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.
Songs 1-25
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 182729
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 680929
Gesamtausgabe 26 Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 655070
Musica Britannica 6
for: Mixed choir (SATB); lute ad lib.
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 376330
With ornamentation instructions and choreographies
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet) [string orchestra]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 487623
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915805
aus: Psalmen Davids, dorisch (1619)
Konzert für Favoritchor und Bc (Capellchor ad lib.)
for: Mixed choir (favourite choir SATB), basso continuo; 2 mixed choirs (chapel choirs SATB, SATB), 8 melodic instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 231744
Die zwischen 1553 und 1638 mehrmals bearbeiteten Sätze
Practica Musicale 1
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 200329
aus: Kleine geistliche Konzerte II
for: Mixed choir (SSB) [male chorus (TTB)], basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 423224
Reneszánsz muzsika két gitárra
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score (anthology)
Item no.: 478430
The English Madrigalists 32
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 769237
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSATB), organ [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 840961
aus: Geistliche Kirchenmelodien, 1649
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins [treble recorders], basso continuo
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 4232
aus: "Psalmes, Songs, and Sonettes: some solemne, others joyfull, framed to the life of the Words: Fit for Voyces of Viols of 3. 4. 5. and 6. Parts"
arranged for recorder quartet
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 3107
Part 2: 3 Chorale Settings, 3 Lied Settings, 2 Fugues, Echo, Fantasia, Hymn, Toccata
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 756109
and four other quintets
for: 5 recorders (SAATB)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 741482
aus "Il secondo libro di toccate d’intavolatura di cembalo e organo"
for: Organ [harpsichord]
Sheet music
Item no.: 2900
"Collection pour grand orgue"
D'apres la = Declaracion de Instrumentos Musicales 1555
for: Organ
Music score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 639199
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1037921
Miserere, Benedictus, Dies irae
Série IV: Motets, Volume 3
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 668206
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 186332
for: 2 lutes
Ensemble score (Sheet music, TABs)
Item no.: 293751
Roma 1553
for: Viola da gamba, harpsichord
Score, Parts
Item no.: 231443
Clas N069-Orgue
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 240023
for: 4 recorders (ATTB)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 245694
Dances, Polish Songs, Untitled, and Unidentified Works
Volume 5
Corpus Of Early Keyboard Music 6
Bound copy temporarily out of stock!
for: Organ manuals [harpsichord/piano]
Music score
Item no.: 625996
Collegium Musicum - Kölner Reihe Alter Musik
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 620622
de música de cifra para tañer vihuela
Transcrita para guitarra
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 324329
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 299756
for: Piano [harpsichord/organ]
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 367708
Musica Britannica 55
for: Piano [harpsichord/organ]
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 365753
for: SATB
Choir score
Item no.: 174434
Kurtzweilig Quotlibet aus "Libro delle Pavane..."
for: String orchestra, basso continuo
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 419059
for: Mixed choir (SAATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 284037
Libro de musica de vihuela de mano 1535
Fantasien 14-22
for: Vihuela [guitar/piano]
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 392983
Combattimento
Combattimento
Score
Item no.: 549813
for: 2 violins, cello
Music score
Item no.: 1548763
for: Voice, guitar
Music score (reprint)
Item no.: 780533
for: Alt solo, Basso continuo
Singpartitur, Stimme, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 178513
Easy chamber musi from the 16th, 17th and 8th century
for: 3 recorders (SAT)
Ensemble score (anthology)
Item no.: 418917
Just Brass 5
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score (C), Parts
Item no.: 279934
for: Harpsichord [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1154
aus "Jane Pickering's Lute Book" (1616)
for: 2 guitars
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1433
for: Organ [harpsichord]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3270
One Smiling Summer Morning
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907747
aus: Il Quarto Libro de Varie Sonate Sinfonie Gagliarde Brandi e Corrente
Venedig 1642
for: 2 violins [recorders/cornets], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 6086
Suiten Nr. 7 (c-moll/C-dur) und 8 (d-moll) (komplett) (complete)
for: Descant (soprano) recorder [tenor recorder], basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 210187
Early Recorder Music by G.P. Cima & G. Frescobaldi for Descant (Soprano) Recorder and basso continuo
DOWANI 3 Tempi Play Along
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, basso continuo
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 491047
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