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 (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 297971
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 196662
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 199968
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Score
Item no.: 445065
for: Mixed choir (SAB/SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 204793
for: Mixed choir (SAB/SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 204791
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 283402
(Midnight Mass for Christmas)
Arrangement for soloists, choir and organ
for: 5 soloists (SSTTB), mixed choir (SSTTB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1017419
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1289380
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1289379
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1289377
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1289372
for: Mixed choir, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1289834
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1316121
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments [organ]
Score
Item no.: 173234
for: Women's choir (SS/SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 311866
(Jahreswende)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744548
Aus Franken (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744547
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 722385
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 722377
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 596819
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594502
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 592579
Das Chorwerk
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 779937
for: Voice [mixed choir (SATB) / solo wind instrument / 4 brass winds], concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 587594
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string quartet; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591008
for: Mixed choir, 4 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590976
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590924
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590891
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590887
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590808
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 740371
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761202
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751474
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751462
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751461
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747878
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 738905
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738795
(Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 737816
aus dem "Messias"
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 722938
Köln 1608 (GL 236 ö)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725749
Gottes Sohn ward heut' gebor'n
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725412
Aus Schlesien
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725407
(Switzerland)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726421
(Germany)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726412
(Egypt)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726399
"O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden", Str. 9 und 10 (Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730071
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