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
CD
Item no.: 935508
Du stiegst herab vom Himmel
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 746584
aus op. 5; Mel.: Hohenfut 1410, Erfurt 1524 (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744553
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 556436
for: Mixed choir (SAM), solo voice, piano
Choir score with piano accompaniment
Item no.: 612989
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 486701
for: 1–4 voices [choir], piano
10 Choir scores
Item no.: 280889
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Lyric book
Item no.: 160602
Neue Weihnachtslieder für Familie und Gemeinde
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 424081
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204813
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204798
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 351264
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212368
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 471215
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893181
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 628375
for: Women's choir (SA/SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 577122
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 446865
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920349
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 891694
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Ensemble score
Item no.: 283412
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 628229
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 490761
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1634293
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 892429
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1340382
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1340376
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339584
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339543
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 119713
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 892403
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 903636
for: Choir (1 voice), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 321992
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 863552
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 275400
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 272524
for: Women's choir [ssa], piano; flute ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 494944
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 607121
for: Women's choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 476405
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 475421
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 471623
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 659444
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 658778
for: Accordion orchestra; mixed choir (SATB) ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 657236
for: Mixed choir (1-4 parts), organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 690401
Galopp
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 760501
Nigerian Christmas Carol for two-part choir and percussion ad libitum
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (2 voices) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 679903
for three-part Choir and Piano
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 679771
© 2004–2024 by Stretta Music. Order and buy sheet music online.
Your specialist for all kinds of sheet music. Online shop, sheet music, music scores and play along for download, books, music stands, music stand lights, accessories.
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.
switch to Stretta Music Worldwide
stay on Stretta Music Denmark
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Luxembourg
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Finland
Sweden
Poland
Czech Republic
United Kingdom
