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.
Ein unterhaltsames Herbstmusical für 7- bis 11-Jährige
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Helbling Mini-Musicals (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Children's choir, actors, instruments
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Item no.: 580455
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ
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Item no.: 580175
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
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Item no.: 580135
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 605984
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
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Item no.: 605283
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 602316
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
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Item no.: 601429
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
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Item no.: 587419
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
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Item no.: 619301
for: Children's choir (2 parts), piano; rhythm group (guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
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Item no.: 618842
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 618489
for: Mixed choir (1 voice) [the parish]; instruments ad lib.
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Item no.: 617481
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
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Item no.: 616800
for: Choir (1-3 voices), actors, rhythm group; trumpet, saxophone, trombone ad lib.
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Item no.: 614212
for: Women's choir (SSA), 2 violins, basso continuo
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Item no.: 613077
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 610643
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 661363
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 661361
for: Mixed choir, instruments
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Item no.: 661284
for: Children's choir, the parish, narrator, melody instrument, piano
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Item no.: 661247
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 660177
for: 2 narrators, 2 soloists, mixed choir, bass guitar, instruments
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Item no.: 660142
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 660120
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
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Item no.: 657341
for: Children's choir (2 voices), piano
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Item no.: 656679
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAM), the parish, flute, strings, organ
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Item no.: 690121
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAM), the parish, strings, organ
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Item no.: 690098
Madrigal on a poem (Unruhvoll und reiselüstern) by Hermann Hesse
for: Mixed choir (SMezATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 688564
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 633816
for: Mixed choir (5 voices), basso continuo
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Item no.: 633677
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
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Item no.: 633424
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
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Item no.: 631213
for: Choir, piano
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Item no.: 630770
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
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Item no.: 576573
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
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Item no.: 576475
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 565842
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
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Item no.: 565035
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
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Item no.: 565031
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
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Item no.: 564639
for: 2 solo voices, mixed choir, organ
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Item no.: 563934
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
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Item no.: 563887
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 283405
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 266132
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 261530
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
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Item no.: 279195
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 275173
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
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Item no.: 272695
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
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Item no.: 781383
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