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
CD
Item no.: 1169527
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1169476
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 661580
Nigerian Christmas Carol for men's choir (TTB) and percussion ad libitum
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 679904
for: Mixed choir (SATB), parish, orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 685054
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 649756
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 430510
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 424291
for: Voice (mezzo-soprano/baritone), keyboard instrument; mixed choir (SATB) ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 460235
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 182894
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 169223
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 241690
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 233059
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 231409
"in nativitate Domini"
Orchestral version
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 237545
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 236160
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 233896
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 192752
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1613193
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 889751
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167705
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167619
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167615
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167585
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167583
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167543
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167661
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167467
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167461
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1167363
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167361
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965624
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965387
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965671
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965558
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 965512
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965423
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965420
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965416
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003171
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1011703
Medley for Band and optional Choir
Discovery Plus Band Series – A Series for Developing Bands
for: Youth concert band; choir ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 673397
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811797
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811579
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811512
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813415
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813651
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