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.
Treasury Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 801396
4 Recercadas from Trattado de glosas (Roma 1553)
for: Viole und Basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 206674
Musik für Gitarre
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 113204
Hinshaw Secular
for: SATB, Keyboard, String Bass, Trumpet, Percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 900611
Hinshaw Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1058821
Hinshaw Concert
for: SATB, 3 ChoirS, a Cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1057667
Die sechs- und siebenstimmigen Motetten, Nr. 13-29
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Gemischter Chor, Basso continuo ad libitum
Chorpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 617770
Studienpartitur (6 Bände im Schuber)
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR A CAPPELLA WELTLICH ALBEN
Item no.: 1345282
à 2 Clav. e Pedale
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1805
aus den "Fiori musicali"
for: 2 trumpets (C), 2 trombones (quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1989
for: Harpsichord [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 2184
Hymnus de virginibus
for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 2832
Offertorium
Psalm 54, 2-3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3369
(Diminution, eingerichtet für Blockflötenquartett)
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 3556
Psalm 1
aus "Psalmen Davids, Hiebevorn in Teutzsche Reimen gebracht durch D. Cornelium Beckern ..."
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 4287
aus "Operum Musicorum Posthumorum, Pars Prima"
Nürnberg, 1643
for: 2 violins [cornetts], viola da gamba [trombone], organ
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 4533
Villanella
eingerichtet für drei Blockflöten
for: 3 recorders (SSA/SST)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 4853
aus: Cantiones ecclesiasticae
München, 1590
Ausgabe für tiefere Stimmen (SATTB)
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5473
aus: "Anderer Theil Kleiner geistlichen Concerten", Dresden 1639
für zwei hohe Stimmen, Bass und Basso continuo, SWV 324
for: Male choir (TTB), basso continuo
Score, choir scores, single parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5479
aus: Cantiones sacrae
Nürnberg, 1591
for: Mixed choir (SAATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5689
aus "Neue teutsche Gesang, nach Art der welschen Madrigalien und Canzonetten"
Augsburg, 1596
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6478
a tre voci
for: Streichtrio oder andere Instrumente
Score
Item no.: 739091
for: gemischtes Instrumental-Ensemble
Music score
Item no.: 724833
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Study score
Item no.: 743440
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756478
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 792443
Psalm from the vesper of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1610
for: gemischter Chor (SATB/SAB) und Basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 794035
Allerley Frantzösische Däntze zu fünf Stimmen 161 2 S-Bfl, A-Bfl, 2 T-Bfl, B-Bfl Mönkemeyer
for: 5 instruments
Score
Item no.: 418060
Edition Schott
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 749437
for: Voice, piano
Book
Item no.: 963035
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1582253
for: 2 Gitarren (Vihuelas)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1582409
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668270
for: Blockflötenquartett (SSAT)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1653636
für Gitarre
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1652151
aus: "Tabulatura Darinnen Etzliche Präludia, Toccaten und Couranten uff das Clavir gesetzt"
Leipzig, 1645
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 4455
sopra li tuoni a quattro
for: Tasteninstrument oder beliebige Einzelinstrumente
Partitur = Klavier/Cembalo/Orgel
Item no.: 747302
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1378
aus "Der Fluyten Lust-Hof", 2. Teil (1646)
for: Descant recorder
Sheet music
Item no.: 2728
aus: Centum Sacri Concentus
Frankfurt, 1615
for: Voice (high/medium), basso continuo
Sheet music
Item no.: 5806
Heitere Fantasie
for: gemischter Chor (SSATB) mit Streichern
Score
Item no.: 754408
zu 3 Stimmen
for: 3 Blockflöten (SSA) oder 3 Fideln
Ensemble score
Item no.: 748145
aus: Newe kurtzweilige Teutsche Liedtlein Zu dreyen Stimmen Welche gantz Lieblich zu singen vnd auff Instrumenten Zugebrauchen
Helmstedt, 1587
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5726
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 739612
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760997
from the "Troisième Livre de danceries"
for: 4 Blockflöten (SATB od. ATTB) oder andere Melodie-Instrumente (Violen, Flöten); Schlagwerk ad libitum
Ensemble score
Item no.: 754140
aus "The First Booke of Ballets", Londen 1595
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1461
for: 4 recorders (SAAT)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 731353
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