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: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 681738
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117227
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 378879
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 294187
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 459735
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 283395
for: Mixed choir, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 243424
for: Children's choir [women's choir], orchestra
Score
Item no.: 170588
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 362850
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 166563
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 445630
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 690859
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 772237
for: Male choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 874036
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1618585
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809682
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1169627
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1169476
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808672
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806550
Christmas Songs for female voices
for: Solo voice (soprano), women's choir (SMezA)
Score
Item no.: 850967
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808777
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 801358
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 801314
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 965512
for: Mixed choir (SATB), oboe, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1023
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1169527
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 815351
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814683
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814274
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808249
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804896
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803635
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 312260
for: Children's choir (SMezA), piano
Score
Item no.: 466353
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 209845
for: Children's choir [women's choir] (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 139685
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1265987
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (4 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1264394
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (4 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1264383
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 177053
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2–3 parts)
Score
Item no.: 409323
Oratorium In Festum Nativitatis Christi (GraunWV Bv:IX:18)
Aufführungsmaterial leihweise direkt beim ortus Verlag
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 135810
for: 1–2 voices [children's choir]; guitar [keyboard] ad lib.
Songbook (melody, chords, lyrics)
Item no.: 1654330
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 woodwinds (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591043