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: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 931179
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732640
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732623
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751860
1. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme / 2. Der Tag vertreibt die finstre Nacht
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751554
(Brazil)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726425
(Germany)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726413
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 725022
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738389
3. O freudenreicher Tag
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742455
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 740056
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (4 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 598627
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 598144
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 598142
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588213
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588211
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588205
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588201
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761221
Galopp
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 760501
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595528
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595189
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 592577
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 592565
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594302
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 woodwinds (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591039
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 woodwinds (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591028
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string quartet; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591004
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string quartet; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590995
for: Mixed choir, 4 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590972
for: Mixed choir, 4 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590941
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590819
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590810
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590809
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590706
for: Male choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 587621
for: Mixed choir (SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 147444
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 242680
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 669540
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 477418
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 171901
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 577359
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 476793
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 326221
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, keyboard instrument
Score
Item no.: 774992
for: Mixed choir (3–4 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 371465
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1289370
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1316125
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