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: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805545
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805459
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802136
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4115
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 6104
for: Children's choir (SA), orchestra
Score, piano reduction, solo parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1450
for: 3 voices (SAB) [mixed choir (SAB)], basso continuo
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1382
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2463
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2387
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 342318
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 800796
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804775
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804378
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 798368
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798367
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 800138
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799995
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 798923
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798763
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 800635
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816508
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 413279
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 931179
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 489457
Ein Singspiel zu Weihnachten
für Kinderchor, Klarinette, Viola, Violoncello und Klavier
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Set of parts (instruments)
Item no.: 583596
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Piano reduction
Item no.: 557131
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score, CD
Item no.: 177246
for: Male choir (TTB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 775088
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 899822
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 242994
for: Children's choir, actors, instruments
Score
Item no.: 632581
for: 2 solists (SA), mixed choir (SABar), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 334673
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 224926
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 153799
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 139201
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 321911
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 134954
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 556858
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 321945
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 322086
Cantata for Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1161437
Chorleiterband mit CD
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir book, CD
Item no.: 607799
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 166964
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 871762
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 166187
for: Children's choir (2 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850658
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 315068
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