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, organ
Book
Item no.: 990255
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125027
(StudioTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124028
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 826423
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123276
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825430
Geistliches Konzert
Hoch rühmt und ehrt meine Seele Gott den Herrn
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Chor 2, Instrument 3
Item no.: 661215
A Cantata for Advent and Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825869
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 935178
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 937185
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, CD
Item no.: 847652
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764207
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764200
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764174
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 762972
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 762969
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 762945
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 907659
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 847518
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762504
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843521
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003095
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002661
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 315854
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003343
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003289
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003134
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 885181
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 387952
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 199966
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 637609
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 801729
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805404
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806022
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1022383
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1641218
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813901
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805222
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814293
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814054
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341513
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1156979
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1158663
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1156306
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1157800
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]; cello ad lib.
Single part (Cello solo)
Item no.: 612107
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