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: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 326059
Lobgesang des Jean Racine Des-Dur op. 11
Stimmensatz (Org-6-5-4-3-3)
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 649570
for: Women's choir [children's choir] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 445793
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 660890
Urtext from the new Beethoven Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695812
Cantata after Psalm 103
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 633906
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 186332
for: Mixed choir (SAATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 284037
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 350903
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 299756
for: Children's choir (1–3 parts), narrator, instruments
Score
Item no.: 377398
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 466853
Bärenreiter Urtext-Ausgabe (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 425834
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 107558
for: Women's choir (SA) [children's choir], organ [piano]
Score, choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 6151
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 326420
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 112820
for: Choir (2 voices), piano; treble recorder ad lib.
Conductor's score
Item no.: 1558725
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 297599
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 295312
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 491175
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 311702
for: Mixed choir (SABar)
Choir book
Item no.: 559860
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for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 212829
Second version with the variant of the Osanna in excelsis and the Cum Sancto Spiritu Fugue from the first version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116963
Dramma giocoso in two acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116415
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 416698
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 214245
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 383672
for: Women's choir (SS), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 479976
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 233172
Urtext based on the New Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 432664
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 432762
Edition Peters Green Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score (with piano part)
Item no.: 378506
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Music score
Item no.: 758506
from the 'Messiah'
HWV 56, No. 36
Urtext Stuttgarter Handel-Editions
Complete orchestral material
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Set of parts
Item no.: 685549
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 151786
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 602055
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1104032
Kantate (Brieftexte europäischer Widerstandskämpfer)
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 176788
Messkomposition für Solo-Sopran, großen gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB) und Band
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), violin, bandoneon [accordion], piano, double bass, drumset, percussion
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 674823
Trinitatismesse
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 667297
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1070235
for: Choral
Item no.: 1562365
Christina Stürmers Hymne an die Menschlichkeit 2016, auch gern als Hochzeitslied gesungen
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 778728
Oper in 3 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 908342
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931515
"Gott! Auf Dein Wort erscheinen wir"
Denkmäler der Musik in Salzburg 1
for: Mixed choir (SAB), 2 horns, organ
Score, CD
Item no.: 291882
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