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.
Novello Tudor Anthems
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 646673
Motette
for: Voice
Book
Item no.: 324865
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 487851
Villancico Pastoril
for: Classical guitar
Single edition
Item no.: 559369
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 310805
for: Organ
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 549998
Italienische Diminutionslehre 1
for: Flute [violin]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 195188
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 559564
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 113363
Novello Choral Pops
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 558731
Just Brass 51
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 315354
Just Brass 10
for: 4 trumpets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 279938
Renaissance Masters
for: SSAATB
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 174097
First complete edition with full commentary
for: Descant recorder
Music score
Item no.: 200593
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
aus "Der Fluyten Lust-Hof"
for: Descant recorder
Sheet music
Item no.: 2213
darin ein Engel die geburt Christi den hirten verkündigt
aus "Trutz-Nachtigall", 1649
for: Voice (high), basso continuo; organ ad lib.
Sheet music
Item no.: 2753
Hymnus de virginibus
for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 2832
aus: "L’Orfeo" (1609)
eingerichtet für Blockflötenquintett und Basso continuo ad lib.
for: 5 recorders (SSATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 3156
aus: "Tratado de glosas ...", Rom 1553
eingerichtet für Blockflötenquartett
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 3340
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: Geistliche und Weltliche Teutsche Geseng
eingerichtet für gemischten Chor (SAATB)
Wittenberg, 1566
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5693
aus "Neue teutsche Gesang, nach Art der welschen Madrigalien und Canzonetten"
Augsburg, 1596
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6478
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 668217
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 668218
aus: "Tabulatura Darinnen Etzliche Präludia, Toccaten und Couranten uff das Clavir gesetzt"
Leipzig, 1645
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 4455
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
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
aus "The First Booke of Ballets", Londen 1595
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1461
aus "Cento concerti ecclesiastici" (1602)
for: Voice (bass), basso continuo
Sheet music
Item no.: 2785
Cantus/Altus
for: 2 saxophones (AT)
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1921
Improperium
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4054
aus: Musae Sioniae, Fünffter Theil
Wolfenbüttel, 1607
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5352
eingerichtet für Sopran- und Altblockflöte
for: 2 recorders (SA)
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 2490
aus: Aliquot Cantiones, vulgo Motecta appellatae (Nürnberg, 1577)
eingerichtet für Blechbläserquartett
for: Trumpet (C/B-flat), 3 trombones
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5757
for: 5 recorders (SAATB)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1491
aus: "Anderer Theil Kleiner geistlichen Concerten", Dresden 1639
für Alt, Tenor, Bass und Basso continuo, SWV 299
for: Mixed choir (ATB), basso continuo
Score, choir scores, single parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5489
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