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: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 906452
(from Les Misérables)
Broadway Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 291365
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1010424
for Mixed Chorus ((SSAATTBB)) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 685027
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba; piano ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 262237
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 633560
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 364640
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 612422
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 227299
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 472346
for SATB and piano or small orchestra
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 660865
from Hair
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1672971
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1658973
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 431571
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862058
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 177429
A Symphony-Cantata after Texts from the Holy Scriptures
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695979
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 649084
a Comic Opera in Four Scenes
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1560741
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1562769
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SSAATTBarB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1549253
for: Male choir, guitar
Score
Item no.: 638425
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 865222
Madrigal for Mixed Choir with Piano or Orchestra Accompaniment
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [piano]; 4 soloists (SATB) ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 304695
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 164418
Oratorio in three acts HWV 70
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 564544
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Choir part Alto 1,2
Item no.: 209768
Oratorio in three acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 138371
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSAATTBB)
Score
Item no.: 692479
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 499108
Symphony-Cantata
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 159564
for: Mixed choir (4 voices) a cappella
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 772274
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 862046
for: 2 soloists (ABar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1611349
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 879393
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628406
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1618886
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 629013
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1643062
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1701728
for: Women's choir (SA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1684659
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano
Score (anthology)
Item no.: 769234
Opera with a Prologue and four Acts (First version) / Opera in five Acts (Second version)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 scores (hardcover, Urtext editions)
Item no.: 868775
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 683601
for: Mixed choir (SSATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697425
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1736787
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 287139
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343490
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