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), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 215874
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 148308
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 380699
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382689
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 633885
for: 2-4 voices [choir], instruments
Set of parts
Item no.: 158137
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 3 trombones ad lib.
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 430844
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 116209
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115786
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115762
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116268
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Lyric book
Item no.: 153323
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Chorstimme
Item no.: 300993
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ [melodic instruments]
Score
Item no.: 204529
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 634763
for: Mixed choir (SABar), flute, oboe, strings
Choir score
Item no.: 617741
for: Mixed choir, wind ensembles
Score
Item no.: 409575
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Conductor score
Item no.: 689960
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 929581
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803936
for: Male choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 312587
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804440
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 800478
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167389
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]; orchestra ad lib.
Organ score
Item no.: 345358
Ein Weihnachtsmusical
für Soli, Darsteller, Chor und Instrumente
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Piano score
Item no.: 681624
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 332735
for: Children's choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 165523
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1534557
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 812681
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811298
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810633
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810085
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808316
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 801498
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167390
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1002069
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 348553
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811385
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1107863
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810552
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984673
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1289381
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1289369