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, strings
Score
Item no.: 549482
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 351093
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626077
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625743
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625592
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 364216
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 364215
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 490070
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 325975
for: Choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 877580
Cantata for the Feast of Annunciation Day
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 385520
Cantata for the Feast of Annunciation Day
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Violin 1 solo
Item no.: 385517
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
10 Choir scores
Item no.: 1628876
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823236
Responsoria ad Matutinum in nativitate Domini MH 639
Urtext-Ausgabe
for: Mixed choir, 2 violins, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 472590
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 868058
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1621054
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Item no.: 557613
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1019907
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 463458
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803172
for: Mixed choir (SATB), percussion
Single part Percussion
Item no.: 1652817
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 893207
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1151967
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1157323
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 628319
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152022
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1160045
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152245
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742443
"Das Volk, das im Finstern wandelt" (Jesaja 9)
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 746948
"Es will das Licht des Tages scheiden"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733371
Weihnachtslied aus Slowenien
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746846
3. Gloria (Polen)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746817
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 2
Item no.: 746709
for: Voices
Songbook
Item no.: 333880
Cantata for the 1st day of Christmas
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 227892
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 869438
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914072
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1208929
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1208790
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir part Soprano/Alto
Item no.: 202331
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Lyric book
Item no.: 160604
for: Children's choir, instruments
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 354650
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1149172
Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235824
Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235819
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 335363
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