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
Chormusik des 19. Jahrhunderts
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings [organ]
Score
Item no.: 117238
Opera in three acts HWV 34
Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA) II/33
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 618297
Opera in three acts HWV 40
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 444421
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 586182
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 360091
for mixed choir a cappella
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for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 676355
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 272648
for: 3 choirs (SSAA, SATB, TTBB), string orchestra, prepared piano, tape
Study score
Item no.: 490038
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 486523
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 107018
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 362311
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 643425
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 444902
for: Choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 493046
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 281951
Keltische Messe nach geistlichen Texten aus Irland und Schotland für Chor und Folk-Band
zugleich Chorpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), Folk Band (violin, flute, harp, wheel fiddle, guitar, cello, drum)
Piano reduction
Item no.: 606245
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 255070
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2–3 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 371829
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 493521
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, violin
Choir score
Item no.: 480366
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 214244
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 576604
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 217431
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813289
für gem Chor und Orgel (Orchester ad lib)
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SABar), organ [orchestra, organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 658532
for: 4 soloists (SMezTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 631323
Opera buffa in four acts K. 492
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116419
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 582505
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 564911
For female Chor with 2 Horns and Harp op.17
Wind set (3 parts)
for: Women's choir (SA), 2 horns, harp
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 375107
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1562943
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 766119
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 359732
for: Children's choir
Songbook
Item no.: 687298
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 296486
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 166719
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 470979
Nicolai-Messe Hob. XXII:6
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 279288
for: Mixed choir (SATB), violin, viola, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 422922
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 422829
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 223372
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [4 voices (SATB)], piano [organ]
Piano score
Item no.: 101178
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 162246
Cantata for the feast of John the Baptist
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 673075
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 658385
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 432831
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 649551
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116689
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