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 a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 297372
Originalsprache und deutscher Text
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 602969
for: Children's choir, piano
Item no.: 193489
for: Mixed choir (3–4 parts) a cappella
Item no.: 189581
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 402952
Ave Maria SSA + Klavier
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score, Piano score, Organ score
Item no.: 493055
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Set of parts
Item no.: 420002
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609907
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609894
Weihnachtskantate (Gesamtausgabe) (Complete edition)
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Item no.: 237686
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 932418
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 935034
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934583
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 934577
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 931619
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 930884
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 933754
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 929544
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 929024
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 942223
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 943592
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939774
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939682
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 936285
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936228
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939253
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939242
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 938644
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935822
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 935175
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 940621
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936662
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 948782
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 948035
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 764421
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 908788
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 907527
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 907181
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 906601
for: Male choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 764024
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763935
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763327
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763299
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 762716
(Süßes kleines Baby höre unser Lied)
Weihnachtslied mit deutschem Text nach einer jamaikanischen Volksweise
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 660004
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609007
Ein schönes Weihnachtslied nach der bekannten bolivianischen Volksweise „El Condor Pasa“.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 662826
Songs to Light the World
for: Children's choir, piano
Choir book
Item no.: 1690100
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