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.
Early English Church Music 9
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 768936
Sacred Works 2
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 689497
Begräbnismusik in drei Teilen für Singstimmen und Basso continuo
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe Urtext
for: 8 voices (SSAATTBB), organ, bass; mixed choir (SSATTB), 6 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 1105833
Heinrich Schütz. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke 36
for: Gesang, Instrument
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 868891
Denkmaeler Der Tonkunst In Oesterreich 10~Dtoe 10
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 103406
March
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1069528
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 767200
for: Gemischter Chor
PART (20) ENGL DT
Item no.: 197057
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 778906
Sammlung internationaler Orgelmusik für Unterricht und Gottesdienst
Alle 13 Noten-Bände + Registerband im Set
for: Organ
14 music scores
Item no.: 495775
The Byrd Edition 5
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 771279
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1259672
Georg Rhau. Musikdrucke aus den Jahren 1538-1545, 7
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115788
The Byrd Edition 2
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 333541
The York Masses
Early English Church Music 52
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 769076
Five Chorales for Warm-Up and/or Performance
for: Concert band [youth concert band]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1318984
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1319417
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1319340
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1319293
for: Lute
Item no.: 330172
Ronde
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1189652
Ronde
for: Concert Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1187182
Texts from the psalms 2
New Josquin Edition 16
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Book (critical commentary)
Item no.: 769469
Italienische Madrigale mit fünf Stimmen
Leonhard Lechner. Werke 5 - Gesamtausgabe
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 115716
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 557942
15 Weltliche Madrigale
Johann Hermann Schein. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke 8
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Gesamtausgabe, Chorpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 369307
Denkmaeler Der Tonkunst In Oesterreich 28~Dtoe 28
for: Baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 103423
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 778882
The Byrd Edition 13
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 771290
The Byrd Edition 9
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 771268
The Byrd Edition 8
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 771276
Letters and Documents in Translation
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 781109
Responsorial Music
Early English Church Music 17
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 768921
Masses
Early English Church Music 18
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 768922
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Set aus 6 Partituren
Item no.: 634866
Settings of the Sanctus and Agnus Dei
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 769059
Verse Anthems
Early English Church Music 3
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 768914
Service Music
Early English Church Music 13
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 333550
Heinrich Schütz. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke 34/35
Score
Item no.: 659206
Bibliographie mehrstimmiger Lieder in deutschen Quellen 1450-1580 (Nr. 108-253). Sonderband des Internationalen Quellenlexikons der Musik (RISM)
Catalogus Musicus 10
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 363366
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 302094
Salmi II
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 665431
Gesamtausgabe
for: für 1, 2, 3, 5 oder 6 Singstimmen und Instrumente
Partitur
Item no.: 128752
for: Concert Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1015147
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1186738
Wiener Edition Alter Musik
Score
Item no.: 310557
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