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.
Cantata for the 1st Sunday after Trinity
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233243
Cantata for Whit Sunday BWV 74
after the second setting by Bach
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233223
Cantata for the 24th Sunday after Trinity
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233024
BWV 66
Cantata for the Second Easter Day
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 oboes, bassoon, violin solo, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 184795
for: Favorit choir (SSSATTBarB), mixed choir (SATB), 4 viole da gamba, basso continuo [organ]
Score
Item no.: 425139
Cantata for the 21st Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232937
Cantata for the inauguration of a new town council
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ solo
Score
Item no.: 232879
Cantata for the 14th Sunday after Trinity
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben · Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232824
"Christ lag in Todes Banden"
Cantata for Easter Sunday
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 232734
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo (organ); 5 winds ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 232659
Cantata for the 8th Sunday after Trinity
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 155625
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 470990
Cantata for 24th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 463886
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 431990
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 284906
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 231896
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); instruments colla parte, basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 231811
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 154218
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 673505
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 369840
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 1664174
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1557014
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 585744
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 561573
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1672643
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 229034
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 194338
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 1149365
for: Women's choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 649796
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985780
for: Mixed choir (SATB); soloist (soprano) ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1655477
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1559694
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1008893
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 861954
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 690952
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 260621
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 606241
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1702395
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 777922
Eric Whitacre Choral
Shadow Water Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 697614
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 797788
Sing With The Choir
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 658998
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 938516
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 647716
Five simple and singable Gospel Favourites for two-part young choirs and piano
for: Children's choir (2 voices), piano
Piano score, online audio (playback)
Item no.: 468235
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1747695
for mixed chorus (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1677375
für Männerchor a cappella
mit Klavierstimme zur Probenzwecken
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1667838
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