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.: 1158787
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1158781
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1158683
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1158539
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1160048
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1160002
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159969
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1159920
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1159801
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1159778
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1159689
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159679
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1159668
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159562
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764838
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 477276
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 675074
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 675071
Cantata for the first Advent
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 146739
Cantata for the first Advent
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 145463
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 679535
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1149863
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1149745
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1149733
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1149709
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1149690
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1149637
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1149631
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1149604
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1150786
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1150783
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1150741
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1150526
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1150483
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1150425
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1150353
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1150277
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1150268
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1150220
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1150216
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1150021
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1149988
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1149975
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1151388
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1151337
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1151302
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1151253
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