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.
A Medley of Carols/ SoundTrax CD
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir
Play-along CD 1
Item no.: 696646
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763870
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 763566
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 763518
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 763150
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 380699
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126673
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126545
Die Weihnachtsgeschichte mit Songs, Spirituals und Sprechtexten nach dem Lukas-Evangelium
Basisausgabe für Männerchor
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB), narrator; guitar [keyboard] ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 191566
16 neue Chorlieder für die Vorweihnachtszeit für drei gleiche Stimmen (SAA)
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 300809
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 456574
Responsoria ad Matutinum in nativitate Domini MH 639
Urtext-Ausgabe
for: Mixed choir, 2 violins, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 472587
for: 4 voices [4 melodic instruments]
Choir score
Item no.: 569777
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124938
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121428
24 Winter-, Advents- und Weihnachtslieder je für gemischten Chor und für gleiche Stimmen
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Songbook
Item no.: 312449
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"op. 57
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Chorstimme
Item no.: 300993
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 847979
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 848868
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 944667
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 944548
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 946873
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 947946
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932755
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 928550
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 928315
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 928189
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 931637
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 931404
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931173
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 930857
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 930739
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912085
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 910834
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 930319
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 930104
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 929581
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 928865
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905165
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 904473
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 899967
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 893518
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 941807
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 941529
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 943124
for: Choir
Bücher-Set
Item no.: 942408
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