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[ Medieval Music  |  Renaisance Music  |  Baroque Music  |  Classical Era Music  |  Romantic Era Music ]
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Medieval Music

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• Musical examples and list of early sources for Organum: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 [PostScript files]
• Musical examples for the Ars nova: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 [PostScript files]
• "Crucifigat omnes Domini", Codex Huelgas, fol. 97-97v [Sibelius Scorch file] [Sibelius file; PDF file]
• Johannes Ciconia, Virelai, "Sus un' fontayne": pp. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 [PostScript files]

Renaissance Music

• "L'homme armé" [melody used as cantus firmus in many Renaissance compositions] [GIF file; PDF file]
• John Bull, The King's Hunt (The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, no.135) [PDF file]
• Musical example for Busnoys: 1, 2, 3 [PostScript files]
• William Byrd, Mass for five voices: Agnus Dei [PDF file]
• William Byrd, Sellingers Rownde (My Ladye Nevells Booke, no. 37)
• William Byrd, The Carmans Whistle (My Ladye Nevells Booke, no. 34)
• Musical examples for Dufay: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 [PostScript files]

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• Claude Gervaise, Les huict bransles de pictou (Cinquiesme livre de danceries, 1550, fol. 6v-11)
• Claude Gervaise, Pavanne d'Angleterre, avec sa gaillarde (Sixieme livre de danceries, 1555, fol. 3v-4)
• Heinrich Isaac, La Morra (Harmonice musices Odhecaton. A. Venezia: O. Petrucci, 1504, pp. 49-50.) [Transcribed and edited by Scott A. MacDonald, in Sibelius format): Sibelius file (FTP; to download file right click and "Save As..."); GIF files: pp. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
• Heinrich Isaac, Donna di dentro di tua casa [Canto Carnascialesco]
• Clement Janequin, "Martin menait son porceau au marché"

Baroque Scores
Classical Scores

• Josquin Desprez or Pierre de la Rue, Motet: "Absalon, fili mi"
• Josquin Desprez, Motet: "Ave Maria, gratia plena"
• Musical example for Landini: 1, 2, 3 [PostScript files]
• Robert Morton, L'homme armé (Cinquiesme livre de danceries, 1550, fol. 6v-11)

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• Jean Ockeghem, Missa mi-mi: Agnus Dei [Postscript files: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Lauda Sion: Kyrie, Agnus Dei
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Motet: "Lauda Sion"
• Plainsong, Lauda Sion [Sequence]
• Musical example for Power: 1, 2, 3, 4 [PostScript files]
• Plainsong, Veni creator spiritus [Sarum version] [GIF file.]
• Cypriano de Rore, "Da le belle contrade d'oriente", Il quinto libro de madrigali (1566)
• Claudin de Sermisy, "Joyssance vous donneray"
• Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Poi che volse la mia stella [Frottola] (Frottole Libro tertio. Venetiis: Ott. Petrucci, 1504, no. 19.) [GIF files: pp. 1, 2, 3]
• Philippe Verdelot, Madrigal: "Madonna'l tuo bel viso"
• Musical example for Victoria (Motet & Parody Mass): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 [PostScript files]

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• Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata, BWV 78, "Jesu, der du meine Seele", 2. Aria: Duetto [PDF file]
•  Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata, BWV 134, "Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß", 1. Recitativ: Duetto [PDF file]; 2. Aria [PDF file]; 3. Recitativ: Duetto [PDF file]; 4. Aria: Duetto [PDF file]; 5. Recitativ: Duetto [PDF file]; 6. Chorus [PDF file]  
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata, BWV 202, "Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten" [Wedding Cantata] [PDF file]
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Missa, Symbolum Nicenum, Sanctus, Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, et Dona nobis pacem [Mass in B minor] BWV 232 [Selections]
• Kyrie 2
• Confiteor unum baptisma
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Invention 1 in C major, BWV 772 [transcribed from autograph] [GIF files: page 1, 2; PDF file]
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Invention 4 in D minor, BWV 775 [transcribed from autograph] [GIF files: page 1, 2; PDF file]
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Invention 5 in Eb major, BWV 776 [transcribed from autograph] [GIF files: page 1, 2]
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Invention 12 in A major, BWV 783 [transcribed from autograph] [GIF files: page 1, 2]
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Invention 13 in A minor, BWV 784 [transcribed from autograph] [GIF files: page 1, 2]
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Sinfonia 8 in F major, BWV 795 [transcribed from autograph] [GIF files: page 1, 2]
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Sinfonia 12 in A major, BWV 799 [transcribed from autograph] [GIF files: page 1, 2, 3]
• Johann Sebastian Bach, English Suite 2 in A minor, BWV 807: Prelude [PDF file], Bourée I & Bourée II [PDF file; GIF files: page 1, 2, 3, 4]
• Johann Sebastian Bach, English Suite 3 in G minor, BWV 808: Prelude [GIF files: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], Gigue [GIF files: page 1, 2, 3, 4]

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• Johann Sebastian Bach, English Suite 4 in C major, BWV 809: Prelude
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Fugue in G minor, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 no. 16, BWV 861
• Johann Sebastian Bach, "Italian Concerto", BWV 971, First Movement [PDF file], Second Movement [PDF file], Third Movement [PDF file]
•  Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata for two flutes and basso continuo, BWV 1039 [FTP site for Sibelius files, including parts (download BWV1039.sib {score}, 1039bc.sib {cembalo/basso continuo}, 1039-1.sib {flute 1}, and 1039-2.sib {flute 2}; PDF files: score, cembalo/basso continuo, flute 1, flute 2].  
•  Johann Sebastian Bach, Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043, First movement, Allegro [PDF file]; Second movement, Largo ma non tropo [PDF file]; Third movement, Allegro [PDF file]  
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Concerto for Three Harpsichords, BWV 1064, First movement, Allegro [PDF file]; Second movement, Adagio [PDF file]; Third movement, Allegro [PDF file]
•  Johann Sebastian Bach, Ouverture [Orchestra Suite] I in C Major, BWV 1066, 1. Ouverture [PDF file]; 2. Courante [PDF file]; 3. Gavotte I & II [PDF file]; 4. Forlane [PDF file]; 5. Menuet I & II [PDF file]; 6. Bourrée I & II [PDF file]; 7. Passepied I & II [PDF file]  
•  Johann Sebastian Bach, Ouverture [Orchestra Suite] III in D Major, BWV 1068, 1. Ouverture [PDF file]; 2. Air [PDF file]; 3. Gavotte I & II [PDF file]; 4. Bourrée [PDF file]; 5. Gigue [PDF file]  
•  Johann Sebastian Bach, Ouverture [Orchestra Suite] IV in D Major, BWV 1069, 1. Ouverture [PDF file]; 2. Bourrée I & II [PDF file]; 3. Gavotte [PDF file]; 4. Menuet I & II [PDF file]; 5. Réjouissance [PDF file]  
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Organ Chorale, O Herre Gott, dein göttlich Wort, BWV 1110, from Music Library, Yale University MS LM 4708, pp. 110-111.
• Emilio de Cavalieri, "O che nuovo miracolo" (Ballo from Intermedio VI for La Pellegrina, 1589): [PostScript files, pp. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13].
• Francesco Cavalli, Canzon à 8, Musiche Sacre Concernenti (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti, 1656)

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• Francesco Cavalli, Messa Concertata: Agnus Dei, Musiche Sacre Concernenti (1656)
• [A full score of the complete Mass is available, along with separate parts for the instruments. Contact the editor of this site for more information.]
• Francesco Cavalli, "Nisi Dominus" (Psalm 126), Musiche Sacre Concernenti (1656) [PDF file]
• Archangelo Corelli, Sonata da camera, Op. II no. 2 (1685) [GIF files: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] [PDF file]
• Archangelo Corelli, Sonata da chiesa, Op. III no. 8 (1689) [GIF files: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] [PDF file]
• Giovanni Gabrieli, Sonata con tre violini (Canzoni e sonate, 1615): pp. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 [PostScript files]
• George Frideric Händel, "Caro figlio!", La Resurrezione, Pt. II [GIF files: page 1, 2, 3, 4] [PDF file]
• George Frideric Händel, Sinfonia, from Acis and Galatea [PDF file]
• George Frideric Händel, Overture, from Admeto
• George Frideric Händel, Concerto for Judas Maccabaeus (1747), HWV 334 [Concerto a due cori, no. 3] [PDF file]
• George Frideric Händel, Concerto for Alexander Balus (1748), HWV 333 [Concerto a due cori, no. 2] [PDF file]
• George Frideric Händel, from Giulio Cesare:
• Overture [PDF file]
• Atto III sc. 9, (aria) "Da tempeste il legno infranto" [PDF file]
• George Frideric Händel, Trio Sonata, Op. V no. 5 (Seven Sonatas or Trios for two Violins or German Flutes with a Thorough Bass for the Harpsichord or Violoncello...Opera Quinta. London: Printed for & sold by I. Walsh, n.d. [1739].) [PDF file of complete Sonata] [Air (only) GIF files: page (of the sonata) 17, 18]
• George Frideric Händel, Trio Sonata, Op. V no. 6 (Seven Sonatas...Opera Quinta... .) [PDF file of complete Sonata]
• Claudio Monteverdi, Confitebor a due voci con due violini (Messa a quattro voci, et salmi..., 1651): [PostScript files, pp. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15].
• Claudio Monteverdi, "Cruda Amarilli", Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci (1605), no. 1
• Claudio Monteverdi, "Exulta, filia Sion", A voce sola (Lorenzo Calvi, Quarta raccolta de sacri canti...1629, no. 1)
• Psalm Tone for Mode 8, as used in Monteverdi, Laudate pueri (Vespers, 1610) [PostScript file]
• Claudio Monteverdi, L’incoronazione di Poppea, final duet [GIF files: pp. 1, 2, 3, 4]

Renaissance Scores
Baroque Scores
Classical Scores

• Henry Purcell, An Evening Hymn ("Now, now that the sun hath veil'd his light") (Harmonia Sacra, 1688, pp. 1-3) [PDF file]
• Henry Purcell, "Let the dreadful engines" from Don Quixote, Part I (1694), Act IV, Scene 1 (Orpheus Britannicus, I 243-248) [PDF file]
• Henry Purcell, "O Sing unto the Lord" The Gostling Manuscript, pp. 124-137 [PDF file]
• Henry Purcell, Ten Sonatas in Four Parts (1697), no. 9 [PDF file]
• Henry Purcell, "They that go down to the sea in ships" from The Gostling Manuscript, pp. 77-84 [PDF file]
• Henry Purcell, "Wond'rous machine" (Orpheus Britannicus II 115-120) [PDF file]
• Henry Purcell, music from The Indian Queen (1695):
• Symphony, Act II, Scene 2 (British Library Add. MS 31453, & Add. MS 31449) [PDF file]
• "You twice ten hundred deities" / "By the croaking of the toad", Act III, Scene 2 (Orpheus Britannicus, I 25-28) [GIF files: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] [PDF file]
• The God of Dreams, Act III, Scene 2 (Orpheus Britannicus, I 28-32) [GIF files: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] [PDF file]

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• Heinrich Schütz, "Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr", Anderer Theil kleiner geistlichen Concerten (Dresden, 1639), no. 22
• Heinrich Schütz, "Ich beuge meine Knie", Anderer Theil kleiner geistlichen Concerten (Dresden, 1639), no. 14
• Heinrich Schütz, "Ich werde nich sterben, sondern leben", Erster Theil, Symphoniarum sacrarum, secunda pars (Dresden, 1647), no. 6
• Heinrich Schütz, "Ich danke dir, Herr", Anderer Theil, Symphoniarum sacrarum, secunda pars (Dresden, 1647), no. 7
• Heinrich Schütz, "Von Aufgang der Sonnen", Symphoniarum sacrarum, secunda pars (Dresden, 1647), no. 22
• Georg Philipp Telemann, Quadri a violino, flauto traversière, viola da gamba e fondamento (Hamburg, 1730), Sonata in A major, first movement [PDF file]
• Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 no. 8, first movement [PDF file]
• Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for Violin, Strings, and Continuo, Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, Op. 8 no. 9 [PDF file]

Classical Era Music

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• Joseph Haydn, String Quartet, Op. 20 no. 2, first movement [PDF file]
• Joseph Haydn, String Quartet, Op. 71, no. 1 [PDF file]; [GIF files: first movement: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; Menuetto & Trio: pp. 1, 2, 3]
• Joseph Haydn, Symphony 104, D Major: III Menuetto, Allegro [PDF file] [GIF files of Menuetto & Trio: pp. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
• Joseph Haydn, Agnus Dei from Missa in tempore belli, Hob. XXII: 9 [PDF file]
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata, K. 282 [PDF file] [GIF files of Menuetto I & II: pp. 1, 2]
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata, K. 310, first movement [PDF file] [GIF files: pp. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata, K. 311 [PDF file]
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata, K. 333, third movement [PDF file] [GIF files: pp. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488, First Movement [PDF file] [GIF files: pp. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30]
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto in C Minor, K. 491, First Movement [PDF file]
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Ouvertura [PDF file]
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni, K. 527, Ouvertura [PDF file]
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 41, K.551 (“Jupiter,” 1788), fourth movement, Allegro molto [PDF file]
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 8, Op. 13: III, Allegro [GIF files: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 14, Op. 27 no. 2: III, Presto agitato [GIF files: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 17, Op. 31 no. 2: II, Adagio [GIF files: pp. 1, 2, 3, 4]

Renaissance Scores
Baroque Scores

• Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 18, Op. 31 no. 3: III, Menuetto, Moderato e grazioso [GIF files: 1, 2, 3]
• Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet, Op. 18, no. 1 [PDF file] [GIF files: first movement (pp. 1-15): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; Scherzo (& Trio) (pp. 26-31): 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31]

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Romantic Era Music

• Johannes Brahms, “Wohl schön bewandt war es” (Liebesliederwalzer, op. 52 no. 7) [GIF files, 1, 2, 3; PostScript version, 1, 2, 3]
• Frédéric Chopin, Mazurka 5 in Bb Major, Op. 7 no. 1
• Frédéric Chopin, Mazurka 49 in F Minor, Op. posth. 68 no. 4 [GIF file]
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Symphony No. 4, Op. 90 ("Italian"), First Movement
• Robert Schumann, Carnaval, Op. 9 no. 4, Valse noble [GIF file]

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Acadia Early Music Archive [GJC]
The Acadia Early Music Archive has many scores of Renaissance and Baroque Music that can be downloaded.
The scores at the Acadia Early Music Archive are all in PostScript format. Consequently a PostScript printer is required to print the scores. The scores can be viewed (and printed with other printers) in a PostScript viewer, such as Ghostview.

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Perth Score Archive

The Perth Score Archive (Alan Bonds and Anthony Maydwell) also has scores of Renaissance and Baroque Music that can be downloaded.
The scores at this Archive are in Score format. In order to read and print these scores, one must use the Score viewer, Score Preview.

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