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), flexible ensemble (4 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 599305
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 722381
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1272637
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1026976
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 661851
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914116
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 321934
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 899153
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 314034
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342478
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSAA); piano [organ] ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 649556
for: Voice [choir], piano
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 618700
for: Narrator, 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra; children's choir ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 649682
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1017011
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Buch + CD
Item no.: 586969
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1533193
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 933318
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 487871
for: Mixed choir (SAATTB) [6 voices] a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 554656
(Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730075
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813734
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 150226
for: 1–2 voices [children's choir], piano [guitar/keyboard]
Music score, CD
Item no.: 495758
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 663168
for: Women's choir (SS), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 564215
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 659166
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 315069
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 471624
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 363181
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920517
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 885621
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 460506
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 460551
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 338749
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 323800
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 151319
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 371894
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309593
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 308234
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 553742
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 564697
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 322009
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321914
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321843
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 556843
for: 2-4 voices [choir], instruments
Piano score
Item no.: 158139
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751478
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760306
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