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: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 747947
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755718
Kanon
for: Women's choir a cappella
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Item no.: 753974
(Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 753375
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
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Item no.: 747542
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761186
16. Jh. (GL 824 ö)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 725764
(Lob und Dank)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730068
Text: Str. 1: trad. 15. Jahrhundert; Str. 2+3: Mrtin Luther 1524; Mel.: Ebersberg um 1480 (Pfingsten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730051
Bearbeitung des 3stg. "Chor d. Jünglinge" aus "Judas Maccabäus"; Textunterlegung: Johann Eschenburg oder Friedrich Heinrich Ranke (Advent)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730031
Choralsatz aus der Kantate
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 726826
Kanon
for: Women's choir a cappella
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Item no.: 730998
for: Kanon
Music score
Item no.: 1209311
Text: Ps. 51,12,13 (Gottesdienst)
for: 3-stimmiger gemischter Chor (SABar) a cappella und Orgel
Music score
Item no.: 730058
Text: Jes 53,7 (Passion)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753382
Introitus ad primam Missam Nativitatis Xi.
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6101
Christmas Carol
for Mixed Choir and Piano or Organ ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano [organ] ad lib.
Sheet music
Item no.: 2421
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3806
aus: "Erster Teil Kleiner geistlicher Concerte"
for: Women's choir (MezA) [male choir (BarB)], organ
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Item no.: 1947
aus der Missa Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1337887
aus: "Dodekatonon Musicum Triciniorum ..."
Erfurt, 1588
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 5284
aus: Dodekatonon Musicum Triciniorum ..., Erfurt 1588
for: Mixed choir (ATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 6368
aus: "Gemmulae Evangeliorum Musicae ...", Coburg 1623
Dominica 1. Adventus
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3537
aus: "Erster Teil Kleiner geistlicher Concerte"
for: Women's choir (SS) [2 solo voices], organ
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Item no.: 1946
aus O sacrum convivium H. 235
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 1337885
aus: "The First Set of English Madrigals"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3259
aus: Musae Sioniae, Sechster Teil
Wolfenbüttel, 1609
for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo [organ] ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 5347
aus "Il sesto libro de madrigali" (1615)
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1874
for: Chor SSAM
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Item no.: 1337819
aus: "Psalteriolum harmonicum"
Köln, 1642
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 4202
for: Voice (high), basso continuo; choir one voice ad lib.
Sheet music
Item no.: 3052
aus: "Erster Theil Teutscher Villanellen"
Dresden, 1627
for: Mixed choir (SSB) a cappella
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Item no.: 5333
aus der Messen en plein-chant (IIe ton)
for: S Solist, Gemischter Chor (SATB) [Orgel]
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Item no.: 1337857
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
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Item no.: 1337818
aus "The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of foure partes with Tableture for the Lute" (1597)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), lute [harpsichord]
Sheet music
Item no.: 2784
aus: Florilegium Portense, herausgegeben von Erhard Bodenschatz (1576–1636)
for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
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Item no.: 3549
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3576
aus: Magnificat
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), Klavier (Orgel)
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Item no.: 1337872
aus: „Erster Theil Teutscher Villanellen“
Dresden 1627
for: Mixed choir (SSB) a cappella
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Item no.: 6348
aus: "Neue kurtzweilige Teutsche Liedlein mit dreyen stimmen nach art der Welschen Vilanellen"
Nürnberg, 1589
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 5219
aus: Musae Sioniae, Fünffter Theil
Wolfenbüttel, 1607
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 5352
am zweiten Advent
aus: Gemmulae Evangeliorum Musicae ...
Coburg, 1623
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 5844
Kanon
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
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Item no.: 1355845
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
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Item no.: 1339619
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1340358
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1340221
Kanon a 3
for: Kanon a 3, Kantor
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Item no.: 1340216
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1340173