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.
Short Service
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 883227
Opere complete
Edizione critica in due volumi
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 796965
GIA Ars Antiqua
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1155577
Ayres by John Dowland
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [keyboard/guitar]
Score
Item no.: 301139
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1654422
Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi SWV 50
Stuttgarter Schütz – Ausgabe
Urtext
for: Favorit choir (SSSATTBarB), mixed choir (SATB), 4 viole da gamba, basso continuo [organ]
Score
Item no.: 425139
from the Lute Tabulature
for: Voice, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 112870
für 2 Stimmen (Chor) oder Instrumente (Violen/Blockflöten)
for: 2 voices [violins/ recorders]
Score
Item no.: 662712
for Voices and Viols in five Parts
for: 5 voices; 5 viole da gamba colla parte
Score, Parts
Item no.: 661033
– Graduated prices on request –
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1660554
from the Repertoire of the Mandel Quartet
for: Flexible ensemble
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1670710
A graded selection of 25 three-part works
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 292859
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.
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 615229
Glory to thee, my God, this night
for mixed chorus und organ (strings)
score
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 630072
Instrumental Polyphony in Late Medieval Italy
Hardcover in slipcase
Book, music score
Item no.: 777155
"Sing we and chant it" und "Now is the month of Maying"
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1676964
Werke Alter Meister 5~Die Orgel Reihe 2
for: Organ
Item no.: 1684792
for: Gemischter Chor (8) Basso continuo
Item no.: 1669756
Choralsätze für vier- und fünfstimmigen gemischten Chor und Basso conintuo ad libitum
for: Gemischter Chor, Basso continuo
Chorpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 1688544
The Italian Madrigals 1
for 4 voices or instruments (SATB)
for: 4 voices [4 melodic instruments]
Score
Item no.: 1651402
Girolamo Frescobaldi Il Primo Libro~Delle Canzoni 1
for: SBFL (VL) BC
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1669709
Monodisches Teilstück aus "Arianna" und 4 Madrigalfassungen für Chor
for: Alt solo, Gemischter Chor: SSATB, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1665075
from Three Books of Music in Tablature for the Vihuela
for: Vihuela [guitar]
Music score
Item no.: 1684867
detta "La Bernardinia" per Canto solo
for: Sopran-Blockflöte (Flöte, Oboe, Violine) und Generalbass (Gitarre)
Item no.: 1670046
for: 10 voices, orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1670719
Motette Nr. 18 aus "Geistliche Chor-Music"
for: Mixed choir; basso continuo ad lib.
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1667424
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 585245
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 124995
Consortium
for: 8 recorders (SSAATTBB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 417846
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1654955
aus: Symphoniae Sacrae I
mit singbarem deutschem Text
for: Solo S, [T], 2 Violinen, , Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1664349
Fagott & Klavier (Organ)
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 594989
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 418706
Canti - A Collection Of Renaissance Music
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 336990
from "Tutta l’Arte della Trombetta"
Edward H. Tarr Series
The Brass Press
for: 5 trumpets [brass quintet], timpani
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1670965
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score, 8 Single part
Item no.: 1664648
MCh
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1660193
Oxford Choral Classics Octavos
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 332575
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SSATTB), basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 114658
Alte Musik in mehrstimmigen Sätzen für Flöten, historische Bordun- und Blasinstrumente
Spiralbindung
for: Flexible ensemble
Ensemble score, solo parts
Item no.: 140839
Brass total
for: 5 trumpets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 419349
for: 3 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 331048
Brass Music 18
for: 4 trumpets
Item no.: 1668167
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660527
coll. Guitare No.36
for: Guitar
Score
Item no.: 1668682
Fantáziák és táncok
EMB Musica per chitarra
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1668878
Die deutsche Passion (1568)
In einer Neufassung von Ralf Kotz
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo; instruments colla parte ad lib.
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 1654517
12 vokale Kompositionen für Sopran + Alt oder Tenor + Bass
in originaler Notation mit Umschrift in moderne Notenschlüssel
Score
Item no.: 495383
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