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.
for: Trumpet, organ
Item no.: 460699
Cantio Sacra 40
for: Voice (alto), basso continuo
Item no.: 169532
Maîtres No.49
for: Organ
Score
Item no.: 240003
aus: Psalmen Davids
Konzert
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 231745
Amsterdam 1551
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 560002
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 279901
Oxford Choral Classics
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 344040
Sämtliche Lieder im Urtext – Band 1
for: Voice, guitar
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 216071
Die Tabulatur 6
Ausgewählte Werke in ihrer Originalnotation mit Übertragungen für Laute und Gitarre
for: Lute [guitar]
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 217500
Die Tabulatur 12
Ausgewählte Werke in ihrer Originalnotation mit Übertragungen für Laute und Gitarre
for: Lute [guitar/piano]
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 214826
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1037340
Score
Item no.: 549806
for: 5 recorders (SSATB)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 355346
for: 6 Blockflöte (SSAATB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 355339
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 299760
Barbaris, Bellony, Campion, Corbetta, Foscarini, Fuenllana, Granata, Visee i.a.
edited according to tablatures
for: Guitar
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 178160
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. Sämtliche Orgel- und Clavierwerke 1,1 (Sammelband, Urtextausgabe) (Collection, Urtext)
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 165912
Sonate concertate, Libro primo (1629)
for: 2 VL (BFL) FAG (VC) BC
Item no.: 282784
für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 282684
Barock und Klassik
Ausgabe enthält Text- und Notenband
for: Organ
Book and music score
Item no.: 279331
Ancient to Baroque
Seventh Edition
Book
Item no.: 697594
The English Madrigalists 19
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 771902
The English Madrigalists 39
for: Mixed choir (4–6 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 771734
Early English Church Music 27
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 768940
From The Becker Psalter
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1149463
The English Madrigalists 17
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 771735
Early English Church Music 5
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 768934
Musica Britannica 4
for: 2–4 voices
Music score (hardcover, anthology)
Item no.: 769248
The English Madrigalists 33
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 119199
English Sacred Music
Early English Church Music 19
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 769214
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 696236
for: Mixed choir (SSAATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 930813
With Lute Tablature
English Lute Songs
for: Voice, lute
Music score
Item no.: 299837
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 366287
1595/1593
The English Madrigalists 1
for: 2–3 voices
Choir score
Item no.: 361323
Musica Britannica 25
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 333545
The English Madrigalists 18
for: Mixed choir (3–6 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 333551
The English Madrigalists 3
for: Mixed choir (5–6 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 333549
With Lute Tablature
The English Lute Songs 7 and 15
for: Voice, guitar [lute]
Music score
Item no.: 583487
für Soli und Chor (STB), 2 Violinen und Basso continuo
aus: Selva morale et spirituale - SV 266
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 667006
Matthäus 2, 18
Geistliche Chormusik 1648, op. 11/28
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB); 7 instruments colla parte, basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 278999
Deutsches Nunc dimittis
SWV 432 – 1657
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) [6 voices]; basso continuo ad lib.
Music score (without cover)
Item no.: 232024
aus: Psalmen Davids
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1160921
SWV 377 (op. 11 Nr. 9); aus: Geistliche Chormusik
mit singbarer englischer Übersetzung
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423235
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 120473
The Violin at the English Court, 1540-1690
Oxford Monographs on Music
for: Violin
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 246674
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 920375
Eine kommentierte Quellensammlung
Pratica Musicale 8
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 475526
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