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 a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 607225
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 477468
Ein Musical zur Weihnachtszeit nach einer Geschichte von Peter Schindler
für Soli, Kinderchor, und Instrumente
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Percussion (orchestral part)
Item no.: 445044
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122271
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122514
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122478
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124753
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123872
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124927
R1667
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122603
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 826681
A Christmas Jubilee
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 823550
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 823531
Choral Moments for Fall and Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123510
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 174662
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1215621
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 245899
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 311969
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Item no.: 311870
Alpenlaendisches Liedgut
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 397297
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 552090
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388021
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Performance score for strings
Item no.: 145554
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122604
Edition Vieweg (Musikschätze vergangener Zeiten)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 292120
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 291718
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 824820
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823354
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
mit Kopierrecht
Item no.: 472371
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 643345
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Set of parts
Item no.: 647944
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609908
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 825187
for: Winds class (flexible winds ensemble); choir ad lib.
Single part Alto saxophone
Item no.: 291205
Thueringer Chorblaetter
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 346095
Heft 1
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 418549
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 934096
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 930547
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 929734
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 927904
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932469
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 948343
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910637
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 242730
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609553
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609549
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609526
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609488
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