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 (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 689509
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 688964
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 194830
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 420704
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 1618747
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1627561
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1627550
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1627533
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1619965
for: Solo voice (baritone), mixed choir (SSAATTBB)
Score
Item no.: 1010599
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 772235
for: Mixed choir (SMezATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695455
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 694349
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 661619
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1558781
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1556385
English Text Only
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 302972
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 659352
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 229219
for: Children's choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 663230
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 425556
for: Mixed choir (SSAAB), piano [keyboard/guitar]
Score, 10 Choir scores, Piano accompaniment
Item no.: 550873
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862056
for: Male choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1627787
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628378
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1628337
for: Male choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 922652
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1628199
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1713805
(Spy, Isuse, Spy)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 1655338
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1702031
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1546369
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820558
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1654422
for: Mixed choir (SMezATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 654841
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Choir part Tenor 1, 2
Item no.: 432057
Laßt Gott erstehn HWV 256b
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 154013
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862163
for: Voices (body percussion), drums
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 143876
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 399232
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1544745
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 670340
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 154106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 746266
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 346984
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895476
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 893902
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 645962
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