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.
German Magnificat
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 232150
Intavorlierung einer Motette aus: Orlando di Lasso, Sacrae Cantiones, Liber primus
in: Ein new kunstlich Taburlaturbuch
Nürnberg, 1575
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 6016
Am Neujahrstag
aus "Gemmulae Evangeliorum Musicae ...", Coburg 1623
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4130
Complementum, unnd dritter Theil
aus: "Fest- und Aposteltägiger Gedencksprüche", Erfurt 1621
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4446
in Adventu Domini Nostri Jesu Christi
aus: Musici Operis
Prag, 1586
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4386
Imitatorische Motette (14. Jh.)
for: gleiche Stimmen (SMezA)
Choir score
Item no.: 746802
de Nativitate Circumsione et Epifania Domini
aus: Musici Operis
Prag, 1586
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6084
Christmas concerto
for: Soli, gemischter Chor, Streicher und Basso continuo
Streicherstimmensatz Violine I,II, Viola, Violoncello, Basso continuo (Violoncello)
Item no.: 723397
for: 8 INST (GES)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 569728
Weihnachtssätze für Vokal- und Instrumentalensemble
for: Flexible ensemble (4 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 569776
eingerichtet für zwei Posaunen oder Fagotte
for: 2 trombones [bassoons]
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 2501
D
for: Cello
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1553468
for: Combo band
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 1651284
D
for: Viola
Instrumental Duet
Item no.: 1554994
Entstehungszeit evtl. um 1610
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668623
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 279038
Nun ist es Zeit, zu singen hell
Vier Weihnachtsmotetten
for: Women's choir (SMezA/SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204702
Schott's Chorblätter
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280447
Bass Posaune & Streicher
for: Bass trombone, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591252
for: 5 voices [5 instruments]
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 569506
from: Sacro Sanctae Dei Laudes
Venice 1600
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6305
Set of parts
Item no.: 291301
8 Magnificat-Kompositionen
Leonhard Lechner. Werke 4
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115715
4 Posaunen
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 596071
for: zweistimmiger Chor und Klavier, Alt Blockflöte ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 1566372
Weihnachtsmotette
for: 3 gleiche oder gemischte Stimmen (SAA oder SAT)
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 202716
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 494595
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 884447
Ave Maria SSA + Klavier
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score, Piano score, Organ score
Item no.: 493055
Motet a 15
aus den "Symphoniae sacrae" Nr. 25
Eulenburg Octavo Edition
for: 2 mixed choirs, wind ensemble, organ
Choir score (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1355115
for: Chor SSAT/ATTB/ATB, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 274647
nach dem lateinischen "Dies est laetita" (15. Jh.)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 731842
nach Ps. 96 (Lieder nach Texten des AT (Psalmen u.a.))
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730064
Weihnachtsoratorium
for: Flöten (2), Fagotte (2), Trompeten (2), Posaunen (2), Violinen (2), Violen (2), Posaune, Violetta, 1. Viola, Violetta, 2. Viola, Cello, Gambe, Kontrabass, Cello, Kontrabass, Basso continuo
Stimmensatz, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 186714
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1381716
(John 3, 16)
for: gemischter Chor (SSATTB, 1. Tenor kann vom Alt übernommen werden)
Choir score
Item no.: 751577
Singt und klingt
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746933
for: 2 GCH (SSAB SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1655592
aus "Musae sioniae", 6. Teil
(Neujahr)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2443
for: Melodie-Instrument, Orgel
Score, solo part
Item no.: 469440
Now Arise Ye She Pherds Mild
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317553
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 422761
Magnificat Moralis Ispani
Venedig, 1545
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5849
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125306
Liedkantate, 6 Sätze für verschiedene Besetzungen
aus "Musae Sioniae"
for: Singstimme, Instrument
Singpartitur, Spielpartitur
Item no.: 196027
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Performance score for winds
Item no.: 116872
for: 2 GCH (SATB SATB) BC
Choir score
Item no.: 115277
Weihnachtskonzert
for: Favorit choir (SSB), chapell choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 193897
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