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 (SA), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 679448
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 678345
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 643471
for: Women's choir (SSSSAAAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 628320
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Score
Item no.: 628313
A Madrigal from "A Garland for The Queen"
for: Mixed choir (SMezATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 726665
"Lord of Sea and Earth and Air"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 750517
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1565921
Gospelsong (Lob und Dank)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 744585
"Wiege dich, meine Seele, in Abrahams Schoß"; Spiritual; Text nach Luk. 16, 19-25 (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 744584
for male choir
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 743585
for: Choir
Choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1642706
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1642697
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678444
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 481275
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777440
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 762048
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 761958
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 692193
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 690639
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 690636
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 690633
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 616706
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1712060
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1659425
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1658132
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 913454
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 373736
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 194830
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 132973
for: Voices (body percussion), drums
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 143876
Oratorio
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 359617
for: Favorit choir (SSSATTBarB), mixed choir (SATB), 4 viole da gamba, basso continuo [organ]
Score
Item no.: 425139
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 297949
for: Mixed choir; organ [piano] ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 301765
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 330475
for: Women's choir (SSA/SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 363007
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 369840
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 361382
for: Mixed choir (SAABar) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 494149
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260149
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 187280
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 425556
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 181055
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1546369
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895258
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 154218
Cantata for the 20th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233977
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