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.
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Score
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Choir score
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for: A Capella Mixed Voices
Choir score
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Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
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for: SATB, Brass Instruments, String Instruments, Organ Accompaniment
Score
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for: Choir
Choir score
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Neuinstrumentierung (2001)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 690346
für 2 gem Chöre, Streicher und Bc, Stimmen Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem
for: Favorit choir (SSB), chapell choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1657304
Geistliches Konzert
Hoch rühmt und ehrt meine Seele Gott den Herrn
for: Favorit choir (SATB), double chapell choirs (ATB/SATB), orchestra
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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für Sopran oder Tenor oder Melodieinstrument (C,B,Es,F) solo
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Score, Parts
Item no.: 667760
Motet a 15
aus den "Symphoniae sacrae" Nr. 25
Eulenburg Octavo Edition
for: 2 mixed choirs, wind ensemble, organ
Choir score (Choir 2)
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for: GES-T 2 VL (ABFL) BC
Score
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for: 4 recorders (quartet)
Score
Item no.: 142832
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
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for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SSATTB, SATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
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for: 2 voices (SS/TT), basso continuo
Score
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
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Score
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Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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Singpartitur, Spielpartitur, Stimmensatz
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Stimme, Urtextausgabe
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for: 2 voices, basso continuo
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Christmas Motet
for: Soli (SAT/SAA) und 3 Blockflöten (SST/STT/SAT)
Score
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for: gemischter Chor (SAB) a cappella
Music score
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Part 3: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Psalm, 6 Hymn cycles, 9 Magnificat cycles, 2 Modi ludendi pleno organo
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Music score
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for: Trumpet, string orchestra
Score, Parts
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for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
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Geistliche Chormusik Nr. 12
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Music score
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(Ostern)
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Music score
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(Ostern)
for: 3-stimmiger gemischter Chor (SABar) a cappella und Orgel
Music score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
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Sheet music
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Choir score
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Score
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Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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Versos del sexto tono - 1578
Zeitschrift für Spielmusik 391
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Ensemble score
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Weihnachtssätze für Vokal- und Instrumentalensemble
for: Flexible ensemble (4 voices)
Set of parts
Item no.: 566329
M.Henry Noël his Galliard - Sir Henry Humpton's Funeral
for: Classical guitar
Music score
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Zwei Weihnachtskonzerte für zwei gemischte Vokal-Chöre oder zwei Bläserchöre (Blech- und/oder Holzbläser) oder Sänger- und Bläserchöre
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Choir score
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