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: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 800156
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1161311
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 768084
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 586687
for: Mixed choir a cappella
25 choir scores
Item no.: 693313
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 864805
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 862649
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812053
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798340
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1655253
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746035
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 119572
Choral Music of Our Time
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 750010
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3203
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 3114
Eine Kantate für junge Leute nach der Weihnachtsgeschichte von Charles Dickens
for: Children's choir
ChorSolo part(s)
Item no.: 1666827
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 768041
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746060
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760286
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 446912
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 421865
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 691688
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 691686
Aus England
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738241
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 317779
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 919699
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924385
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 663411
On December Five and Twenty
for two-part Mixed Chorus with Descant and Piano
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 680031
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra [organ]
Score
Item no.: 311759
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 215956
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 648314
for: Choir
Item no.: 862776
for: Children's choir, instruments
Music score, CD
Item no.: 632101
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745234
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799664
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 765976
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019632
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 149503
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 587473
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 797490
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 896492
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810522
Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235818
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 618714
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 680822
Arranged for choir and organ
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 606518
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 745996
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