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 (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804967
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804927
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803383
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 494809
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802758
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802607
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802267
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814276
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814142
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798279
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799640
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 799477
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 319073
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 604201
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSAA); piano [organ] ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 649556
for: Mixed choir (SABar); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 635555
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 139871
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342478
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116270
Christkindlmesse
Revidierte und liturgisch ergänzte Neuausgabe von Josef Lammerz
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 290146
Gothic print
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for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 114770
for: Mixed choir, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 369766
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1549911
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 117525
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 364218
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 339933
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1618361
(… der Träume als Blätter hat)
Magisches Weihnachtslied, das zu Herzen geht!
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 659996
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 464946
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1115041
for: Children's choir (1–2 parts), piano
Score
Item no.: 610606
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 891856
for: Mixed choir (SATB), concert band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 1190226
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 631640
Jazzig, groovig, szenisch
10 beliebte Weihnachtslieder in neuem Gewand
for: Children's choir, piano
Music score
Item no.: 495759
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 553742
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 663615
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 323800
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 556843
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901714
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 363181
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321914
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 322009
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321843
for: Mixed choir, piano; percussion ad lib.
Songbook
Item no.: 138254
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 617753
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
Piano score XL in large, reader-friendly print
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Piano reduction (XL format)
Item no.: 663110
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1157490
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