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.
Einfache Duette für 2 Celli
aus der Serie: Duets for String Instruments (Set 3)
for: 2 cellos
Ensemble score
Item no.: 634580
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909577
CHOR
The Coronation Of Poppaea. An opera in a prologue and three acts. Text by G. F. Busenello, music attributed to Claudio Monteverdi and Francesco Sacrati.
20
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 302932
Passionsmusik
Urtext Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe
for: Favorit choir (SATTB), orchestra; chapell choir (SATTB) ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 154529
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 337447
Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 oboes, cor anglais, bassoon, 4 trumpets, , snare drum, timpani, organ
Score
Item no.: 321285
after Praetorius
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668808
Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1669028
for: Wind ensemble (4 parts)
Score
Item no.: 1659600
for: 4 trumpets, horn, 4 trombones, tuba
Score (C), Parts
Item no.: 1591020
for: gemischter Chor (dreistimmig); Klavier ad libitum
Choir score
Item no.: 1627881
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1669898
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1677352
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 923587
Solo Spectrum
for: Fanfare and Trumpet[s]
Score
Item no.: 884030
A Due Cori 4
for: Choir (8 voices); 8 instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1681366
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902133
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1038234
Studienpartitur
for: KAMMERMUSIK STREICH+TASTEN/BALGINSTR. QUINTETTE
Study score
Item no.: 1345057
Settings of the Gloria and Credo
Early English Church Music 55
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 769061
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 910714
Musica Britannica 62
for: 4 viole da gamba
Set of parts
Item no.: 929940
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 904824
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck – Opera Omnia (SWE)
2 music scores
Item no.: 775416
Partitur
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR A CAPPELLA GEISTLICH EINZELN
Score
Item no.: 1616840
für Streichquartett
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 648382
Book
Item no.: 1563660
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 935016
This Month of May
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1039425
GIA Ars Antiqua
for: TTBB, Baritone Solo, Bass Solo and None
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1150116
Studienpartitur
for: KAMMERMUSIK BLECHBLASINSTRUMENTE QUARTETTE
Study score
Item no.: 1344055
And When the Day of Pentecost
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1037832
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 873376
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907308
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1040131
By the smooth-flowing Tiber
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 903535
GIA Ars Antiqua
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159669
for Flute Quartet (or Flute Choir)
for: 4 Flöten (Flöten-Orchester)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1351919
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 905577
GIA Ars Antiqua
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152122
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1039356
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 909558
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1041607
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Chor (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 885105
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931195
Orial Library
for: 6 recorders (SAATTB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1009553
Sacrae Symphoniae (1597) 15
for: 2 trumpets, 10 trombones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1678615
GIA Instrumental
for: 2 Trumpets and 2 Trombones
Buch
Item no.: 1153418
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