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 (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909577
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1317940
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 768127
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 655497
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 907336
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 893971
B minor BWV 103
Cantata for the Sunday of Jubilate
for: 2 soloists (AT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 233588
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 227299
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3259
for: Soloist (bass), orchestra; male choir (TTBB) ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 375394
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1149507
for: Mixed choir (2 voices), keyboard [guitar]
Score
Item no.: 5011
for: Choir (2 voices) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5003
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4001
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745693
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 923674
HWV 54
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 550475
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695256
for: 3 soloists (SABar), mixed choir (SATB), children's choir, orchestra
Score (facsimile hardcover)
Item no.: 214271
Traditional (Vertrauen und Hoffnung)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730188
for SATB choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 743853
Choral Music of Our Time
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 750207
for: Male choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 738971
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760252
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760243
Broadway Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802773
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 262387
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532736
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532843
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532626
Madrigal for mixed chorus (SATB) a cappella
Choral Music South Africa
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 676324
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 347659
(from Les Misérables)
Broadway Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 291365
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810845
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 377861
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 857680
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 641120
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 417439
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 876887
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 322820
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 322112
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 633560
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 364640
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 909427
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 906452
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 330477
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB)
Choir book
Item no.: 274749
from Matilda the Musical
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 745166
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