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: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Songbook, Playback-CD
Item no.: 350962
for: Women's choir (SSAA); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 343615
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Score
Item no.: 691675
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 345347
Weihnachtslieder und festliche Chöre
für Männer- (TTBB), Frauen- (SSA) und gemischte Chöre (SATB)
for: Choir, piano
Choir book, CD
Item no.: 673816
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 245776
for: Male choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 672095
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317756
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815168
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811533
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 672178
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 682347
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 321704
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660800
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 463347
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1634263
6 jazzy arrangements of Christmas carols for voices (1-4) and piano,vocal part
for: 1–4 voices [choir], piano
Choir score
Item no.: 280875
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Score
Item no.: 498354
for: Mixed choir, piano
CD
Item no.: 1015033
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1701377
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1018767
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 357055
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 607481
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 210603
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 148332
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 681008
Cantatas I–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 326291
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 781082
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Item no.: 205754
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 691770
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1747697
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1015364
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 485198
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 764249
Pachelbel's Canon mixed with Traditional Carols
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 678417
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746043
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746034
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746033
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745969
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; saxophone, vibraphone ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745925
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695715
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 364568
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 762952
Alfred Archive Edition
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 681498
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 769802
for: Mixed choir (SATB), oboe, cello
Score
Item no.: 311841
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 473113
for: Mixed choir (SABar), 2 pianos
Score
Item no.: 1668492
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