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: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 371695
für die heilige Christnacht
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 371367
for: Mixed choir (6 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 474878
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 280362
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 128147
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 313183
Charols In Jazz
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Item no.: 273752
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 302620
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 825239
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825895
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122605
Musique sacrée française
for: Mixed choir (SATTB), baroque orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 687548
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Item no.: 343264
Praetorius: Gott, heilger Schöpfer aller Stern - Vittoria: Ave Maria - Vulpius: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland - Bonitz: O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf
Edition Schultheiss
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 293271
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 223754
Flute
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151271
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 248288
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 455677
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 145830
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 145603
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 146213
Ein Musical zur Weihnachtszeit
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 770273
oder "Hirten auf dem Weg zur Krippe"
Leichtes Singspiel zu biblischem Text für den Gottesdienst von Kindern und Erwachsenen
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Lyric book
Item no.: 425068
per quattro cori
Chorpartitur für Chöre I und II
for: 6 soloists (SSATTB), 3 mixed choirs (SATB, SSAT, ATBarB), instruments colla parte, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 424691
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1215620
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Bassoon 2
Item no.: 237613
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1085380
for: Mixed choir (3–4 parts) a cappella
Item no.: 373077
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 459644
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 146259
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 188123
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 416369
for: Mixed choir (SATB), harp [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 1355926
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 557025
Eine Sammlung geistlicher und weltlicher Lieder durch das Kirchenjahr
Vol. 2 - Weihnachten
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 562571
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 242642
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 824205
Magnifikat
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 236143
A Chamber Cantata for Christmas
for: Mixed choir a cappella
CD
Item no.: 1552745
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 825739
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 367011
"in nativitate Domini"
Orchesterfassung
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 684750
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 333321
Weihnachtskantate
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236163
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 236103
Herrn Kantor Peter Drichel in Freundschaft zugeeignet
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 230813
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 230486
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 230402
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