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: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 936110
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 944599
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 946932
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 945134
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 945507
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905337
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 904919
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 902605
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 908898
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 901147
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 898822
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 898698
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 898596
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 849559
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 941909
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 939869
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 846725
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 763257
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 763148
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 762718
for: Youth concert band; choir ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 696489
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 764020
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763931
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 763822
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 637685
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 609883
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSATB), 2 flutes, strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 1657125
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1651838
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1666874
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1660187
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1126135
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123460
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 371866
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1038929
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 948596
for: Soloists, mixed choir, big band
Score
Item no.: 371508
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 311793
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 658329
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 656266
for: 4 voices [4 melodic instruments]
Score
Item no.: 566330
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 555491
for: Soloists, mixed choir, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 688042
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 887488
for: 2 soloists (SA), favorit choir (SSATB), 5 melodic instruments, organ
Score
Item no.: 231806
for: Mixed choir, strings
Score
Item no.: 455788
for: Women's choir (SSA), harp, organ, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 200670
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 456037
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