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: Winds class (flexible winds ensemble); choir ad lib.
Part for horn (in E-flat)
Item no.: 291211
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 746087
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 615771
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 120162
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747083
"Das Volk, das im Finstern wandelt" (Jesaja 9)
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ
Partitur = Orgelstimme
Item no.: 746947
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 1
Item no.: 729966
A Christmas Story
for: Children's choir, instruments
Choir part
Item no.: 724284
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 616016
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920501
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308905
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308560
for: Children's choir
Score
Item no.: 309094
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308717
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308707
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 638265
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308965
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320558
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325617
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325595
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117255
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1092219
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111602
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 938674
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168601
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002111
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 868996
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1085296
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 611738
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 916870
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1149590
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1153348
"Dort hoch auf dem Berge, da wehet der Wind"
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSAA)
Choir score
Item no.: 742375
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 675703
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 898025
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1193509
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 904423
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959795
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960549
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097080
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097069
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096923
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960149
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959868
for: Mixed choir, piano
Instrumental part 3 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1203884
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 851626
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 215340
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1627475
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