Looking for something to inspire your local choir or choral society? Our extensive range of choral repertoire includes works for Mixed Choir, Male Voice Choir, Female Voice Choir, Children’s & Youth Choirs, and Senior’s Choir, singing a Capella, with piano accompaniment, and with various other ensembles up to full orchestra.
Choral singing began to take form in the 9th & 10th Centuries, with the unison Gregorian Chant or Plain Chant. From the early Renaissance period, through composers like Palestrina , di Lasso and William Byrd true polyphonic choral music blossomed, and crescendo-ed through to a wonderful climax with Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium for 40 parts, divided into 8 choirs.
As the form developed through the Renaissance into the Baroque period, composers such as Bach, Telemann and Händel gave the choir more and more autonomy, and through early operas and oratorios, married solo voices, choirs and orchestras together, to create these new musical forms, and inspired audiences with combinations of colours and sounds they had never before experienced.
Although there were many operas and oratorios written in the Classical period, sacred music also took a prominent role in shaping the development of choral music. While the chorus became a very useful tool on stage, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven composed many Masses, Requiems, Te Deums and Anthems to help brighten the world of church music, and uplift the hearts and souls of the congregation.
As opera continued to expand and stretch dramatic boundaries, choral music of the Romantic period was characterised by choral motets and anthems, and the oratorio grew into an even more varied and contrasting form. The oratorios Elijah and Paul are particularly noteworthy, since despite using Sacred themes, through the various musical facets at Mendelssohn’s disposal, they began to take on a much more operatic narrative. This can also be seen in the Requiems of Brahms and Verdi, where the choir itself, along with the orchestra, lead the dramatic storytelling.
Through the 20th Century, composers such as Ralf Vaughan Williams, Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg, Benjamin Britten and Edward Elgar composed extensively for varying choral forces. Through these composers and many others, we begin to see choirs being tested and stretched, both technically and dramatically, and being pushed out of their comfort zone in order to inspire, shock and entice the audience. Works like Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden made a huge impact on the choral landscape.
In the modern era, new choral genres such as Gospel Choir, Pop Ensembles and Jazz & Swing emerged. Composers like John Rutter, Karl Jenkins, Bob Chilcott and Andrew Lloyd Webber have become very popular.
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 319620
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 634667
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 210956
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 191699
for: Mixed choir (SABar); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 191440
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 172444
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 687587
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano [accordion]
Score
Item no.: 341317
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 339897
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 312975
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 274870
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1687783
from "My Fair Lady" for male choir (TTBB) and piano
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 2
Item no.: 1681077
for: Male choir
Choir part Tenor 2
Item no.: 1651730
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 696337
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 296856
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 317305
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 291089
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 486704
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 143373
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1160736
Festival Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1712083
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 673116
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 471515
"Christ lag in Todes Banden"
Cantata for Easter Sunday
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for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1703391
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 606230
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 922491
Festival Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1712084
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 644137
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 334535
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 223297
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 635251
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 677101
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260596
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628543
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628494
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1628162
Pop Voxx series
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano [accordion] ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1013209
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532924
Oratorio
for Soli, Chorus and Orchestra
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284222
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 242367
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816183
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815518
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 803127
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 799973
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 493019
Choral music for all occasions in the original notational image, sorted by genres and themes
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for: Women's choir [children's choir] a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 664593
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 223587
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