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.
Motet
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 859510
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 859432
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 646420
for: Mixed choir; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 887739
for Brass Ensemble
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba
Set of parts
Item no.: 869454
Geistliche Musik
for: Bass trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1659974
eingerichtet für Blechbläserquartett
for: 2 trumpets (C/B-flat), trombone [horn (F)], bass trombone (quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 3578
Ich waiss mir ein Meidlein huebsch und fein
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1037813
Sacrae Symphoniae (1597) 9
for: 6 trumpets, 4 trombones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1678614
Venetian Ensemble Music No. 5
for: Flexible wind ensemble (6 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1657653
aus: Teutsche Lieder mit dreyen Stimmen
München, 1583
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6063
aus "Trium vocum cantiones centum ..." (München 1541)
Ausgabe für hohe Stimmen
for: Women's choir (SAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3309
Grant us peace, O Lord, in this our day
for: 4-Part Treble Choir [SSAA] a Cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 866443
für 2 Viole da gamba (Violine und Viola/Viola und Violoncello)
Music score
Item no.: 674985
Werke für Gamben oder Blockflöten
for: 5 Streicher oder 5 Blockflöten (SATTB) und Basso continuo (Laute, Noten und Tabulatur; Cembalo, Orgel)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1545052
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1017007
Sechs Tänze
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 690364
raccolte ed elaborate da A. Parisotti
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1550268
for: 6 BFL (AATTBB)
Item no.: 577715
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 330463
Canzoni a una, Canzona a 3 voci (La Rubina), für Singstimmen oder Instrumente
Instrumentalwerke aus Il Terzo Libro delle divine lodi musicali
for: 3 INST (BFL/VL/VDG/ZINK/POS)
Item no.: 581833
Teil 1 Werke für Cister solo
for: STREICH- UND ZUPFINSTRUMENTE LAUTE LAUTE SOLO
Item no.: 327963
per sonare et cantare
Frutti Musicali 10
for: Organ [harpsichord]
Music score
Item no.: 577802
for: Trompeten (2), Posaunen (2)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 303911
Das Chorwerk 3
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 304142
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 306255
Now Today Christ The Lord Is Born
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317514
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 321940
für 10 Instrumente in 2 Chören (SSATB+ATBBB)
Mehrchörigkeit um 1600
for: Mixed ensemble (10 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 622964
Venezia 1543
(67 compositions)
for: 2 melodic instruments
Ensemble score
Item no.: 311108
Adrian Willaert u.a.
Das Chorwerk 8
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 311991
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 310805
29 Motetten
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 310701
for: 2 VL (BFL) BC
Item no.: 246872
Two- and three-part motets
for: 2-3 voices [mixed choir]
Choir score
Item no.: 266336
for: 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 265567
aus "Canzoni per Sonare" 1608
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 556395
Item no.: 277647
Die sechs- und siebenstimmigen Motetten, Nr. 13-29
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Gemischter Chor, Basso continuo ad libitum
Chorpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 617770
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315057
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 315050
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315048
for: 2 Trompeten, 2 Posaunen, [Pauken]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 580548
coll. Guitare No.66
for: Guitar
Score
Item no.: 238714
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 296131
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1272070
for: 4 trombones, organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1271979
for: Alto saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1272228
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