From the beginning of Monteverdi to the end of J.S Bach, browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all the wonderful baroque music on offer with Stretta today!
One of the key features of this period, was the introduction of the figured bass or basso continuo. The continuous, uninterrupted bass line forms the harmonic basis for baroque music. The harmony developed from the sacred, modal style, to the major-minor system that we use today.
Expression in baroque music was shaped by the doctrine of affect. There was a rich system of figures that corresponded to a musical rhetoric, with which human emotion could be portrayed musically.
In Italy, opera emerged as a new form of expression, combining words, text, plot and staging. Other popular musical forms of the time were the concerto grosso, the suite, the fugue, the Baroque Sonata, the cantata and the oratorio. The most famous oratorios of the time were written by J.S Bach, the Christmas Oratorio, St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion.
Cantata for the 5th Sunday after Trinity
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 687546
Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi SWV 50
Stuttgarter Schütz – Ausgabe
Urtext
for: Favorit choir (SSSATTBarB), mixed choir (SATB), 4 viole da gamba, basso continuo [organ]
Viola da gamba 3 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 499017
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
Single part Viola
Item no.: 930979
Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi SWV 50
Stuttgarter Schütz – Ausgabe
Urtext
for: Favorit choir (SSSATTBarB), mixed choir (SATB), 4 viole da gamba, basso continuo [organ]
Viola da gamba 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 499015
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
Single part Viola
Item no.: 903485
Kantate zum 3. Pfingsttag
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben (durchgesehene Neuauflage)
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234032
Cantata for Whit Sunday BWV 74
after the second setting by Bach
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 762737
TWV 51:D3
for: Flute, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 499390
EOS - Eulenburg Orchestral Series
for: Viola
Single part (Harpsichord solo)
Item no.: 464125
for clarinet and orchestra
for: Klarinette und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 793575
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 646620
for: 7 Blockflöten (SSAATTB); Basso continuo und Violoncello ad libitum
Single part Bass recorder
Item no.: 746492
op. 10/4
for: Flöte (Alt-Blockflöte), Streichorchester und Basso continuo
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 747272
"Il Cardellino"
for: Flöte (Alt-Blockflöte), Streichorchester und Basso continuo
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 747277
for: 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 752192
Vorspiel der Kantate Nr. 35, 1. Teil
for: Organ, orchestra
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 781996
"Welcome to all the pleasures"
for: 5 Soli, Chor, Streicher und Basso continuo
Single part Viola
Item no.: 782182
for: Trompete in D, Streicher und Basso continuo
Single part Viola
Item no.: 784450
for: String orchestra
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 784457
op. 2/4
for: Streichorchester und Cembalo
Single part viola 2
Item no.: 784536
op. 34/6
for: 3 Melodie-Instrumente (Flöten, Violinen, Oboen) oder Streichorchester und Basso continuo; Cembalo (Klavier), Violoncello (Viola da gamba, Fagott) ad libitum
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 784585
for: 5 Blockflöten (SSAAT)
Treble recorder (single part)
Item no.: 784937
Concerto grosso D minor
for: 2 Violinen, Violoncello obigato, Streicher und Basso continuo
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 792687
Concerto A major
for: Streichorchester mit 2 obligaten Violinen
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 792714
for: String orchestra
Single part Viola
Item no.: 784106
Suite aus "Festin des Muses, 1700"
for: Streichorchester und Blasinstrumente
Single part Harpsichord
Item no.: 741197
"La tempesta di mare"
for: Flöte, Oboe, Fagott und Orchester
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 727081
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 1557945
for: Streichorchester und Cembalo
Single part viola 2
Item no.: 784809
Concerto grosso in G Major
for: Violin, strings, basso continuo
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 782244
for: 2 Violinen, Violoncello und Orgel (Klavier); Kontrabass ad libitum
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 722439
Concerto grosso D major
for: 4 violins, strings, basso continuo
Single part Cello
Item no.: 792721
Concerto grosso G major
for: Violin, strings, basso continuo
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 782245
op. 1/10
for: 2 Violinen, Viola, Violoncello, Streichorchester, Basso continuo
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 750116
L'Estro Armonico
for: Violin solo, string orchestra, basso continuo
Harpsichord (orchestral part)
Item no.: 765749
for: 3 violins, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 737643
No. 7 Bb Major
for: Violin, harpsichord, string orchestra
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 783813
Single part Viola
Item no.: 1557551
No. 7 Bb Major
for: Violin, harpsichord, string orchestra
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 783812
a quattro
for: 2 Violinen, Viola, Violone und Streichorchester
Single part Viola
Item no.: 750120
op. 4/6
for: Flute, 2 violins
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 784464
for: 3 violins, basso continuo
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 724929
op. 7/4
for: 2 oboes, bassoon, string orchestra, organ
Single part Oboe 1
Item no.: 794103
Concerto grosso D major
for: 4 violins, strings, basso continuo
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 758192
for: Orchestra
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 784706
15 Variations from the Sarabande "Aria della Folia" of Giovanni Stefani
for: String orchestra
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 784841
op. 4/5
for: 2 oboes, bassoon, string orchestra, organ
Single part Oboe 2
Item no.: 748124
op. 26/9
for: Cello, strings, harpsichord
Single part Harpsichord
Item no.: 756656