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), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805494
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804746
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804510
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804502
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799808
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 798953
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798764
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798539
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 798376
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801032
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 799662
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799435
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 800531
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Buch
Item no.: 314592
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 127900
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808692
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 808544
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815811
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815596
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808982
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813471
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813433
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813390
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 813377
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813341
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813140
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813052
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 813773
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 555042
known as "Messa per la notte di natale" / first edition
for: 3 soloists (TBarB), mixed choir (SATTB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 765232
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 899483
Kantate zum 3. Weihnachtsfesttag (Urfassung)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1659317
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 490788
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 235090
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 137184
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1156713
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1150289
for: Choir (2 voices) a cappella
2 Scores
Item no.: 489617
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 554203
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 476389
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 477539
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 659214
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 553534
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 627287
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850981
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 278599
for: Children's choir [women's choir]
Score
Item no.: 332587
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