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
Choir score
Item no.: 808579
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807318
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807007
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804312
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804248
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804241
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804012
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804485
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815150
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812140
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811207
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811095
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807566
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809875
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
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for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810190
for: 5 voices (TTBarBarB) [Male choir] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1671073
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1667195
for: Women's choir (SA), harp
Score
Item no.: 349331
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1153166
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1158535
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 499090
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 1565843
for: Big band; mixed choir (SATB) ad lib.
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 208958
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 341667
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816283
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 864566
for: Children's choir, narrator, actors, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 663344
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939506
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 630899
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 740738
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 742331
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733390
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 795698
Christmas motet
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 795688
(Germany)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726430
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 722379
Sleepers Wake
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Partitur enthält Orgelstimme
Item no.: 755242
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761223
(France)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756210
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751472
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 477553
for: Mixed choir (SAATTBB) a cappella
Score
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 477412
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