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); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918334
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002952
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985385
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985348
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 269043
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1005162
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1354392
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1077885
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1077710
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1077349
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1154836
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1151803
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1157954
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1155953
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1155127
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1151089
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1668116
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 322038
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 321903
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321852
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 278810
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 135152
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 883717
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 872326
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 875622
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 869773
for: Women's choir (SSA); piano/organ [2 violins, cello] ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 692839
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 554191
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 429502
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124322
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1717207
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 905053
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317402
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 317301
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 899430
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 898108
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 898092
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317751
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1671784
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812314
for: Male choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 373447
Weihnachtsmotette
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1651555
Maritimes Advents- und Weihnachtslied
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 633553
12 Lieder für Advent, Weihnachten und Neujahr in leichten Sätzen
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 729136
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 656480
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SAA); guitar [keyboard] ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 175316
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1147292
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 196592
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