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), harp [piano]
Score
Item no.: 1549898
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]; cello ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 246395
from "Josua"
for: 3 soloists (SSA/TTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 235506
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [orchestra]
Organ score
Item no.: 470445
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1015004
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) [6 voices], 2 violins, basso continuo; instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 603998
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SABar), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 302033
for: Accordion orchestra; mixed choir (SATB) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 616362
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 292401
for: Children's choir (SA)
Choir score
Item no.: 256272
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Book
Item no.: 485464
for: Women's choir [male choir] a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 409499
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 485018
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 279333
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 768982
for: Women's choir (SA) [Mixed choir (SAM)], piano
Piano score, additional parts (C/B), Playback-CD (mp3
Item no.: 770274
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 418647
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Stimmen-Set (Streicher)
Item no.: 587040
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 409572
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 273843
nach dem gleichnamigen Kanon
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 759467
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 123458
Christmas Cantata with 14 choral songs from Latin America
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Score
Item no.: 1015368
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins [treble recorders], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2599
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 334000
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 609409
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 333053
for: Mixed choir (SATB), combo
Score
Item no.: 665356
Midnight Mass for Christmas
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 662065
New Bach Edition (NBA). II/6
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 185389
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 365971
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 5746
for: Mixed choir, cornett, 3 trombones [strings], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 4689
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 576676
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 139084
for: Mixed choir [5 voices] (SSATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 2 violas ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 229709
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 279276
for: Women's choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1671982
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins [treble recorders], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2754
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 579721
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 225271
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 292698
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 490347
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 669184
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 473344
2nd version with the 4 inserts from the E-flat major version (transposed)
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116691
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ
Score
Item no.: 370390
for: Children's choir (SA) [2 voices], 2 violins [recorders (AA)], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2282