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: School class
Buch + CD
Item no.: 808809
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808426
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805287
for: School class
Buch + CD
Item no.: 805237
for: School class
Buch + CD
Item no.: 805142
for: School class
Score, Parts
Item no.: 803562
for: Choir
Play-along CD 1
Item no.: 803343
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807370
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807291
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 807285
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804313
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804080
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815509
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 815367
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815364
for: Children's choir (2 parts), piano; rhythm group (guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score, Parts, CD
Item no.: 811453
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807888
for: School class
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 807872
for: School class
Score, Parts
Item no.: 807852
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807615
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808363
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 808220
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808077
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 810775
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810716
for: School class
Set of parts
Item no.: 809924
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862156
for: 6 soloists (SSAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 686658
for: Children's choir (School class /music school group)
3 Music lesson books, DVD
Item no.: 621835
for: Women's choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 635818
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 103911
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 837305
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano; 2 flutes ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 884149
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628526
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 922495
from "My Fair Lady" for male choir and piano
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 1
Item no.: 146240
from "My Fair Lady" for male choir and piano
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 146237
from "My Fair Lady" for male choir (TTBB) and piano
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 344307
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 302454
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 1677025
from "My Fair Lady" for male choir (TTBB) and piano
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 2
Item no.: 1658287
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 488901
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 900700
The music of Johnny Cash
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 473069
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1646230
for: Women's choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 562705
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