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: Voice (soprano/mezzo-soprano), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1615967
mit vereinfachter Klavierbegleitung
Dumb it down
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback)
Item no.: 1615960
Leicht darstellbare Ein-, Auszugs-und Zugabestücke aus Barock, Klassik und Romantik
for: Organ (manuals, ped. ad lib)
Music score
Item no.: 1613364
RV 610
for: 4 soloists (SSAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1612001
BWV 243 (BWV3 243.2)
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1612000
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Organ
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1582673
Quellenkritische Edition in drei Bänden von Jonas Seeberg
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 1570849
String Attack
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1611281
Vereinfachte Klavierbegleitung
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1610645
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, strings, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1565814
Vol. 2: Sonatas 7–12
Score
Item no.: 1559202
on texts by Pietro Metastasio
Volume 2: La Gelosia
for: Voice (alto), strings, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1559025
Edition without fingering
for: Piano [harpsichord]
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1558295
for: Piano [harpsichord]
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1558306
Urtext Edition without fingering
for: Piano [harpsichord]
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1558308
for: Piano [harpsichord]
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1558303
for: Piano [harpsichord]
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1558293
Urtext Edition without fingering
for: Piano [harpsichord]
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1558305
for: 6 soloists (SAATTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1557182
H 18, 19
Musique sacrée française
Urtext
for: 3 voices (SSMez), basso continuo
4 Scores, Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 1557194
für gem Chor und Orgel
Chorpartitur
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSSATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1556911
arranged for Viola solo
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 1011750
Urtext
for: 6 soloists (SAATTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1556049
Version II (1725)
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello (Double bass/ Violone) [Basso continuo] (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1534654
aus dem Oratorium "Der Messias" (1741)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1552428
Notturni
Eizione critica
for: Flute, mandolin
Ensemble score, solo parts
Item no.: 1350917
8 famous works
for: Flute
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1355623
Autograph: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Bärenreiter Facsimile
Score (facsimile hardcover)
Item no.: 1534701
IGW 50
for: 4 harpsichords
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1550300
raccolte ed elaborate da A. Parisotti
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1550268
Cantata for the 1st day of Christmas
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1549505
Embellished slow movements from the Berkeley Manuscript Collection
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1549470
Revised & Extended Edition in Chronological Order
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1549238
Fassung für Klavier solo
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1549129
Band I: 1-4 [Erstdruck]
for: 3 cellos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1549098
für den Konzertvortrag bearbeitet von Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1549063
for: Organ
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1549082
Four Marian antiphons for two high voices
for: 2 voices (SS), basso continuo
3 Scores, Set of parts
Item no.: 1549070
Ausgewählte Concerti für Violoncello und Triosonaten mit obligatem Violoncello
Band 23 aus der Musiksammlung der Grafen von Schönborn-Wiesentheid
for: Cello, strings, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1543961
Opéra in fünf Akten
Symphonien / Fassungen von 1749 und 1756
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1534602
Urtextausgabe
for: 2 cellos [bassoons]
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 1479628
Cantata for Christmas Day
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1478378
Rekonstruktion
for: Oboe, violin, basso continuo
Piano reduction, 2 solo parts
Item no.: 1357783
Musik aus Schweizer Klöstern, Band 3
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1354915
Opéra in five acts RCT 62 B
Version from 1756
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1350835
"Triple Concerto"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Harpsichord, flute, violin, strings, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 817353
Cantata for Easter
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1340640
from "Musae Sionae IX, 1611"
for: Women's choir (SA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 897150