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: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 2696
Am Neujahrstag
aus "Gemmulae Evangeliorum Musicae ...", Coburg 1623
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4130
aus: Cantionale sacrum
Gotha, 1646
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2948
Pavane
für Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2065
aus: Dodekatonon Musicum Triciniorum ..., Erfurt 1588
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
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Item no.: 6475
aus: Musae sioniae, 8. Teil
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3081
aus "Musae sioniae", 6. Teil
(Neujahr)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2443
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
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Item no.: 3337
aus "Musae sioniae", 9. Teil
für Männerchor (TTB)
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2111
aus "Geistliche Gesänge Augspurgischer Confession", Berlin 1641
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 3303
from: "Anthony Holborne: The Cittarn Schoole ..."
London, 1597
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 4313
Balletto a 5 voci
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2182
Psalm 127
aus "Psalmen Davids, Hiebevorn in Teutzsche Reimen gebracht durch D. Cornelium Beckern ..."
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 3008
Kanon zu zwei gleichen Stimmen
aus: Compendium musicae (Augsburg 1591)
for: Women's choir (2 voices) [male choir]
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Item no.: 3021
aus "Musae Sioniae" 6. Teil
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1705
aus "Concentus novi, trium vocum"
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 1653
aus "Musae Sioniae" (1609)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1140
aus "Neue teutsche Gesang, nach Art der welschen Madrigalien und Canzonetten"
Augsburg, 1596
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2095
Kanon zu zwei Stimmen, aus "Compendium musicae" (Augsburg, 1591)
for: Mixed choir (SB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1800
von der Siegreichen Aufferstehung unsers HERRN Jesu Christi
aus: Haußmusic Geistlicher Gesäng
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 5320
aus: "Kirchengesänge, Psalmen und geistliche Lieder auf die gemeinen Melodien mit vier Stimmen simpliciter gesetzt"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3573
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 3422
aus: "Fuenfftzig Geistliche Lieder vnd Psalmen ..."
Nürnberg 1586
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4115
aus: Dodekatonon Musicum Triciniorum ..., Erfurt 1588
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
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Item no.: 6477
Psalm 150
aus "Psalmen Davids, Hiebevorn in Teutzsche Reimen gebracht durch D. Cornelium Beckern ..."
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 3070
aus "Musae sioniae", 9. Teil
für gemischten Chor (SAM)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 2110
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1279
aus: "Ein schön geistlich Gesangbuch ..." , Jena 1609
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3845
aus Georg Forsters Sammlung "Frische teutsche Liedlein"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2847
Kanon zu vier Stimmen in der Unterquarte
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 5419
aus: Dodekatonon Musicum Triciniorum ..., Erfurt 1588
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
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Item no.: 6476
Hymnus in Dominicis et Feriis Adventus Domini
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3535
Psalm 1
aus "Psalmen Davids, Hiebevorn in Teutzsche Reimen gebracht durch D. Cornelium Beckern ..."
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 4287
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3338
(Nürnberg, 1608)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1464
aus: "Kirchengesänge, Psalmen und geistliche Lieder auf die gemeinen Melodien mit vier Stimmen simpliciter gesetzt", 1608
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3844
for: Organ (manuals) [harpsichord]
Item no.: 195353
for: Viola
Item no.: 195355
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 195354
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 386476
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 195356
aus: "Neuwe ausserlesene teutsche Gesäng"
Frankfurt am Main, 1575
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4524
aus "Hainhofers Lautenbüchern", 1603
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1151
aus "Trium vocum cantiones centum ..." (München 1541)
Ausgabe für tiefe Stimmen
for: Male choir (TBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3310
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