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.
Opera in three acts
Critical new edition with the recitatives later composed by Ernest Guiraud
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 103711
for: Choral
Item no.: 1562365
for: Mixed choir, melodic instruments, rhythm group (piano/keyboard, guitar, bass, percussion)
Score (anthology)
Item no.: 619270
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 205041
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 767530
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 344592
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 273565
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 188253
KV 427 (417a)
Klavierauszug (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 116531
Commedia in due atti
Version in Italian and German
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 558176
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 560221
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 463471
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 194141
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 185471
Melodramma in quatro atti
2nd version (Paris 1865)
Opera Vocal Score Series (Ricordi)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389024
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389007
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 170823
Eight songs for eight-part vocal groups
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 610870
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 282561
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 307745
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 656576
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 100622
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 102763
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 289031
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 295460
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 908342
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 188695
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) II/5 (Gesamtausgabe, Urtextausgabe) (Complete edition, Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 215847
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392108
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 176788
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 607378
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 660887
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 634432
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 495276
1892
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe (Complete edition)
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 443510
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 564546
completed and edited by Frieder Bernius & Uwe Wolf
Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 665327
First critical edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ [harmonium] ad lib.
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 684481
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Conductor's score, audio CD
Item no.: 460809
Urtext based on the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 763305
for: 3 soloists (SSA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 696380
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 223901
for: 2 voices (SA), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 154250
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 628054
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 276464
Klavierpartitur nur zusammen mit Chorpartituren erhältlich
Chornoten für gemischten Chor a cappella oder mit Klavier
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 664842
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697512
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