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.
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CD-Pack
Item no.: 1001756
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1003560
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 886520
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1317161
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 375368
Ein Weihnachtslieder-Medley im Swing-Rhythmus
Sing & Play
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 204979
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1192862
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 364217
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320520
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 210129
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341526
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341948
for: 4 soloists (SSAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234737
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 370570
Cantata for the Feast of Annunciation Day
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 385522
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 309586
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 584860
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 562712
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1345965
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1617058
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895837
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 189440
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Single part for mallets
Item no.: 144978
Responsoria ad Matutinum in nativitate Domini MH 639
Urtext-Ausgabe
for: Mixed choir, 2 violins, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 472589
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1149695
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1159705
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1159404
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 680146
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
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for: Choir
Choir score
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for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 922577
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
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for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
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for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
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for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
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for: Soloist (soprano), women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Single part Percussion
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for: Women's choir (1 part), mixed choir (SATB), harp
Single part Harp
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for: Choir
Choir score
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for: Choir
Choir score
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