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.: 1018960
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043207
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809541
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 803067
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
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for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
CD
Item no.: 1043190
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1022913
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 817815
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815231
for: Narrator, flexible ensemble (school orchestra); children's choir ad lib.
Horn (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1660486
Erstausgabe nach den Klosterneuburger Stimmen
Urtext Stuttgarter Schubert-Ausgaben
unbezeichnete Stimme
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237193
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 645745
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 583324
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 171188
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1212582
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1212551
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1212502
for: Choir
OTHER
Item no.: 1342837
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341737
for: Choir
Piano reduction
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for: Choir
Piano reduction
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for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341409
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
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for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342196
for: Choir
Piano reduction
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for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1342072
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 818965
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 818796
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 818492
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 686984
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 1178277
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1136650
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1121046
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
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for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 932641
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
CD
Item no.: 846929
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764291
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764264
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 763001
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811141
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 1
Item no.: 122492
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003262
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 865899
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