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: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 381505
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 618855
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB); 7 instruments colla parte, basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 278999
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 277205
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1004746
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1004551
for: Women's choir (SSAA), organ
Score
Item no.: 893906
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 866506
An uplifting Psalm for Thanksgiving and all seasons of the year (2012)
for Soprano solo (optional), SATB, organ and trumpet (optional)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; solo voice (soprano), trumpet ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 655438
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), saxophone quartet
Score
Item no.: 655097
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 583465
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 689671
for: Women's choir (SSAA), organ
Score
Item no.: 687290
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 686925
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano; oboe ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 694472
for: Mixed choir (SATB), cello, 2 percussions
Score
Item no.: 642360
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 909152
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 908420
for: Mixed choir (SATB), children's choir, organ, small orchestra
Choir part
Item no.: 637729
for mixed choir (SATB) and orchestra
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1566
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 680495
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 929247
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; brass winds, timpani ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 929103
for: Mixed choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 855959
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 915889
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 909573
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 919890
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 365882
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 1042931
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 161667
for: Women's choir, organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 161598
Festival Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1701367
Choral Exploration
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1701364
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1681975
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1672434
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1672422
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 887439
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816020
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423235
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 382973
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 119199
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 424910
for: Male choir, guitar
Score
Item no.: 638442
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1161787
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1161783
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 120473
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1668470
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1664488
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano; cello ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1654702
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