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: 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
for: SSA [Women or Children], opt. Piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1095027
für Cembalo (3 Blockflöten/3 Gamben) und Basso continuo (Faksimile)
for: 3 violas
Score, CD
Item no.: 553595
Anthologie des Maîtres Classiques de l'Orgue
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 240024
Maîtres classiques 47
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 240001
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 290879
Zeitschrift für Spielmusik
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 182134
Estratte da "Concerti ecclesiastici a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 8 voci"
for: 2–4 melodic instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 484919
für Orgel oder andere Tasteninstrumente
for: Organ [harmonium/piano]
Music score
Item no.: 299344
Consort Music
for: 4 viole da gamba
Score, 4 Single part
Item no.: 661036
for: 5 recorders (SAATB)
5 playing scores
Item no.: 624660
Aus: My Lady Nevell's Book und The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
for: 2 guitars
Score, Parts
Item no.: 214440
A selection for Alto Recorder
for: Treble recorder
Music score
Item no.: 278839
für zwei Blockflöten (SA)
for: 2 recorders (SA)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 675103
for: 2 lutes
Ensemble score
Item no.: 929903
Heft I: Sonata Prima - Sonata Seconda
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 413626
und drei andere Quartette
Edition Schott
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 355306
Recorders Library
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, harpsichord
Score, Parts
Item no.: 762421
Edition Schott
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 355758
Mit der Querflöte durch tausend Jahre Musik
for: 1–4 flutes
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 691603
A Motet in 40 Parts
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 337785
Arie, canzonette e recitativi
for: Voice, harpsichord [piano]
Songbook
Item no.: 258415
für vier Blockflöten (SATB)
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 662474
New Josquin Edition 11
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 769408
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Music score
Item no.: 366327
for: Cello, guitar
Score, part
Item no.: 198009
Die Tabulatur, Heft 5
Ausgewählte Werke in ihrer Originalnotation mit Übertragungen für Laute und Gitarre
for: Guitar [lute]
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 138250
30 pieces for harpsichord, virginal or clavichord
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Music score
Item no.: 429783
Blockflötenensemble, auch andere Blas- oder Streichinstrumente möglich, Bc ad lib.
for: Sopran-Blockflöten (2), Alt-Blockflöte, Tenor-Blockflöte, Bass-Blockflöte, Basso continuo ad libitum
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 117162
4 Blockflöten (SATB/SAAT/SAAB/SSAB/SSTB/AATB/STTB)
Renaissance Dances
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 1209668
Just Brass 26
for: 4 trumpets, horn, 4 trombones, tuba
Score (C), Parts
Item no.: 279950
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1379434
for: Klavier (Orgel, Cembalo)
Item no.: 352433
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 257737
Lyre Series
for: Choir
Buch + CD
Item no.: 638732
aus "Der Fluyten Lust-Hof"
for: Descant recorder
Sheet music
Item no.: 2923
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Study score
Item no.: 749269
for soprano instrument (voice) and bc
Improvisation and Ornamentation 1580-1630 vol.13
for: Descant recorder [violin/cornett], basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 409098
masque (from The Lords' Masque, 1613)
für bis zu 6 Blockflöten (drei- bis sechsstimmig, SSAATB in variabler Besetzung)
Stimmen zum Ausdrucken
for: Recorder ensemble
Score, CD (with parts to print yourself)
Item no.: 682186
Spanyol Reneszánsz Dalok
for: Voice, guitar [lute]
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 187572
Diminutionen über ein Madrigal von G. P. da Palestrina
Das Blockflötenrepertoire
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, harpsichord
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 159177
Ricercari
for: Organ (manuals) [harpsichord]
Item no.: 149329
Musicum Band 1 für 2
Blockflöten, Spielpartitur
for: HOLZBLASINSTRUMENTE BLOCKFLÖTE OHNE TASTENINSTRUMENT AA
Item no.: 181735
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 678504
with an accompanying part for bass viol
for: 1–2 viole da gamba
Music score
Item no.: 767946
für 4 Blockflöten (SATB) oder andere Melodieinstrumente
Stimmen als Kopiervorlage
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 413607
Fantasias and Selected Works
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Organ manuals [harpsichord/piano]
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 686617
for: Descant (soprano) recorder [violin], basso continuo
Score, solo part
Item no.: 176256
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