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: 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
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321914
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 315069
Geistliche Musik
for: SATB, SAB
Buch
Item no.: 563999
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
aus: Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper)
Transponierte Fassung (eine Quarte tiefer), Tonart d-dorisch
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 661167
Schütz-Gesamteinspielung, Band 10
Audio-CD
Item no.: 677172
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1340250
Violine & Streicher
for: Violin, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596870
Trombone Octet (2 Altos, 4 Tenors, 2 Bass)
for: 8 trombones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 973405
Treasury Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 361334
Lo, How a Rose & While Shepherds Watched
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 908953
aus: Geistliche Chormusik
Bearbeitung der Motette "Angelus ad pastores ait" von Andrea Gabrieli, mit singbarer englischer Übersetzung
for: Gemischter Chor (Favoritchor ST, 5 Instrumente, (Chor ATTB), [Kontrabass, Orgel]
Score
Item no.: 279197
Opt. Flute
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 630899
Motette
Möseler Chorreihe 87
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 661347
Der Lobgesang der Maria (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115706
aus Band 15/3 der GA
Monteverdi GA
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 166563
Ausgabe für Blechbläser
for: Wind quartet [wind ensemble 4 voices]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 189579
Schott Chormusik
for: Women's choir (SSMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 289195
Meister der Norddeutschen Orgelschule 35
Part 3: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Psalm, 6 Hymn cycles, 9 Magnificat cycles, 2 Modi ludendi pleno organo
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 630564
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 322045
aus "Der Fluyten Lust-Hof"
for: Descant recorder
Sheet music
Item no.: 1459
aus "Opella nova", 1. Teil (1627)
for: 3 voices (SAB) [mixed choir (SAB)], basso continuo
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1382
A Child Is Born
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1024927
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