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.
aus: "Erster Teil Kleiner geistlicher Concerte"
for: Women's choir (SS) [2 solo voices], organ
Score
Item no.: 1946
in freier Neugestaltung
for: Alt und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 741264
aus: Primo Libro di Duo cromatici … da cantare et sonare
Venedig, 1545
for: 2 violins [recorders/flutes/oboes]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 5786
aus: "Tabulatura / Darinnen Etzliche Präludia, Toccaten und Couranten uff das Clavir gesetzt"
Leipzig, 1645
for: Organ [harpsichord]
Sheet music
Item no.: 5273
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1012925
for organ
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 656726
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 299760
für (Mezzo-)Sopran und B.c. (komplett) (complete)
for: GES-M BC
Score, Parts
Item no.: 278583
Klassik
for: Voice, guitar
Score
Item no.: 394165
Barbaris, Bellony, Campion, Corbetta, Foscarini, Fuenllana, Granata, Visee i.a.
edited according to tablatures
for: Guitar
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 178160
Sonate concertate, Libro primo (1629)
for: 2 VL (BFL) FAG (VC) BC
Item no.: 282784
für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 282684
for: Trumpet, organ
Item no.: 460699
Cantio Sacra 40
for: Voice (alto), basso continuo
Item no.: 169532
Die Tabulatur 6
Ausgewählte Werke in ihrer Originalnotation mit Übertragungen für Laute und Gitarre
for: Lute [guitar]
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 217500
Die Tabulatur 12
Ausgewählte Werke in ihrer Originalnotation mit Übertragungen für Laute und Gitarre
for: Lute [guitar/piano]
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 214826
Maîtres No.49
for: Organ
Score
Item no.: 240003
Score
Item no.: 549806
à 3. Duo C. & Bassus
for: Mixed choir (SSB), basso continuo [organ]
Score
Item no.: 5308
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. Sämtliche Orgel- und Clavierwerke 1,1 (Sammelband, Urtextausgabe) (Collection, Urtext)
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 165912
aus: Psalmen Davids
Konzert
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 231745
Amsterdam 1551
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 560002
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1037340
for: 6 Blockflöte (SSAATB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 355339
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 279901
Barock und Klassik
Ausgabe enthält Text- und Notenband
for: Organ
Book and music score
Item no.: 279331
Sämtliche Lieder im Urtext – Band 1
for: Voice, guitar
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 216071
Oxford Choral Classics
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 344040
for: 5 recorders (SSATB)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 355346
aus "Der Fluyten Lust-Hof"
for: Descant recorder
Sheet music
Item no.: 1316
degli "Concerti ecclesiastici"
Milano, 1610
for: Descant recorder [violin/cornett], basso continuo
Sheet music
Item no.: 3827
Cantus/Altus
for: 2 recorders (AT)
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1917
für fünf Blockflöten (SSATB/TTBGbSb) oder/und Streicher, Bläser, Vokalensemble
Musicalische Bibliothek 27
for: 5 recorders (SAATB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 577659
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 990885
Anthology from Vincenzo Capirola's Lute Book
(1517)
for: Lute
Music score
Item no.: 1559439
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 906025
for: Trumpet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 313705
Early Music Library 227
for: 3 voices [melodic instruments]
Score
Item no.: 298051
Beliebte Melodien aus 'The Dancing Master'
Country Dances
für Gitarre
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 668723
for: 4 INST (SAAB) (CEMB)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 601551
Libro de musica de vihuela de mano 1535
Fantasien 23-33
for: Vihuela [guitar/piano]
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 478836
for: 3 bass recorders
Ensemble score
Item no.: 366240
Score
Item no.: 549869
Musica Drammatica 1 (Faksimile)
Rappresentata in Mantova l’anno 1607
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (facsimile hardcover)
Item no.: 363317
Reneszánsz zene gyermek-vonószenekarra (első fekvés)
EMB Leggierissimo
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 466349
Libro de musica de vihuela de mano 1535
Fantasien 1-13
for: Vihuela [guitar/piano]
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 1161111
Aus "Le premier livre", Paris 1552.
Tabulatur-Reproduktion mit Übertragung
for: Vihuela [guitar]
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 413825
5 Kanzonen in variablen Besetzungen für Blockflötenensemble, Renaissance- oder andere Instrumente
Frutti Musicali
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 117765
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