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.
Hymnus in festo resurrectionis et in festo Michaelis Archangeli
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 3330
Sechs Weihnachtslieder für vier Blockflöten (AATB)
Flautando Edition
for: 4 recorders (AATB)
4 Performance scores
Item no.: 664658
für Streichquartett Spielpartitur
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Item no.: 649027
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 667906
for: Voice (high), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1819
aus: „Newe deutzsche Lieder … gantz Lieblich zu singen, vnd auff allerley Jnstrumenten zu gebrauchen“
eingerichtet für Blockflötenquartett
Mühlhausen, 1578
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5788
Mass Ordinary
General Use
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Noten
Item no.: 643799
Trwrgesang von der Noth Christi am Oelberg in dem Garten
aus "Trvtz Nachtigal Oder Geistlichs Poetisch Lvst-Waldlein"
for: Voice (low), basso continuo
Sheet music
Item no.: 3007
am zweiten Advent
aus: Gemmulae Evangeliorum Musicae ...
Coburg, 1623
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5844
aus: Etliche außerlesene kurtze gute geistliche und weltliche Liedlein
München, 1582
hohe Ausgabe (Original kl. Terz tiefer)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6032
aus: Ecclesiasticarum Cantionum Quatuor Vocum ... Liber Primus
Venedig 1639
transponierte Ausgabe (ATTB)
for: Mixed choir (ATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6089
aus: Sacrae Cantionoes quintis vocibus concinendae
Venedig, 1605
for: Mixed choir (SSATB/SAATB/SATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4577
aus: "Orpheus christianus seu symphoniarum sacrarum prodromus 5-8 v. cum basso generali"
Ravensburg 1624
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 3038
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2686
in Festo omnium sanctorum
aus: Hymni totius anni, Rom 1631
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5413
für vier Stimmen (Instrumente) und Orgel
aus Promptuarium harmonicum
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 663324
Klassik
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 643957
for: Mixed choir (12 parts) a cappella
Part St
Item no.: 632291
for: 6 BFL (SAATBB/AAATBB)
Item no.: 330462
for: 2 BFL QUARTETT (SATB SATB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 330113
Handbuch der Musik der Renaissance 3
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 637340
for: 5 voices
Score
Item no.: 630068
Canzonen und Sonaten für 1-2 Melodieinstrumente, 2 Bassinstrumente und Bc
Frutti Musicali Band 14, aus Il terzo libro dell divine lodi musicali
for: 4 melodic instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 581835
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 623189
Motette
Version für Männerchor in B-Dur
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 623185
Item no.: 618643
for: 6 brass winds
Score, Parts
Item no.: 617167
A Due Cori 128
for: 2 gemischter Chor
Partitur, Stimmen
Item no.: 616991
für Gambe und Bc (nicht ausgesetzt)
Partitur Buch Gotha 1662 Band 1
for: Viola da gamba, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 492905
für Männerchor a cappella
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 476425
Bearbeitung für Frauenchor
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 476423
for recorder orchestra
The Recorder Orchestra
for: Recorder ensemble
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 475572
Psalm 51
Chorwerke in Einzelausgaben 1
for: 5 voices
Choir score
Item no.: 188540
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Item no.: 188083
Thesaurus Musicus 43
for: 5 instruments
Item no.: 189916
Chormusik zum Genfer Psalter
Heft 1
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 471048
for voice and guitar
Francia reneszánsz dalok
énekhangra és gitárra
for: Voice, guitar
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 198571
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 195356
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 608100
Fantasien/ Pavanen/ Gailliarden
Consortium
for: 4 melodic instruments (SATB)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 607051
for: Descant recorder
Item no.: 607405
für Soli (TT), Chor (SSAATTBB) Chor und bc
Partitur (dt)
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG GEISTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 119710
for: Guitar
Item no.: 391275
for: 8 POS (AATTTTBB)
Item no.: 401573
for: Organ
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 284036
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204037
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 203495
Fontana Di Musica 7
for: 5 INST, [Orgel]
Item no.: 296734
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