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) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1667766
"Christkindlmesse"
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 776110
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126679
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855908
4-Hand Piano Part
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 859421
Neuinstrumentierung (2001)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Ensemble score Violin 1,2
Item no.: 690347
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 938451
3 Octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 859504
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1530410
for: Mixed choir [women's choir/male choir] (4 voices)
Item no.: 148525
Flexi-Band [4 Parts] & Chorus SATB, Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Percussions & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (4 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 599302
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1219659
Vier Bearbeitungen aus drei Jahrhunderten
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score
Item no.: 330166
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909747
Weihnachtslied
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 555884
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1664284
BR-CPEB E 4
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 644500
Kantate für den 2. Sonntag nach Epiphanias
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 463884
Ein musikalischer Adventskalender
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1646422
11 traditionelle europäische Advents- und Weihnachtslieder
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score, online media (app)
Item no.: 1610914
57 Choraufnahmen zur Advents- und Weihnachtszeit
for: Mixed choir a cappella
CD
Item no.: 499138
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 477539
Flexi-Band [5 Parts] + Chorus [SATB], Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Percussions & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 598150
SATB Score
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856781
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918611
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 133035
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 578916
Weihnachtssätze für Vokal- und Instrumentalensemble
for: Choir (2 voices) a cappella
2 Scores
Item no.: 489617
Dreistimmige Chorsätze für den Gottesdienst
Edition Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 559861
Version for choir of equal voices and chamber ensemble
for: Women's choir (1 part), chamber ensemble
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 687452
Ein Auswahl weihnachtlicher Weisen aus der ganzen Welt
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book, CD
Item no.: 373335
16 neue Chorlieder für die Vorweihnachtszeit für drei gleiche Stimmen (SAA)
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1689131
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1655691
Christmas Cantata
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1656583
Christmas Cantata
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1123795
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 459645
for: Women's choir a cappella
Chorpartitur Ausgabe C
Item no.: 364157
Weihnachtsmotette
aus "Paradisus musicus"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 335219
BR-CPEB E 4
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Klavierauszug XL
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 681279
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Item no.: 456690
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 246287
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 1688191
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 565890
BuxWV 52
Chorpartitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 234317
Chorsaetze Zum Kirchenjahresende Und Zum Advent
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 551610
Ein Singspiel für die Weihnachtszeit mit Motiven aus Lukas 16,19-31
Die biblischen Singspiele von Ulrich Gohl sind ein Versuch, Kinder und Erwachsene mitgestaltend am Gottesdienst zu beteiligen.
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Lyric book
Item no.: 231410
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 554203
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 455861
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