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, Parts
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Book
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Choir score
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Music score
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Score
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Score
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for: Choir a Cappella
Score
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for: Choir a Cappella
Score
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Score
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for: SATTB
Einzelstimme
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for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
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Choir score
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Nr. 30/31 aus "Sacrae Cantiones 1565"
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) [6 solo voices]
Choir score
Item no.: 646592
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
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for: Double Choir
Choir score
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Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
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for: Voice
Choir score
Item no.: 1172835
Nr. 2/3 aus "Sacrae Cantiones 1565"
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) [6 solo voices]
Choir score
Item no.: 772801
My young life has ended
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 993570
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
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Motette aus einem Münchner Chorbuch von 1530
Edition Schultheiss
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
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for: Voice
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir part Alto
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for: Voice
Choir score
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Klassik
for: SATTB
Piano reduction
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Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
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for: Voice
Choir score
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for: Choir
Choir score
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Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Alto Voice
Einzelstimme
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for: Voice
Choir score
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for: Voice
Choir score
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for: Voice
Choir score
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for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Einzelstimme
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Klassik
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Choir score
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Geistliche Musik
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Choir score
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Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
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Musica Practica
for: ALTUS (VDG)
Stimmen-Set
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Spanish Church Music 135
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
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for: 4 guitars [guitar ensemble]
Score, Parts
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Music For Recorders
for: 6 BFL (SSATTB/SSAATB)
Score, Parts
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for: 3 trombones
Score, Parts
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German Instrumental Music 13
for: Mixed ensemble (6 voices)
Score, Parts
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Chamber Music Of The Seventeenth Century 6
for: 2 violins [descant recorders/cornetts], basso continuo
Score, Parts
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