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.
Cantata for the 1st Sunday after Epiphany – "Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren"
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben (revised edition)
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 681136
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 677101
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 657036
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 421945
Actus tragicus. Trauermusik
BWV 106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233629
for: Women's choir (SS/SA) [mixed choir (SSB/SAB)], 2 violins, basso continuo; viola ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 646425
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 584604
Wedding cantata
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 666740
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 665326
Cantata for the 8th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 662993
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 661349
Cantata for the 18th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bachausgaben
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 661119
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 662612
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 365143
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 345066
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 136280
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 291089
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 777481
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1562029
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318177
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 550815
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 486704
from the Musical "Grease"
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746332
Nr. 2 aus: Four Songs at Year's End
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1677306
for mixed voices (SATB) and piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1677850
Cantata for funeral service / Purification of Mary.
Reconstruction Klaus Hofmann
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1671981
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 550827
Folk
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330911
A holistic and integrative approach to group vocal development
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 951760
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103571
Companion
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 919536
The Poetry of Faith Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121086
for SATB Voices and Keyboard Accompaniment
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1677374
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343076
The Music of Heather Sorenson
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1556741
Secular Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 670406
für Frauenchor
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 679825
The Solid Rock
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1556287
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1610915
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964739
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1022304
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella, Instrumentalbegleitung (Band/Gitarre/Klavier) ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1549933
A Cantata-Musical for Unison Voices and Piano
with guitar chords
english text
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1667421
Pavane Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168273
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660708
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 682353
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 682281
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 371931
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