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: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 556228
for: Male choir
Choir book
Item no.: 161063
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 608145
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 157860
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 100614
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 462412
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 460520
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 616529
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir book
Item no.: 608840
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch + CD
Item no.: 578332
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 485925
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 475189
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 471214
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1667479
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 801865
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 321219
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812034
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Book
Item no.: 908029
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 649924
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 635715
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 631768
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 663169
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 477438
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 477413
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 483669
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 477459
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 476403
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801594
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 479168
Hinshaw Concert
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 602849
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 171680
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 237598
for: Children's choir (1 voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 169143
Singspiel zu Weihnachten
for: Children's choir (1 voice), the parish, instruments
Choir score (for the parish)
Item no.: 231468
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1154305
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1151626
Motet
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1549899
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 693139
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 584864
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1167732
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 858795
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 459734
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1040312
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 256596
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204037
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 138886
for: Choir (1 part), 2 descant recorders, piano
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 146441
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 673378
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