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 (SSAATTBB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 560263
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 586694
Psalms 47 and 142
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 445046
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 429276
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 207829
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 198633
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 224555
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902948
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 369317
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 355127
CD for use with the SSA Voicing complete and accompaniment only
ShowTrax CD
for: Women's choir, piano
CD
Item no.: 194411
A Requiem "for those we love"
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 288684
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 184466
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), 2 pianos
Score
Item no.: 352331
for St. Cecilia's Day
for: 6 soloists (SSAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 392265
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 183722
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 868008
"The harp that once thro' Tarra's halls"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [harp, string orchestra]
Score
Item no.: 352057
for: Children's choir (2 voices), pian; strings ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 361719
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 198634
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 447136
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 330478
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 301476
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 177022
Opera in two acts op. 50
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 302521
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 143373
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 471515
for mixed chorus (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668015
Nr. 2 aus: Four Songs at Year's End
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1677306
for mixed voices (SATB) and piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1677850
Cantata for funeral service / Purification of Mary.
Reconstruction Klaus Hofmann
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1671981
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 550827
Folk
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330911
A holistic and integrative approach to group vocal development
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 951760
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103571
Companion
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 919536
The Poetry of Faith Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121086
for SATB Voices and Keyboard Accompaniment
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1677374
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343076
The Music of Heather Sorenson
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1556741
Secular Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 670406
für Frauenchor
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 679825
The Solid Rock
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1556287
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1610915
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964739
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1022304
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella, Instrumentalbegleitung (Band/Gitarre/Klavier) ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1549933
A Cantata-Musical for Unison Voices and Piano
with guitar chords
english text
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1667421
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