“Music is not man’s invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits... it can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind.” - Tomás Luis de Victoria
The Renaissance Period is considered the golden age of Spanish Music. Browse our sheet music and scores, take a look at the Villancico, the Romance or the Tiento, and explore the wide world of Spanish Renaissance Music with Stretta Music today!
The Spanish Renaissance Motets and the Spanish Renaissance Masses were the most popular forms of sacred music in Spain during the Renaissance Period. Here are a few important Spanish Renaissance composers:
The most popular secular music of the Spanish Renaissance Period included the Villancico, the Romance and the Tiento. Many of these works have survived since they were part of the most important songbooks of the period, the Cancionero de Palacio, the Cancionero de Medinaceli, the Cancionero de la Colombina and the Cancionero de Upsala. Many of these secular works have remained anonymous to this day, although a few Secular Spanish Renaissance Composers are known:
The most commonly used instruments of the Spanish Renaissance Period were the lute, the Spanish Vihuela and the organ. Here are a few Spanish Renaissance Instrumental Composers:
18 Werke
for: Mixed choir (4–12 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 766592
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 315069
for: SATB, SAB
Buch
Item no.: 563999
for: 2 GCH (SSAB SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 195966
for: 4 recorders (ATTB)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 413787
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 315068
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
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Versos del sexto tono - 1578
Zeitschrift für Spielmusik 391
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 142360
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202713
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 455677
El Niño Dios
Altspanisch – Villancico
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1014482
for: 8 BFL (SATB SATB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 367224
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 388077
for: 3 TRP ORG (KLAV)
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