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) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 369317
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 473301
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 486704
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 662612
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 184466
"The harp that once thro' Tarra's halls"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [harp, string orchestra]
Score
Item no.: 352057
British and irish Folk Songs for mixed Choir a cappella (in part with Piano)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1670901
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 1702809
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; violin ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1562545
for: Women's choir (SA) [Mixed choir (SAM)], piano
Piano score
Item no.: 649385
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 889530
Psalms 47 and 142
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 445046
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 366778
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 581511
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1687783
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 364104
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 349387
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1209089
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 223587
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 745400
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 638743
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318177
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317518
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 635245
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 224555
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 812247
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 983023
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 319620
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 245394
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1551263
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 348168
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 223297
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 136280
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804342
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 616686
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 575581
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 768112
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 766166
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777564
Disney Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 696938
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 777758
for: Mixed choir (SATBarBarB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 777724
from "Mary Poppins Returns"
Disney Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 745573
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1551675
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532922
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532842
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 143373
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 377857
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