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.
Tudor Church Music
for: Mixed choir (ATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 123440
für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor
Das Musikblatt
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 387932
für 10 Instrumentalstimmen in 2 Chören
for: Mixed ensemble (10 parts)
Conductor score
Item no.: 380322
für 6-stimmigen gemischten Chor, Streicher und Orgel
Text: Lukas 21, 34-36
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Vocal score
Item no.: 380938
Festmotette für 19 Vokalstimmen in 4 Chören (Instrumentalstimmen ad lib.)
Aus: Symphoniae Sacrae
for: 19 Singstimmen INST
Score
Item no.: 379371
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 321864
Klassik
for: SATB Alto Organ Accompaniment
Choir score
Item no.: 321822
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321816
Geistliche Musik
for: SATB Brass Instruments String Instruments Organ Accompaniment
Book
Item no.: 577425
Woman, why weepest thou?
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168730
Gesamtausgabe
for: für 3 Singstimmen und Instrumente
Partitur
Item no.: 124510
Ensemble Music For Recorders
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 377650
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1326894
für fünf Stimmen
Monteverdi-Gesamtausgabe Bd. 3
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 457140
Renaissance Music
for: 4 recorders (SATB/SAAT/SSAB/SATT/ATTB/AATB)
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 1209609
for: Descant recorder
Item no.: 279176
Philharmonia Taschenpartituren
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Study score
Item no.: 1115039
Eine Einführung
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 1019467
for: Lute
Item no.: 549726
Italienisches Madrigal Nr. 16
for: Choir
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 881898
Die fünfstimmigen Motetten, Nr. 1-12
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Basso continuo
Stimme, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 871846
Album für 4 Blockflöten (SATB) oder andere Melodieinstrumente
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Ensemble score (anthology)
Item no.: 446306
Psalm 136
aus "Psalmen Davids"
for: Capellchor (SSATB)
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 484977
Napoli 1576
for: Harpsichord
Music score
Item no.: 1011480
Ed. K. Gilbert - Volume I
for: Harpsichord or 2 Harpsichords
Score
Item no.: 146609
from "Sonate et Canzoni, Libro sesto" (Venice, 1636)
Music for Brass (Robert King) 43
for: Brass ensemble (7 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 647384
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123984
Hinshaw Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1058286
Hinshaw Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902764
Georg Rhau. Musikdrucke aus den Jahren 1538-1545, 7
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115788
Psalm 2
aus "Psalmen Davids"
for: Gemischte Chöre (4)
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 115098
Klassik
for: 5-Part Flexible Band
Score
Item no.: 1183031
Klassik
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1178854
Klassik
for: 4-Part Flexible Band
Score
Item no.: 1179152
Werke für Gamben oder Blockflöten
for: 5 Viole da gamba / 5 Blockflöten, Laute
Score
Item no.: 482521
for: 4 clarinets
Sheet music
Item no.: 1579168
aus dem 2. Buch der Toccaten, Canconen...
for: Guitar
Item no.: 113358
Heitere Fantasie
for: gemischter Chor (SSATB) mit Streichern
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 216591
Alte Musik in mehrstimmigen Sätzen für Flöten, historische Bordun- und Blasinstrumente
Spiralbindung
for: Flexible ensemble
Ensemble score
Item no.: 350176
Tre Messe
for: Organ (manuals) [harpsichord]
Item no.: 225134
Mit Galliarde und Almayne für Mandoline und Gitarre
for: Mandolin, guitar
Item no.: 130192
Recent Researches In The Music Of The Baroque Era Vol 28
for: Voice, basso continuo
Item no.: 484646
in neuer Übertragung und mit ausführlichem Kommentar von Marc Lewon
for: Voice, instruments
Music score
Item no.: 492978
First complete edition with full commentary
for: Descant recorder
Music score
Item no.: 200593
aus: Kleine geistliche Konzerte II
for: Mixed choir (SSB) [male chorus (TTB)], basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 423224
for: Voice (tenor), flute, organ
Ensemble score
Item no.: 635511
Favola in musica in one prologue and five acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489942
MarienvesperSV 206
for: SSAATTTTBB, Orchester
Klavierauszug
Item no.: 289252
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