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.
in G major
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ
Score
Item no.: 232398
for: Mixed choir (SATB); 4 melodic instruments (colla parte), double bass, organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 232020
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 231827
for: 2 favorit choirs (SATB, SATB), double bass, organ; 8 instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 231743
for: 2 mixed choirs (Fav. SATB, SATB), double bass, orgam; 2 mixed choirs (Cap. SSMsB, SSMsB), 8 melodic instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 231711
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 231401
for: Mixed choir (SABar), 2 melodic instruments, organ; bass ad lib.
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Item no.: 231024
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
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Item no.: 230960
for: Soloists (SATB), mixed choir, string-instrument, basso continuo
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Item no.: 230927
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
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Item no.: 230615
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 103492
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 150463
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 150330
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
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Item no.: 148552
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 145919
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
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Item no.: 145231
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 145118
Offertory for the Easter Sunday
Sacred music from Salzburg
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 186729
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
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Item no.: 186375
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 183605
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 180973
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 241600
for: Soloists, mixed choir, ensemble, organ
Score
Item no.: 113600
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 132982
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 131342
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 131317
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 131316
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 131299
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 124515
for: Children's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 138971
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 378373
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 378322
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205750
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 157861
for: Male choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1678300
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 562717
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 385663
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 385653
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 894364
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893821
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893486
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 892758
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 891751
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 890566
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 889040
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 886434
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 465839
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 471544
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