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: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 140605
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 423886
Chorale cantata
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (bass), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 422208
Cantata for New Year's Day; Circumcision of Christ
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 344734
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 234132
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 234062
Cantata for the 20th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233979
Actus tragicus. Trauermusik
BWV 106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233630
Motet – "Jesu, meine Freude"
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); instruments colla parte, basso continuo ad lib.
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 226945
for: 3 soloists (STBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 155427
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1160921
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 424910
Cantata for the inauguration of a new town council
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ solo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 232880
Jubilate
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232822
for: Favorit choir (SATB), mixed choir (SATB)
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232137
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 235561
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205768
for: Solo voice (soprano/alto), women's choir (SSA), oboe, 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 491178
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 485326
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 768737
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 915889
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 100536
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 632324
Hunting Cantata
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 797985
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 655156
for: Youth choir [female choir] (SA), piano
Score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 691404
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1611917
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1738814
Symphony cantata
Arrangement for chamber orchestra
MWV A 18
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SSAATB), chamber orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1558389
for children's chorus and / or mixed chorus and piano score
for: Children's choir (one voice), mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ/ orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 560013
Constructing for Success
for: Choir
Study book, online video
Item no.: 762095
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 614480
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 638474
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 334917
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1042923
from The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 634906
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 344833
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 319234
A Joyous Celebration of the Season
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1690089
From 'Sea Chanteys'
for tenor and bass a cappella
for: Male choir (TB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1682165
F-Dur
for: Mixed choir (SSATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1697106
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1207729
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1321265
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103252
for: School class
Book, CD
Item no.: 972255
Augsburg Choral Library
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1023496
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103348
A Service for Tenebrae
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121076
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