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: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 778815
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 777969
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 777718
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 775768
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 258473
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 258471
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001750
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003524
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003523
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003477
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003463
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003434
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003408
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003365
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003239
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003219
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003205
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003170
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003135
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003058
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003023
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003012
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002973
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002929
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002880
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002727
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002617
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002615
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002585
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002570
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002547
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002542
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315866
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1327063
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1327009
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1326960
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326959
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326916
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326883
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1011423
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003417
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002994
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002765
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002166
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002100
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965191
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 964957
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315913
There is a separate Stretta website for the country Worldwide. If your order is to be delivered to this country, you can switch, so that delivery times and shipping conditions are displayed correctly. Your shopping cart and your customer account will remain the same.