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: Women's choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 312719
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 149483
for: Mixed choir (ATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 458948
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 184321
Weihnachtskantate
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 169986
Ausgabe in D
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 669512
Ausgabe in D
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 669513
Ausgabe in D
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 669514
Ausgabe in D
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 669517
Griechisches Weihnachtslied
for: Children's choir [women's choir], orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1016514
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 632371
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825645
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825372
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823074
Orchestration
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1059209
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1086364
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 498395
Harold Flammer WorshipSongs Jr
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 824994
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 290183
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 290113
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 189788
Ein Musical zur Weihnachtszeit nach einer Geschichte von Peter Schindler
für Soli, Kinderchor, und Instrumente
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 444970
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 584999
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 274877
Sueddeutsche Weihnachtsmusik 8
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 344259
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 607255
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 333768
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 271979
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 455790
Dormi In Suavia
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSATB), 2 flutes, strings, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 365828
Gospels + Spirituals 12
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 289182
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 475653
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 457379
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 486348
Ein Singspiel für die Weihnachtszeit mit Motiven aus Lukas 16,19-31
Die biblischen Singspiele von Ulrich Gohl sind ein Versuch, Kinder und Erwachsene mitgestaltend am Gottesdienst zu beteiligen.
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Set of parts
Item no.: 424009
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 370742
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608439
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608435
Geistliche Gesangsmusik 28~Organum Reihe 1
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 215808
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 242640
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 178529
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125724
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124304
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124182
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1085259
for: Choir
Item no.: 387973
for: Winds class (flexible winds ensemble); choir ad lib.
Single part Flute
Item no.: 190145
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 298240
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