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: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805404
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806022
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1192860
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1022383
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1641218
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814029
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813901
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 813600
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809286
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532522
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 (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 797704
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 798952
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 483666
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764113
for: Choir
Item no.: 884095
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625514
for: Women's choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1340907
Cantata for the Feast of Annunciation Day
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 385523
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 879308
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 904767
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]; cello ad lib.
Single part (Cello solo)
Item no.: 612107
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341528
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341513
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 cornetts [oboes/ violins], basso continuo
Violin 2 [Oboe/ Cornett 2] (orchestral part)
Item no.: 455700
Christmas music
for three-part chorus, two violins and basso continuo
for: Mixed choir (SAB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Single part Cello [Basso continuo]
Item no.: 372586
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1158883
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1158663
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1160278
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 116210
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 873132
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1156979
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1156596
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1156306
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1155901
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1155246
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152654
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1152603
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1150780
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1150527
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1157893
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1157800
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1149705
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317269
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097230
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100716
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