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 (SSATBB), 2 pianos
Score
Item no.: 352331
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285560
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 278594
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 644137
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score (women voices)
Item no.: 493757
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260596
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 490833
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 289959
for mixed choruses
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 564239
for: Children's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 255900
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 1042927
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 364104
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1633949
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 868008
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 345066
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660825
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660819
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660789
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660785
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660780
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660778
for mixed chorus (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668015
Nr. 2 aus: Four Songs at Year's End
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1677306
for mixed voices (SATB) and piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1677850
Cantata for funeral service / Purification of Mary.
Reconstruction Klaus Hofmann
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1671981
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 550827
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105378
Folk
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330911
A holistic and integrative approach to group vocal development
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 951760
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982861
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105440
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103571
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1093225
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 912377
Companion
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 919536
The Poetry of Faith Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121086
Geistliche Musik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1551204
from Sing Evermore!
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1634302
for SATB Voices and Keyboard Accompaniment
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1677374
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343076
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1557328
The Music of Heather Sorenson
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1556741
Geistliche Musik
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1635236
Secular Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 670406
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1560646
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 907759
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 917808
für Frauenchor
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 679825
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