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.
Festival Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1712083
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 673116
"Christ lag in Todes Banden"
Cantata for Easter Sunday
– Graduated prices on request –
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1703391
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 606230
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 922491
Festival Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1712084
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 644137
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 223297
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 677101
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628543
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628494
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1628162
Pop Voxx series
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano [accordion] ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1013209
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532924
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 242367
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 493019
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 447136
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, the parish, wind ensemble, rhythm group (piano, guitar, drums)
Piano score
Item no.: 775029
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1149434
Cantata for the 18th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bachausgaben
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 661119
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 428480
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1628393
URTEXT Neuausgabe nach den Quellen
deutsch / englisch (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 608628
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 559598
Chorale cantata
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 235788
Cantata for the 13th Sunday after Trinity – Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben – revised edition 2017
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233268
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1059081
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 497387
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 186344
for: Choir
Study book
Item no.: 692647
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087181
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985793
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985434
for: Women's choir (SSAA), string quartet, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 682189
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 662581
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet), piano
Score
Item no.: 618969
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 616686
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 373553
Ode to St Cecilia
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1340592
for: Women's choir (SA) [Mixed choir (SAM)], piano
Piano score
Item no.: 649385
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984627
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984620
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984538
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984532
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984521
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984519
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984513
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984508
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