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.
Hymnus de Nativitate Domini nostri Jesu Christi
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 556114
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 343029
for: Mixed choir (SATB); flexible ensemble ad lib.
Part 2 E-flat (alto saxophone / horn)
Item no.: 672227
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 587348
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 912608
for: Children's choir, instruments
Choir part
Item no.: 354648
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Lyric book
Item no.: 160603
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308108
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 308052
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 309653
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber ensemble
Choir score
Item no.: 309591
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 167378
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 281174
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202333
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203422
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; 2 violins, double bass ad lib.
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 673755
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 587356
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 308282
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 351882
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308911
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308907
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308873
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309166
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309137
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 229117
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 384566
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309783
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309778
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309686
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 471600
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 657078
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 644487
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 643393
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 140941
for: Mixed choir (SAB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 499197
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 649895
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 432777
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 892559
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 882651
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167632
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167600
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167521
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965553
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003126
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002802
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1002035
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002149
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