The Renaissance saw the musical shackles of the Medieval Period being broken, and both secular and sacred music became livelier and more expressive, and through the developments of printed music, more widely available. Browse our sheet music and scores, and pick up a mass or a madrigal today!
The driving force of the Renaissance was humanism (from the Latin “hummanus” or human), the dogmas of the church were overturned by science, and art was inspired by antiquity and a new, harmonious worldview. Vocal polyphony was very much at the forefront of Renaissance music, and a desire for perfect form, and rational, logical sophistication emerged. In church music, the cyclic form of the Mass, Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei was still widely deployed, and musical settings of Motets, Litanies, Psalms and Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis broadened the congregation’s musical experience. Secular vocal music also developed through the madrigals, and polyphonic and unison songs.
In contrast to the Medieval Period, the Renaissance began with a new design principle, imitation. A short, lively theme moves from voice to voice, and the composer creates a counter-melody to compliment it. Elements from the Medieval however were still present, and the “cantus firmus” or fixed chant was often a device of choice in the Renaissance. The cantus firmus takes a theme from Gregorian Chant or Folk Music, but the composer uses augmentation, elongates the note values, and uses the cantus firmus as the harmonic basis for this polyphonic work. From here, the canon soon evolved, which was the clear precursor to the baroque fugue.
The Renaissance marked a big step in the development of instrumental music, and a significant move towards independence for solo instruments, and chamber groups. Traditionally instruments were used as accompaniment for choir or solo singing or for dance music, but through the Renaissance Period, pure instrumental solo or ensemble music became more and more popular. In particular, Renaissance Organ Music experienced a great boom due to the technical development of the instrument, and it was during the 16th century that more vocal instrumental music started emerging, and the first works featuring basso continuo were written.
Italienisches Madrigal Nr. 4
for: Choir
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 115656
Musica Britannica 10
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 556693
for: Lute
Item no.: 552407
for: Double Bass and BC
Book
Item no.: 585616
Ausgewählte Stücke
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 172123
Pujol 1009
Les Vihuelistes du XVIe siècle
for: Classical guitar [lute]
Music score
Item no.: 393992
for: Vihuela [guitar]
Music score
Item no.: 393804
Orgelwerke Band 1/1
Die Unika der Turiner Tabulatur (Teil I
13/1 (Gesamtausgabe) (Complete edition)
for: Organ
Item no.: 202806
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204393
aus "Banchetto musicale 1617"
for: Streicher oder Bläser
Score, Parts
Item no.: 199089
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 200677
for: BLECHBLASINSTRUMENTE HORN VIER UND MEHR HÖRNER
Item no.: 485798
aus `Libro de misica para Vihuela intitulado Orphenica lyra´
Sevilla 1554
for: Vihuela [guitar]
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 363043
for: 4 recorders (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 549986
Chamber Music Of The Seventeenth Century 17
Score, Parts
Item no.: 364415
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 349287
A Due Cori 21
for: 8 INST (SATB ATTB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 371265
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 366291
A Due Cori 26
for: 7 GES (INST) (SSA SATB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 366634
A Due Cori 55
for: 8 melodic instruments (SSAATTBB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 368302
für Brassquintett
Partitur und Stimmen
for: Brass quintet
Sheet music
Item no.: 597073
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 2
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 561712
Psalm 8
aus "Psalmen Davids"
for: 3. Violine, 1. Posaune
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 461876
for: 4 Saxophone (SATBar), [Perkussion]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 466802
Heft 2
Das Chorwerk
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 378176
4 Posaunen & Organ
for: 4 trombones, organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 596949
for: 3 trombones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 493196
Denkmaeler Der Tonkunst In Oesterreich 10~Dtoe 10
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 103406
für 4 Posaunen
Partitur und Stimmen
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 596029
for: 4 Instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 346595
English Instrumental Music 23
for: 6 INST (Viola da gamba)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 471892
for: 3 violas
Score, Parts
Item no.: 487618
for: Mixed choir (8 parts) a cappella
Item no.: 195746
Bearbeitung für Männerchor
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 195733
6st gemischter Chor
Corona Harmonica
Item no.: 119506
Musica Practica 1
for: 3–5 melodic instruments
Score
Item no.: 159282
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 476366
Sonate concertate, Libro primo (1629)
for: 2 SBFL (VL) VDG (POS) BC
Item no.: 183613
for: Violin, guitar
Item no.: 156434
for: Clavecimbal
Buch
Item no.: 142263
Teil II
Consortium
for: 5 recorders (SSATB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 134273
Feierlicher Choral
for: Concert band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 137673
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 476385
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 476384
Tragedia di lieto fine in un prologo e tre atti (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 460643
Musik Fuer Blechblaeser 6
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 151355
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