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 (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 690636
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part alto)
Item no.: 661157
for: Mixed choir; organ [piano] ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 301765
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 298784
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1565921
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 343580
Gospels and Spirituals for mixed choir (partly with piano)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 1664375
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 194640
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 621281
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 206785
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1120911
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 693535
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 269109
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862071
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321885
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 310803
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 558216
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660821
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660816
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660773
for: Mixed choir (SAM), organ
Score
Item no.: 1559415
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1532687
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1532675
for: Children's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 770307
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 899048
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285553
9th Sunday after Trinity
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285499
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 469798
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260149
for: Descant recorder, choir (one voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 894619
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 632077
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 630890
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 906216
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 644675
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895258
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 132973
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 106158
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1106595
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 492464
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 432036
for: Mixed choir; piano [organ]
Choir book
Item no.: 618387
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1546180
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 899279
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 486703
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 909233
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 106726
for: Soloists, male choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 663226
Choral Cantata
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, violone, basso continuo
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 114733
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