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.
Geistliche Chormusik Nr. 12
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Music score
Item no.: 739702
Auf das Weihnachtsfest
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725411
Altes Schweizer Weihnachtslied
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725402
Lieder des 16. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725383
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753817
(Vertrauen und Hoffnung)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753408
(Vertrauen und Hoffnung)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753407
(Vertrauen und Hoffnung)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753406
(Lob und Dank)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753405
(Ostern)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753385
(Passion)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753381
(Jahreswende)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753376
for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo [organ] ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 5698
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5399
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 5245
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4032
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3560
for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 3549
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 4045
for: Mixed choir (SSAB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1162
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 604581
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 911909
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 151363
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 889358
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 679503
for: Women's choir (SA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1338060
for: Choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 1338766
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 678353
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309761
for: Solo voice (baritone), mixed choir (SATB)
Score
Item no.: 471770
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1340167
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1340108
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339895
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Organ reduction
Item no.: 687725
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 628281
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 889803
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 880026
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 877500
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 494596
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 619172
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 487903
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 322033
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321979
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321916
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 911145
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 893655
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 900766
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 243433
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