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.
GIA Ars Antiqua
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1155577
for Fingerstyle Ukulele
for: Ukulele
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 1692210
Heinrich Schütz. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke 4
Leineneinband
for: Soli, gemischter Chor, Basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1690634
Vol. 15–20
9 CDs
Item no.: 1688045
Weihnachtliche Motette für achtstimmigen Doppelchor.
Für gemischten Chor, Blockflöten, Violen da Gamba oder andere Instrumente.
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1629067
Teil 3. Die Moderne
for: Organ
Book
Item no.: 1669278
Madrigalfassung aus dem 6. Madrigalbuch von 1614
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615922
Madrigalfassung aus dem 6. Madrigalbuch von 1614
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Basso continuo
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 1615923
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Voice, basso continuo
Score, part
Item no.: 1615925
Madrigalfassung aus dem 6. Madrigalbuch von 1614
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615924
(Venedig 1543)
for: 6 voices
Score
Item no.: 1654974
Choral Exploration
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1653682
18 Geistliche Gesänge mit einem Anhang
Nürnberg 1634/1646
for: 4 voices (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1652566
30 Geistliche Gesänge mit einem Anhang
Nürnberg 1628/1646
for: 4 voices (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1652547
31 Geistliche Gesänge mit einem Anhang
Nürnberg 1628
for: 3 voices [melodic instruments]
Score
Item no.: 1652549
27 Geistliche Gesänge
Nürnberg 1628
for: 4 voices (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1652565
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1652087
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1652083
for: Combo band
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 1651284
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1651014
Transcription by Camille Saint-Saëns
for: Piano [harp]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1646319
Aus der Sammlung "newe teutsche lieder zu drey stimmen nach art der welschen villanellen", Nürnberg (1576)
for: 3 voices [3 instruments]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1642866
Für Blockflöten (SAT), Violen da Gamba, andere Instrumente oder Vokalensemble
for: 3 voices [melodic instruments]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1642872
Hinshaw Music
for: SATB
Choir score
Item no.: 1634860
Klassik
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1635277
Pavane Choral
for: SAB
Choir score
Item no.: 1636246
Treasury Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1633219
Treasury Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1633220
With expamples by Giovanni Bassano (1591) – Francesco Rognoni (1620)
for: Bass instrument (C)
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1632375
Collegium Musicum – Kölner Reihe Alter Musik
for: 5 viole da gamba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1632346
Guitar
Book
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1615846
Geistliche Musik
for: SATB Triple Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1584594
Sancta Maria Ora Pro Nobis
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1584440
for: Voice (high), concert band
Score
Item no.: 1559576
Anthology from Vincenzo Capirola's Lute Book
(1517)
for: Lute
Music score
Item no.: 1559439
Ferrara 1594
New Gesualdo Edition 1
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1558685
Venice 1572
for: Voices, instruments
Music score
Item no.: 1558397
Liber primus
(Vulgo motecta appellatae)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 1558320
BEGINNING STRING ORCHESTRA
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1556314
dalle origini a Frescobaldi
In appendice una raccolta di 19 toccate di diversi Autori
for: Organ
Book
Item no.: 1556005
Libro Terzo (Venezia 1608)
Intabulated and Diminished for Organo
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1556017
Motetten XI (Magnum opus musicum, Teil XI)
Alte Folge Band 18
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1551758
Klassik
for: Posaunenquartett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1351901
for: Guitar Duet
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1551545
Klassik
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1551490
for: Guitar Duet
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1551544
Elisabeth Musiquen 13
for: Mixed choir (4–8 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1550418
Erstausgabe
Elisabeth Musiquen Bd. 11
for: 2 mixed choirs (SSAB, ATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1550416
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