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: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber ensemble
Piano reduction
Item no.: 683186
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 681545
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 344712
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 445122
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 444986
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 234331
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 233061
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 334533
"in nativitate Domini"
– Graduated prizes on request –
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 237546
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 136354
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 666521
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 423603
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423339
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 422131
for: 2 mixed choirs (SSAB, ATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 194659
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 422906
for: Women's choir (SS/SA) [mixed choir (SSB/SAB)], 2 violins, basso continuo; viola ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 422007
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 369781
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 310856
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 228902
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 928396
for: Mixed choir (SATB); flexible ensemble ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 602593
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 592567
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 592563
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (4 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 599306
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594529
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595172
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595170
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595162
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score (with piano part)
Item no.: 462812
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1269829
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1269827
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1269811
for: Mixed choir, piano
Sheet music, Download (mp3)
Item no.: 1232645
for: Mixed choir, 4 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1258036
for: Mixed choir, 4 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1258024
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string quartet; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1258012
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 woodwinds (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1257970
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 648471
Weihnachtskantate
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1632577
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375377
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374260
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1747693
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ, melodic instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 1669314
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124954
Weihnachtliche Motette für dreistimmigen gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1664787
Navidad criolla
Kantate
for: Soloists, mixed choir, children's choir, piano [organ]; instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1670898
Navidad en Latinoamérica 5
for: Women's choir (SSA/SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1015473
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