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 (SATBarB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 777782
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 682173
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 659860
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 658263
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 580491
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 562880
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 497887
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 603458
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1702447
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1633893
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1087177
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 778000
for: Voice [choir (2 voices)], piano
Score
Item no.: 1654265
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1355638
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 682730
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book, CD
Item no.: 985310
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 745124
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533015
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1532749
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532659
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532589
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532588
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532563
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532372
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820541
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812186
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812113
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811701
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 810632
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807513
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 806261
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802946
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 798077
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746263
from the Musical "The Wiz"
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746254
from the musical "Something Rotten!"
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746197
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 564060
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 556859
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 473076
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 473067
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 347496
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 812444
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 376201
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 864032
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1713586
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 798193
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 798046
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1712079
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