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.
from: The Messiah, 2nd Part, No. 31 F major
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra [organ]
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Item no.: 236033
for Mixed Choir (SSABar) and Piano
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
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Item no.: 679695
for Mixed Choir (SATB) and Piano
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
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Item no.: 679687
for two-part Choir and Piano – Words based on a Traditional Nursery Rhyme
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
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Item no.: 679684
for two-part Mixed Choir and Piano
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
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Item no.: 679654
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [keyboard/guitar]
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Item no.: 672220
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
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Item no.: 931737
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
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Item no.: 930013
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
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Item no.: 929061
religious and spiritual songs
Gospel Mass for 1-2 Treble Voices (SA), speaker and instrumental accompaniment ad lib.
for: Women's chori (1–2 equal voices ); narrator, instruments ad lib.
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Item no.: 301342
for: Male choir, orchestra
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Item no.: 117478
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
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Item no.: 630187
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
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Item no.: 691857
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), accordion [organ]
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Item no.: 691718
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
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Item no.: 340008
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
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Item no.: 120641
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 837473
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 836762
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 128773
for: Women's choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1582361
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1558746
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi), organ
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Item no.: 1552723
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1645303
for mixed choir (SABar) and Organ
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
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Item no.: 617354
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
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Item no.: 695848
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
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Item no.: 695845
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
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Item no.: 1117551
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
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Item no.: 981150
for: Choir
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Item no.: 806786
for: School class
Buch + CD
Item no.: 806492
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566980
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
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Item no.: 1566874
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566836
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566835
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566733
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1556983
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813167
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801159
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
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Item no.: 685955
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1020468
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019619
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815619
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809897
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811439
for: School class
Buch + CD
Item no.: 811002
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812459
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807801
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805700
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