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), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003021
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965630
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965438
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965413
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167800
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167659
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1169047
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1167587
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1167487
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965706
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965695
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965448
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965348
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 965292
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169571
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169523
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169505
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 348279
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1022387
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 649058
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 659963
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806281
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SABar), narrator; instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 631209
for: Male choir
Item no.: 1702454
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806698
for: Male choir, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 312588
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1156364
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1159564
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir book
Item no.: 490668
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 662409
for: Male choir (TTB); latin percussion, double bass ad. lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 807150
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893096
for: Mixed choir, strings
Score
Item no.: 343832
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 803106
Kleine Adventskantate für gemischten Chor und Instrumente
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1663948
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124994
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 477458
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 948283
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 476418
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 476360
for: Mixed choir a cappella
CD
Item no.: 655289
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 477437
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 742328
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747873
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 735855
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761218
(Ethipia)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756203
for: 3-Part Children's Choir, Violin, Piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1479730
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