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.
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122478
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124753
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123872
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124927
R1667
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122603
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 826681
A Christmas Jubilee
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 823550
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 823531
Choral Moments for Fall and Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123510
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 174662
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1215621
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 245899
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 311969
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Item no.: 311870
Alpenlaendisches Liedgut
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 397297
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 911038
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959934
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 938112
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121536
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 552090
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388021
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Performance score for strings
Item no.: 145554
Volkslieder für Kinderchor, zum Teil mit Blockflöten und Schlagwerk
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 290605
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122604
Edition Vieweg (Musikschätze vergangener Zeiten)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 292120
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 291718
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 824820
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823354
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
mit Kopierrecht
Item no.: 472371
Christmas cantata HoWV II.13
– Graduated prices on request –
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 772198
Pastorella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 211999
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 643345
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Set of parts
Item no.: 647944
Kantate zum Sonntag Estomihi
Harmoniestimmen
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 233932
Cantata for the 2nd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 232959
Pastorella
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 552484
Weihnachts-Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 trumpets, strings, timpani, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1160926
für Soli, Chor, 2 Trompeten, Pauken, 2 Trompeten, Pauken, Streicher und Orgel
Musik aus Ostbayern Heft 7a
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 684863
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609908
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 825187
Kantate zum 2. Weihnachtstag
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben (revidiert 2017)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 679023
Magnifikat
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230778
for: Winds class (flexible winds ensemble); choir ad lib.
Single part Alto saxophone
Item no.: 291205
MH 72
Chorpartitur
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 237796
Weihnachtskantate
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 237623
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235661
Thueringer Chorblaetter
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 346095
Heft 1
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 418549
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