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 (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907474
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 901747
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 901579
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1354139
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 337741
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799507
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798411
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002377
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 185935
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 612122
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 183712
for: Mixed choir [children's choir] (3 voices), string quartet
Score
Item no.: 103184
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202836
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116959
for: Big band; mixed choir (SATB) ad lib.
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 1566983
for: Concert band; male choir (TTBB) ad lib.
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 1563607
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Audio-CD
Item no.: 341034
for: Mixed choir (SATB), cello, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1713831
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 642481
Georg Rhau. Musikdrucke aus den Jahren 1538-1545, 1 (Gesamtausgabe, Urtextausgabe) (Complete edition, Urtext)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 115782
Wie der Hirsch schreit
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
in German only
for: 5 soloists (STTBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 235286
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 216820
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 342143
(Orgelsolomesse)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 199978
Motet
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 287208
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1156934
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1156738
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1156717
for: Choir
Buch + CD
Item no.: 1158514
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1158466
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1158438
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1158300
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1158189
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1160448
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160388
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1160324
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1160304
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1160281
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1159542
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1159522
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159487
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1159226
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1159192
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1159056
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1158996
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