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.
Magnificat, Mass and Antiphon (O bone Jesu)
Early English Church Music 43
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 769197
18 Werke
for: Mixed choir (4–12 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 766592
zum Neujahrstag – Fest der Beschneidung Christi
aus: Erster Theil Deutscher Sontäglicher Evangeliensprüche
Erfurt, 1612
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5846
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1017011
für zwei tiefe Instrumente (zwei Violoncelli / zwei Viole da gamba)
for: 2 melodic instruments
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 674331
F
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1646080
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 476402
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309593
for: Mixed choir (SATTB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 363431
For God so loved this sinful world
from: Geistliche Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SATTB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 231819
German Magnificat
Frühfassung
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 676716
Historia der freuden- und gnadenreichen Geburt Gottes und Marien Sohnes Jesu Christi
Weihnachtshistorie
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1336784
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 859516
Geistliche Musik
for: SATB, SAB
Buch
Item no.: 563999
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 315069
Vibraphone Solo
for: Vibraphone, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591282
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321914
(Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730075
Gesangbuch Joseph Klug 1543/nach dem lat. " puer natus in Bethlehem"
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 758590
In natali Domini: Psallite unigenito
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902683
Music for Brass (Robert King)
for: Blechbläserquartett
Book
Item no.: 337878
Geistliches Konzert
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: 5 GES 5 INST
Study score
Item no.: 392246
for: 4 voices (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309669
Wittenberg 1545
Georg Rhau. Musikdrucke aus den Jahren 1538-1545, 12
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 765667
Magnificat der Drucke Paris 1587 sowie München 1576 und 1587. 25 Kompositionen. Anhang
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 14
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116270
Weihnachtskonzert
for: Favorit choir (SSB), chapell choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 138732
Christmas motet
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 795688
(16. Jh.)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746871
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1677105
aus: "Newe Weihnacht Liedlein mit vier und acht Stimmen componiret"
Helmstadt, 1586
for: Mixed choir (SSAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5702
Geborn ist der Emanuel
aus "Musae Sioniae" 6. Teil
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 2328
aus "Musae Sioniae", Jena 1607
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), organ [mixed choir (SATB), brass ensemble, organ]
Score, choir score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1278
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 795698
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747965
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761143
Im Chor Heft 51
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Item no.: 291848
Chorsaetze Alter Meister
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 168635
Weihnachtssätze für Vokal- und Instrumentalensemble
for: Flexible ensemble (4 voices)
Score
Item no.: 566327
for: 8 INST (GES)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 566313
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 158549
Neuinstrumentierung (2001)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 607101
for: 2 GCH (SSAB SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 195966
for: Voice, organ
Item no.: 376172
aus: Der Schwanengesang. Des Königs und Propheten Davids 119. Psalm in 11 Stücken nebst 1 Anhang des 100. Psalms und eines deutschen Magnificats
for: 2 gemischter Chor, Basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 377429
for: 2 voices (SS), basso continuo
Item no.: 490223
Musik Fuer Oboe
for: Oboe Klavier (HA/Orgel)
Item no.: 470802
Early English Church Music 51
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 552448
Choralkonzert für gemischten Chor (SSATTB) und Bc (Kapellchor und Instrumente ad lib)
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 665322
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