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, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124874
for: Male choir (TBarBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 107215
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 859597
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 107558
from "Vesperae solennes de Confessore" KV 339
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 375732
from "Vesperae solennes de Confessore"
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 117052
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts (Wind instruments)
Item no.: 681261
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117241
for: Women's choir (SSA), strings
Score
Item no.: 656579
Dramma giocoso in two acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116415
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 616224
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), strings
Piano reduction
Item no.: 766724
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 378830
for: Soloists, children's choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 177653
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284549
for: Children's choir, instruments
Item no.: 136891
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 180830
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 676189
Second version with the variant of the Osanna in excelsis and the Cum Sancto Spiritu Fugue from the first version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116963
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 112820
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, 2 violins, alto, cello, double bass
Score
Item no.: 778348
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 297599
Edition Peters Green Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score (with piano part)
Item no.: 378506
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 682926
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 432144
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 684743
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for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 212829
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 383672
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 311702
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 660890
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 606057
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 984810
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 432762
Bärenreiter Urtext-Ausgabe (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 425834
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 326059
from the 'Messiah'
HWV 56, No. 36
Urtext Stuttgarter Handel-Editions
Complete orchestral material
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Set of parts
Item no.: 685549
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 151786
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 602055
Opera Vocal Score Series (Ricordi)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260576
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1104032
Kantate (Brieftexte europäischer Widerstandskämpfer)
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 176788
Messkomposition für Solo-Sopran, großen gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB) und Band
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), violin, bandoneon [accordion], piano, double bass, drumset, percussion
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 674823
Sammelband; Die Motetten von Johann Ludwig Bach nehmen innerhalb ihrer Gattung eine herausragende Stellung ein. (Collection)
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 193770
Trinitatismesse
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 667297
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1070235
for: Choral
Item no.: 1562365
Christina Stürmers Hymne an die Menschlichkeit 2016, auch gern als Hochzeitslied gesungen
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 778728
Oper in 3 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 908342
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