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), organ
Book
Item no.: 890306
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 888833
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 888554
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 923597
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 766041
(The Seagulls)
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 1560807
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343411
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 584571
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 838251
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 838902
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 836457
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 834546
Schulmusical für 6- bis 12-Jährige
Gesamtausgabe (Texte, Lieder, Klavier)
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Songbook
Item no.: 158020
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 907970
for: Choir (1 voice), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 905248
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 902850
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 900719
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 897709
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 896273
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 887747
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 881136
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 879578
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 876866
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 876330
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 873776
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 873599
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 870096
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 866650
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 866017
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 864108
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 861705
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 911263
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 910865
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 840213
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087066
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984547
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 764819
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 683986
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1159520
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1157150
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1155817
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154814
completed and edited by Frieder Bernius & Uwe Wolf
Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1714651
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1714643
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 193549
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 302499
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 345035
for: Women's choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1639832
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