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.: 317227
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 903347
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801407
for: Soloist (soprano), women's choir (SA), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 376317
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 199949
16 leichte Chorsätze in Originalsprache und mit singbaren deutschen Texten für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1665176
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Organ score
Item no.: 864497
Band 1: Advents-, Weihnachts- und Winterlieder für gem. Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1671786
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 936569
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 633726
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano; percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745997
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 121928
for: Choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 121923
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167535
for: 4 soloists (SSAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1612001
Sing
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 204906
(Urtext)
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 181769
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 466290
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 428152
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374919
for: Choral
Item no.: 1376165
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375891
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375378
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375327
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373934
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373651
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373090
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374719
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano/organ [2 violins, cello] ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 649585
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 621412
Christmas Carol
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Choir (1 voice), organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 817157
Sacred Music from the 21st to 26th Sunday after Trinity and from the first Advent to the 3rd Christmas Day
Georg Philipp Telemann. Musical Works 53
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 868782
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 1617041
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 579891
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 283400
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 283396
Sacred cantata
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 869359
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Performance score for winds
Item no.: 116872
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1019904
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 564885
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 765212
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1346019
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309408
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 654882
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 663501
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 106048
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 768521
for: Mixed choir (SATB), harp [piano]
Score
Item no.: 498359
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