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) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 910653
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1539533
for: Mixed choir (SAATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 649083
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 647724
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1546322
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 907060
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 647727
(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 a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 622202
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 263529
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 463592
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 445053
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809791
for: Mixed choir (4 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 413191
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [folk music band]
Set of parts
Item no.: 413189
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 633012
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 616913
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 620700
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 180632
for: Mixed choir (4 voices) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 157983
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1544434
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 691303
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 691302
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 661449
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 134724
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 663571
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 864227
for: Mixed choir (SSAATB), piano
Score, 10 Choir scores, Piano accompaniment
Item no.: 496625
for: Women's choir (SA) a cappella
Ensemble score
Item no.: 308008
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 283366
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 276853
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 276851
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1539518
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043302
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043288
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 770371
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 687857
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 625459
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 292352
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 174747
from the Oratorio Messiah HWV 56
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284298
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1582062
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 659902
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 647728
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 487870
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 486090
for: 5 soloists (SMezTTB), narrator, male choir (TTBB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra,
Study score
Item no.: 483092
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 464377
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