum ..., Erfurt 1588
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
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Item no.: 6475
aus: Musae sioniae, 8. Teil
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3081
aus "Musae sioniae", 6. Teil
(Neujahr)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2443
aus "Musae sioniae", 9. Teil
für Männerchor (TTB)
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2111
aus "Geistliche Gesänge Augspurgischer Confession", Berlin 1641
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 3303
Psalm 127
aus "Psalmen Davids, Hiebevorn in Teutzsche Reimen gebracht durch D. Cornelium Beckern ..."
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 3008
Kanon zu zwei gleichen Stimmen
aus: Compendium musicae (Augsburg 1591)
for: Women's choir (2 voices) [male choir]
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Item no.: 3021
aus "Musae Sioniae" 6. Teil
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1705
aus "Musae Sioniae" (1609)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1140
Kanon zu zwei Stimmen, aus "Compendium musicae" (Augsburg, 1591)
for: Mixed choir (SB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1800
Canon for three voices
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
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Item no.: 3105
von der Siegreichen Aufferstehung unsers HERRN Jesu Christi
aus: Haußmusic Geistlicher Gesäng
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 5320
for: Solo voice (high), choir (one voice), basso continuo
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Item no.: 1114
aus: "Fuenfftzig Geistliche Lieder vnd Psalmen ..."
Nürnberg 1586
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4115
aus dem "Wittenbergisch deutsch Geistlich Gesangbüchlein", 1551
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 2730
aus: Dodekatonon Musicum Triciniorum ..., Erfurt 1588
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
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Item no.: 6477
Psalm 150
aus "Psalmen Davids, Hiebevorn in Teutzsche Reimen gebracht durch D. Cornelium Beckern ..."
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 3070
aus "Musae sioniae", 9. Teil
für gemischten Chor (SAM)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 2110
aus: "Ein schön geistlich Gesangbuch ..." , Jena 1609
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3845
Kanon zu vier Stimmen in der Unterquarte
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 5419
aus: Dodekatonon Musicum Triciniorum ..., Erfurt 1588
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
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Item no.: 6476
Hymnus in Dominicis et Feriis Adventus Domini
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3535
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1435
Psalm 1
aus "Psalmen Davids, Hiebevorn in Teutzsche Reimen gebracht durch D. Cornelium Beckern ..."
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 4287
aus dem "Wittenbergisch deutsch Geistlich Gesangbüchlein", 1551
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
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Item no.: 2731
aus dem "Wittenbergisch deutsch Geistlich Gesangbüchlein", 1551
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2732
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4852
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4221
Aria zum 1. Sonntag nach Epiphanias
aus "Neue geistliche auf die Sonntag durchs gantze Jahr gerichtete Andachten ..."
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 4513
aus "Musicalisch Kurtzweil" (Nürnberg, 1611)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2915
aus "Neue Teutsche Geistliche Lieder, mit dreien Stimmen, nach Art der Welschen Villanellen ..."
Augsburg, 1591
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 3582
aus: Sacred Hymns, Anthems, and Versicles
London, 1766
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 5779
from "The Second Booke of Songes or Ayres of foure partes with Tableture for the Lute", 1600
for: Mixed choir (SATB), lute [harpsichord]
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Item no.: 3335
from "Ayres or Phantasticke Spirites for Three Voices", 1608
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4301
für zwei Stimmen und Generalbass ad lib.
aus: Musae Sioniae, 9. Teil
for: Women's choir (SS) [2 solo voices]; organ ad lib.
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Item no.: 2790
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); basso continuo ad lib.
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Item no.: 3597
aus "Musae Sioniae", 9. Teil
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 1626
Communio zum 4. Advent
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4435
Bicinium für Sopran und Alt
aus "Musae sioniae"
for: Women's choir (SA) [2 solo voices]
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Item no.: 3517
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 6129
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1594
Geborn ist der Emanuel
aus "Musae Sioniae" 6. Teil
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2328
from "Ayres or Phantasticke Spirites for Three Voices", 1608
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 4299
aus: „Wirtzgärtleins Deutsch und Lateinischer Geistlicher Lieder ...“, Augsburg, 1619
eingerichtet für Männerchor
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4165
Aria zum 4. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
aus "Neue geistliche auf die Sonntag durchs gantze Jahr gerichtete Andachten ..."
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 3923