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
Music score
Item no.: 732583
Anthem
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 784077
Anthem
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur (mit Klavierauszug zu Probezwecken)
Item no.: 784068
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533121
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533111
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532900
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 814501
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812626
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809213
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804610
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803630
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 798198
from "Smash"
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746260
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746117
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746103
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746093
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 494231
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 798054
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652160
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126728
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 777466
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809058
from the Musical "Grease"
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746334
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746310
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746186
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 745304
Ballad for chorus and orchestra
MWV D3 (Op. 60), 1833
for: 4 soloists (ATBarB) [ATB], mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part bass)
Item no.: 1697174
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1658132
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 334918
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 938604
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Piano score, Choir score, audio file (pdf/mp3 download)
Item no.: 8038
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score, choir score
Item no.: 6472
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4611
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 210984
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 697592
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 692193
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 690633
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 797745
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 797728
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 797713
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 762093
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 761939
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 798109
from Frozen
Disney Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 745617
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 863564
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 642324
for: Women's choir (3 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 885869
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532338
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