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: Choir, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 116241
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 116127
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 247853
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 331361
Symphony-Cantata
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 229359
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 339190
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 161788
Oratorio on Words from the Holy Scriptures
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 341539
(Urtext)
for: Piano, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 294803
(Urtext)
for: Piano, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 294800
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; Glockenspiel [triangle] ad lib.
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 777016
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 770505
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 770259
with a 2nd Benedictus D 961
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 552454
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Single part Viola da gamba 1
Item no.: 368669
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 171882
for: Children's choir (2 voices), pian; strings ad lib.
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 495218
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1154488
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154483
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154479
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154450
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1154435
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1154402
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1154375
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154260
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154222
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1154211
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1154067
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1154047
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1153985
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1152397
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1152369
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1152360
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152312
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1152299
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1152267
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1152210
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1152178
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152162
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1152155
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152143
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152115
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152048
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1152028
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1151949
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1151922
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1151797
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1151750
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