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.
A saxophone feature based on the Passion Chorale
for: Concert Band/Harmonie and 2 Saxophones
Score
Item no.: 975336
With expamples by Giovanni Bassano (1591) – Francesco Rognoni (1620)
for: Bass instrument (C)
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1632375
Reprint of the Oxford University Press, 1946 edition
Book
Item no.: 134867
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 905389
Choral Treasury Series
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 797906
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 891334
for: Voice, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 482807
Régi mesterek vegyeskarai 25
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822621
O beata et gloriosa Trinitas
Church Music Society
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 893702
Táncmuzsika öt énekhangra
for: 5 voices [mixed choir] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 625597
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 888537
Complete Lute Songs I
for: Voice, guitar
Score
Item no.: 213823
Brass Music 18
for: 4 trumpets
Item no.: 1668167
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660527
coll. Guitare No.36
for: Guitar
Score
Item no.: 1668682
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1008805
aus den "Sacrae Symphoniae" (Venedig 1597)
für zwei Blechbläser Instrumentalchöre
Die Musizierstunde-Ensemble Time MZ 84
for: Flexible brass ensemble (8 parts)
Score (C), Parts
Item no.: 1681564
Fantáziák és táncok
EMB Musica per chitarra
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1668878
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1038776
Music for String Orchestra
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1534148
Chansons à cinq parties
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck – Opera Omnia (SWE)
Item no.: 775415
Two Masses: ‘Tecum principium’ and ‘O quam glorifica’
Early English Church Music 45
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 769199
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1038127
for: Brass Ensemble and Percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1530982
for: Concert band
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1039293
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 935109
Hinshaw Concert
for: SA or TB, a Cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1057222
GIA Choral Series
for: SATB, solos and Piano
Score
Item no.: 1156997
for: Concert band
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1038721
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1039627
for: Voice, guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1015602
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1039131
This glad day He appeared
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1039087
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1038360
O Cross Most Blessed
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1158177
En natus est Emanuel
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1037398
Brass quartet - 2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones, Timpani
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1158254
Together We Sing Series
for: 3-Part Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1656028
Die deutsche Passion (1568)
In einer Neufassung von Ralf Kotz
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo; instruments colla parte ad lib.
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 1654517
für drei Blasinstrumente
for: 3 wind instruments (trio)
Score
Item no.: 662473
for: SSA and SSAA a Cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1041455
Musica Britannica 61
for: 2 mixed choirs, organ
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 929921
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1038110
for: Mixed Choir [SATB] A Cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1329332
12 vokale Kompositionen für Sopran + Alt oder Tenor + Bass
in originaler Notation mit Umschrift in moderne Notenschlüssel
Score
Item no.: 495383
Great Is the Lord God
for: TB/Two-Part Treble Voices [SA or TB] and Organ
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1040269
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1077799
Neun Intonationen, Liedsätze und Nachspiele für Streichquartett
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 682627
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