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.
The Souls of the Righteous
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1040382
for: SSB
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1040397
for: SST and Organ
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1039929
Fantasien/ Pavanen/ Gailliarden
Consortium
for: 4 melodic instruments (SATB)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 607051
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: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 203495
Fontana Di Musica 7
for: 5 INST, [Orgel]
Item no.: 296734
Die Choralmelodie von Johann Crüger im Satz von Johann Sebastian Bach aus der Motette BWV 227
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 425650
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1017009
for: 6 brass winds
Score, Parts
Item no.: 617167
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
Psalm 51
Chorwerke in Einzelausgaben 1
for: 5 voices
Choir score
Item no.: 188540
for: Soprano Recorder and 2 Alto Recorders
Score, Parts
Item no.: 631380
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1582253
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668270
for: Blockflötenquartett (SSAT)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1653636
aus : Sacrorum Concentuum Pars Prima, Venedig 1618
for: 3 trumpets, 3 trombones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1688044
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1160951
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1039767
Edition Schultheiss
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1160911
for: 5 brass winds
Item no.: 246616
for: Recorder Quartet SATB
Score, Parts
Item no.: 143800
Confortativae sacrae symphoniae 1613/1617, 26 Motetten für SSATB oder SSATTB
for: Mixed choir (SSATB/SSATTB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 229659
Brass Music 9
for: 2 TRP HRN POS (TUBA)
Item no.: 163397
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101483
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: SATBSATB
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 909408
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1259672
for: Clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1631149
for: Cello, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1631124
for: Tenor saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1580272
Gemischter Chor, zwei Violinen, Orgel
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Music score
Item no.: 119236
for: 4 melodic instruments
Item no.: 241614
Madrigal-Fantasien zu fünf Stimmen um 1635
Consortium
for: 5 instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 418063
Heft 2
for: Mallets
Ensemble score
Item no.: 418469
Edition Lockenhaus
for: 3 guitars
Item no.: 313024
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. Sämtliche Orgel- und Clavierwerke 3,2 (Sammelband, Urtextausgabe) (Collection, Urtext)
for: Organ manuals [piano]
Performance scores
Item no.: 479545
for: Piano, Soprano Voice, Tenor Voice
Voice(s)/Accompaniment
Item no.: 1565530
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1041136
für vier Blockflöten (TBBGb/SAAT)
Flautando Edition
for: 4 recorders (quartet)
4 Performance scores
Item no.: 674125
for: 2-part Treble Voices [SA Children or Women], Keyboard [Organ or Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1037627
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Item no.: 477431
Cento Concerto Ecclesiastici op. 12/86
MCM - Masterworks of Choral Music
for: GCH (+ BC)
Organ score
Item no.: 551438
Early Dance Music 16
for: 5 instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 275234
Zeitschrift Fuer Spielmusik
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 142356
für 5 Blechbläser
Partitur und Stimmen
for: KAMMERMUSIK BLECHBLASINSTRUMENTE QUINTETTE
Score, Parts
Item no.: 268743
Early Music Library 5
for: 5 instruments
Item no.: 432244
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