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.
for: Tenor solo, Sopran solo, Basso continuo
Partitur, Stimme, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 115907
Variations on Songs and Dances
Breitkopf Urtext
for: Organ [harpsichord]
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 304381
for: Keyboard instrument
Music score
Item no.: 304496
Sonata VII & Sonata VIII
for: VL (FL/OB) FAG (VA/VDG/VC) BC
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 608596
detta "La Bernardinia" per Canto solo
for: Sopran-Blockflöte (Flöte, Oboe, Violine) und Generalbass (Gitarre)
Item no.: 420923
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SSATTB, SATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 614408
Leichte Vortragsstücke für Sopran-Blockflöte und Basso continuo (Klavier)
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, basso continuo
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback) (anthology)
Item no.: 604425
Sammlung internationaler Orgelmusik für Unterricht und Gottesdienst
Alle 13 Noten-Bände + Registerband im Set
for: Organ
14 music scores
Item no.: 495775
Hymnus in adventu domini
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2800
Marienvesper
for: SSAATTTTBB, Orchester
Klavierauszug mit Continuo-Aussetzung
Item no.: 736362
Fantasias and Toccatas
for: Harpsichord
Item no.: 177669
Item no.: 291595
for: 5 INST (VL/VDG/BFL)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 464436
für Orgel (Cembalo)
SSWV 139-158
for: Organ [harpsichord]
Music score
Item no.: 227077
Clas N026-Orgue
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 239982
for: Harpsichord
Item no.: 148801
Musica Rara
for: 2 trumpets, 2 trombones (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 303277
The Italian Madrigals 3
for: 4 voices [instruments]
Score
Item no.: 329481
Musizieren in der Musikschule
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, guitar, cello; percussion ad lib.
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 112182
for: 2 Bass Instruments and Basso Continuo
Book
Item no.: 585615
for: 3 melodic instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 585244
Reicercate e Passagi 16
Improvisation and Ornamentation 1580-1630
for: 2 voices (SS), basso continuo
Music score
Item no.: 482222
Libro de musica de vihuela de mano 1535
Tientos 1-4, Fantasien 34-40
for: Vihuela [guitar/piano]
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 392984
Geistliches Konzert. Musik der Thomaskantoren zu Leipzig
aus "Opella nova" (1626)
for: Alt solo, Tenor solo, Gemischter Chor:SSATB, Instrument (Streicher oder Bläser) ad libitum, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 344970
for: Blockflötenquartett (AATB/ATTB/SATB/STTB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 470085
for: Voice (high), basso continuo
Music score
Item no.: 337928
for: Zither
Item no.: 365035
Sevilla 1546
for: Vihuela [guitar]
Music score
Item no.: 549708
Clas N066-Orgue
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 240020
Musica Rara
for: 4 trumpets, 4 trombones [2 horns, 2 trombones]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 187100
mit beiden Versionen des Magnificat
Lauda und Magnificat sind eine Quarte abwärts transponiert
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SSATTB, SATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 657107
Sonate concertate, Libro primo
for: 2 VL (BFL) FAG (VC) BC
Item no.: 282781
19 Hymn Cycles
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 759764
Musica per la tastiera 3
Tastenmusik aus dem 16. und 17. Jahrhundert
for: Organ manuals [harpsichord/piano]
Music score
Item no.: 255852
Siglos XVI al XVIII
for: Piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 324535
Gedanken zu Monteverdi, Bach und Mozart
Book
Item no.: 118733
32 Pieces
Schott Anthology Series
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD (anthology)
Item no.: 636019
Pavanen, Galliarden und Couranten- 23 Tänze in variablen Besetzungen für Blockflötenensemble, Renaissance- oder andere Blas- und Streichinstrumente
Frutti Musicali
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 117769
bearbeitet für Streichorchester
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 419435
Marienvesper SV 206
Urtext
for: 7 soloists (SSATTBB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 627381
Favola in musica in one prologue and five acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489943
First complete edition with full commentary
for: Descant recorder
Music score
Item no.: 200594
Bicinium für zwei gleiche Stimmen
aus "Musae Sioniae", 9. Teil (Wolfenbüttel 1610)
for: 2 voices (medium) [choir (2 parts)]
Score
Item no.: 1725
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 760723
eingerichtet für Blockflötenquartett
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1813
from "Lachrimae, or seaven teares figured in seaven passionate pavans ..."
arranged for brass quintet
for: 2 trumpets (C/B-flat), horn (F), 2 trombones (quintet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 3136
eingerichtet für Blockflötenquartett
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 3540
aus: Psalmen und christliche Gesänge mit vier Stimmen auf die Melodie fugweis komponiert
eingerichtet für Blockflötenquartett
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 3388
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