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 a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 587480
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392524
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 354547
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 649834
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 375894
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 909633
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 722967
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 179890
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 908785
Große tragische Oper in 5 Akten WWV 49
Richard Wagner - Complete Works, Vol. 3/V
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 1546020
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1545859
for: 4 voices (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1545774
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1545700
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920451
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 890443
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 878316
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 877591
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 873462
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 864660
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 864641
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Buch
Item no.: 363936
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 332450
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 298977
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 148483
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920494
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 892179
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 878203
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 877805
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 619954
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 306981
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 306974
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 283392
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Ensemble score
Item no.: 181635
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 283462
for: Choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 211418
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 182097
Cantata for 12th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 684587
Potpourri goldener Evergreens
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 182795
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148988
nach dem Requiem für Chor STB, Viola und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SAM), violin [viola], organ [harmonium]
Score, solo part
Item no.: 1355790
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1147887
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148840
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1148836
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148553
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148259
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148234
for: Male choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 1024586
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, organ
Score
Item no.: 1023513
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