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) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 288424
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 149515
for: 5 soloists (SMezTTB), narrator, male choir (TTBB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra,
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 191461
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 186541
for: Children's choir [women's choir (SSAA)] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 128600
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 111442
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 111435
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 111413
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204375
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204319
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB)
Chorstimme
Item no.: 204271
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204197
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203548
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203494
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 203467
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203410
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203014
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202975
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 202908
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202904
for: Children's choir (SSMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202418
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 199276
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, narrator, flexible ensemble
Piano score
Item no.: 352640
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 486090
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 351457
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204923
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204521
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280968
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280942
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280576
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280547
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 280507
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280479
for: Male choir (TTBB); brass winds (2 trumpets, 2 trombones) ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 280401
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280357
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280315
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 280236
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 280232
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 101768
Oper in drei Akten
Band 8,1 (kritischer Bericht) (Critical Report)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 101756
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 101755
Der Ring des Nibelungen (WWV 86) Ein Bühnenfestspiel für 3 Tage und einen Vorabend (Bd. 10-13)
Band 13/III (mit kritischem Bericht) (with critical report)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 107170
for: Mixed choir (SAATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 649083
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 647724
(Psalm 130)
from Seven Gates of Jerusalem (1996/2013)
for: 3 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 636172
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Orgelauszug
Item no.: 633209
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 633012
for: Women's choir (SMezA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 553058
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