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 (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 413295
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 307539
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309662
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 307050
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 193293
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 191757
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 489209
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 675554
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1627981
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1627476
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 879105
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625875
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 443877
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823145
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097428
Kantaten I - VI
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 587156
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096709
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097122
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097120
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960309
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960292
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960108
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960088
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959924
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960545
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960447
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 310502
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309508
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 175506
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309423
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309406
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309167
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309165
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309131
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 171919
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309532
for: Children's choir, instruments
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 354653
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148786
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202713
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204755
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ [melodic instruments]
Part 3 in C, Bass Clef
Item no.: 204538
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 899862
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1016500
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1075304
Orchesterfassung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, 2 clarinets (B-flat), 2 horns (C), 2 trumpets (B-flat), 2 tenor horns, timpani, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 499742
Orchesterfassung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, 2 clarinets (B-flat), 2 horns (C), 2 trumpets (B-flat), 2 tenor horns, timpani, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo, organ
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 499745
Weihnachtsmotette
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 662950
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