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, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 312260
for: Children's choir (SMezA), piano
Score
Item no.: 466353
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 209845
for: Children's choir [women's choir] (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 139685
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1265987
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (4 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1264394
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (4 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1264383
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 177053
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2–3 parts)
Score
Item no.: 409323
Oratorium In Festum Nativitatis Christi (GraunWV Bv:IX:18)
Aufführungsmaterial leihweise direkt beim ortus Verlag
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 135810
for: 1–2 voices [children's choir]; guitar [keyboard] ad lib.
Songbook (melody, chords, lyrics)
Item no.: 1654330
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 woodwinds (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591043
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 woodwinds (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591032
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string quartet; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591006
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590895
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590813
for: Mixed choir, 5 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590766
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590669
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590667
for: Mixed choir (SATB), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 588910
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588207
for: Mixed choir, piano
Sheet music, Download (mp3)
Item no.: 1232639
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1219662
for: Mixed choir, 4 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1258040
for: Mixed choir, 4 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1258034
for: Mixed choir, 4 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1258028
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string quartet; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1257998
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string quartet; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1257992
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 woodwinds (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1257976
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1269825
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1269820
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1269815
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1269813
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1269807
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 1061372
Cantata for the 2nd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 232955
Christmas motet
Cantus firmus "From Heaven Above"
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 232588
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 673462
Cantata for Christmas Day
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116709
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 606570
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 446637
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 422024
for: Choir (1 voice), organ
Score
Item no.: 348500
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 277014
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), the parish, children's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 235841
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 235644
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 192752
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