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), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167750
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1667608
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1667166
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893976
for: Male choir
Item no.: 472666
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806951
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 900109
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 199963
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 947216
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Book
Item no.: 929724
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 941281
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 934176
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747793
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747542
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747504
4. Im Stall bei Esel, Schaf und Rind (Frankreich, 13. Jh.)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742402
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 742327
Chorheft Nr. 9 - Am Weihnachtsabend
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751753
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751467
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751465
Polish carol for mixed choir (SATB)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 759234
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738388
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761222
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761219
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 795701
(Ecuador)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726426
(Mexico)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726423
(Italy)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726415
(Croatia)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726408
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738794
as well as songs for advent and winter season
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1664423
(Peru)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756221
(Ireland)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756212
for SATB choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 779579
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1435
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3535
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); basso continuo [organ] ad lib.
Score, part (pdf download)
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for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo [organ] ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 4425
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score, choir score, parts (pdf download)
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for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano [organ] ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 2420
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
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for: Choir
Set of parts
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for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
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for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
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for: Choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 1338644
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